Example sentences of "be it [conj] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michael Land of Sussex University , our foremost authority on invertebrate eyes , is worried , and so am I. Is it that the necessary mutations can not arise , given the way Nautilus embryos develop ? |
| 2 | Why is it that the psychic gifts often cause apprehension and even fear ? |
| 3 | ‘ What is it that the Roman poet Catullus said ? |
| 4 | Or is it that the working class has shrunk to a level which means it can never put Labour into power ? |
| 5 | Why is it that the black sheep of the family is often the most likeable . |
| 6 | How likely is it that the other staff would volunteer information , especially about practices in which they themselves might have been involved ? |
| 7 | If all those taxes have been abolished since 1979 , why is it that the average family , starting out in 1979 with a debt of 45 per cent . |
| 8 | Is it that the overall proportion of Management to staff is too high so the balance is being put right ? |
| 9 | Why is it that the simple act of purchasing something can often be hell ? |
| 10 | Or is it that the sudden perception of one 's own constant vulnerability provides , in its black , clouded way , a dazzling , near-religious feeling of revelation — this is how things really are ; that to be born is , by definition , to be a victim ? |
| 11 | When eating out , why is it that the next table 's conversation is often so much more fascinating and intriguing ? |
| 12 | Is it that the human being is secretly nothing without others ? |
| 13 | Is it because the Labour party does not believe that it could convince the people , on its own terms , that those are meritorious things to do ? |
| 14 | Is it because the Labour party feels that it could not convince the people but could achieve its objectives through a centralist bureaucracy in Europe — rather than through argument and persuading its own people ? |
| 15 | Is it because the right hand side is going so badly ? |
| 16 | Given the extent to which the British public supported Republican Spain , why was it that the National government kept to its policy of non-intervention ? |
| 17 | Was it because the Holy Ones feared that the key to this inner knowledge and the inner voice would be misused that they never revealed their knowledge ? |