Example sentences of "be it the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each FOND refers to the members of a family that are present within a file , be it the System or a Font/DA Mover file — also called a Suitcase . |
| 2 | She loves being by water , be it the river Dee or the sea . |
| 3 | General practitioners generally cope with whatever is thrown their way , be it the shift of complex clinical management of cases into the community with less hospitalisation , changes in hospital policy resulting in a shift of costs to the community budget , underfunding of secondary sector posts and beds , the 1990 general practitioner contract , or patients ' increased expectations in a cost cutting climate of health care . |
| 4 | Times change , I suppose — which is not to admit that fat generalisations about the Sixties , Seventies or Eighties are less problematic than statements about any other logical fiction , be it the nation , a salad , the MCC or whatever . |
| 5 | The animal , be it the rat in its maze of a chimpanzee gazing from a group of boxes to a clump of bananas hung just out of reach overhead , must reason out a course of action in its mind . |