Example sentences of "be it [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | I used to help with sticking the the er money onto the well this used to take about , you know , an hour all these kids did n't know what two pence was , did n't know what twenty pence was and ten pence and fifty pence and then we , they were in go about groups of seven and we get all this done then it would be assembly , then it 'll be games and then that 'll be it for the whole morning ! |
2 | Any re-establishment of government authority , be it under the old confessional dispensation or under a new Syrian-sponsored one , would not be comfortable for the Palestine refugee community , which by the turn of the century will number roughly 390,000 , given no significant population movements . |
3 | The refugees would necessarily be subject to whatever authority and jurisdiction control the area in which they live , be it in the Arab area or within Israel . ’ |
4 | Yeah that 's it on the same line . |
5 | That 's it for the first half . |
6 | Given that the index-linked gilt is a difficult investment to evaluate , is it worth the private investor buying via a specialist gilt fund or direct ? |
7 | Erin , how easy is it for the ordinary person to learn how to compute ? |
8 | Nuisances and abominations of all sorts are without scruple committed to the streets at any hour of the day of night , to await the morning visit of the scavenger to remove them : and happy indeed is it for the humble pedestrian if his eye and nose alone suffer from these ejectments ; happy indeed if he comes not in contact with them , as they make their unceremonious exit from window or door … |
9 | I think we 're all ship shape , so how lo how far is it on the other side ? |
10 | is it at the top end of the , it starts at the top end of the slope ? |
11 | When you or , when you order five hundred reams of paper , do you get five hundred reams and is it of the right quality from the sheets . |
12 | how high is it to the nearest metre . |
13 | Is it to the Holy Spirit , then , that I must assign Buddhism 's denial of the possibility of forgiveness , or communism 's cavalier attitude to truth and human life , or the self-satisfied man-centredness of much contemporary humanism ? |
14 | But nobody , how long is it since the last time we showed them in ? |
15 | I 've just p is it near the front door because I 've just put it back on her . |
16 | Is it in the right place ? |
17 | In the context of these questions , what is it in the brief history of White Western feminist criticism and theory that seems at odds with what is going on in the rest of the world ? |
18 | Not only is it in the national interest but it is in the interest of every industry , company , employer and employee . |
19 | Is it in the public interest that a public authority 's finances should be disrupted by wholly unexpected claims for repayment years after the money in question has been received ? |
20 | So what was it about the wretched man that cut straight through her defences ? |
21 | Why was it on the wrong side of the road ? |
22 | And was it on the main road that the one who was killed |
23 | Was it after the First World War ? |
24 | Or was it in the Golden Cock ? |
25 | Who was it in the red suit ? |
26 | Nor was it in the romantic tradition that the cultivation of your own emotional development , the habits of seasoned and trade introspection , are really what the poet needs . |
27 | Neither was it within the second type of loss above , because the sellers were unaware of the buyers ' chance of obtaining those lucrative contracts . |