Example sentences of "[coord] be it [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Was he being charitable for once , or was it another attempt to get her out of Peter 's life ?
2 Nor is it flippant liberalism to point this out — though there may be significance in the fact that anyone who does so has immediately to excuse himself , as I find myself doing .
3 Nor is it any use to insist that you can conceive of what it is like for a knee which is not yours to be hurting .
4 Nor is it any use going with non-riding friends or family , unless riding is just one part of a sporting package which also includes walking and fishing for example , or even wind surfing or canoeing .
5 Nor was it some stranger come to drink and dance and lie with a man in a borrowed bed .
6 But that still leaves for the jury in submission , A , whether they used reasonable force yes reasonable to act , but was it reasonable force to act , was it a reasonable method of acting , by which I mean time of er , time of the incident .
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