Example sentences of "be it [adv] [adv] [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it is insulting to suggest to a person that he is a homosexual , is it not equally insulting to suggest to a man that he is the sort of person who might be susceptible to solicitation in the streets by women ? |
| 2 | Why is it not normally possible to ripen wheat or barley on the uplands ? |
| 3 | If the charge of hypocrisy can be raised against the latter , is it not also possible to raise it against the former ? |
| 4 | Is it not obviously wiser to install a 2.8 litre Ford power unit ( as advertised in LRO ) . |
| 5 | Even if such a quality of relationship is possible , is it not too painful to achieve ? |
| 6 | Is it not more effective to introduce him to methods in order that such ‘ discoveries ’ as are made are appreciated and understood ? |
| 7 | Rather than create a new institution , is it not more feasible to improve our existing one , the police ? |
| 8 | Is it not more important to ensure the survival of important large firms , while at the same time promote fierce competition between them ? |
| 9 | And yet … is it all that easy to subtract language in the first place ? |
| 10 | They always mean that as a compliment , but it 's a dubious one when you think about it : is it so very satisfactory to look MUCH better to one person than you do to twenty million ? |
| 11 | Most people were still using wooden ploughs er which , not only di is it much more difficult to cut the sod with a er wooden plough , but it also cuts only in to about half the depth of an iron plough so you ca n't sort of turn the soil over to anything like the same extent . |
| 12 | Was it not too restrictive to preclude the possibility that forces of greater intensity had acted in the past ? |
| 13 | Was it really too late to go back — to make her peace with Mach ? |
| 14 | Oh , Lori , was it really so hard to share your parents with me ? ’ |