Example sentences of "[be] it [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I think it would be helpful to the panel to have a feel for whether the Leeds in migration issue , is the only aspect of regional , sub-regional policy or whether there are other aspects of it which are important or be it perhaps less important . |
| 2 | The structured the structured thought patterns gave me an actual er organisation to my talk be it only just a few words on a piece of paper it was simple yet er gave the organisation to the actual talk while you stood up in front of an audience . |
| 3 | ‘ My reasons for so soon destroying my drawings were these ; though I dare say that they do n't appear so rational to any one but myself : I was obliged to limit the work — in order to get more subscribers — & to erase the drawings — because the expense is considerable for keeping them on , & I have pretty great difficulty in paying my monthly charges , — for to pay colourer & printer monthly I am obstinately pre-possessed — since I had rather be at the bottom of the River Thames — than be one week in debt — be it never so small . |
| 4 | THE stubborn candidature of Mr John Browne for Winchester would be comic were it not also deceitful — he proclaims himself the Conservative in all his literature — and dangerous to the Tory interest in a desperately close election . |
| 5 | Arguably , Macao would worry less about its future were it not constantly exposed to the nervousness of Hong Kong across the water . |
| 6 | The boy slept in a large front bedroom whose window , were it not so closely covered by an old woollen blanket , looked out over the once elegant front walkway with its crazy paving and stepped terraces . |
| 7 | For more than a week , a group of grey-suited former communists has played with the nation 's future with an irresponsibility and spite that would be risible were it not so dangerous . |
| 8 | States have shown a capacity for self-destruction in the past and wars have come with a regularity which would be monotonous were it not so horrifying ; history belies the claims of statesmen to be in charge of events . |
| 9 | And perhaps this is just as well , for were it not so , and were we to believe that personality became irreversibly set in the first two ( or three , or five ) years of life we should have to believe , first , that any child harmed then was beyond help and thus clinically not worth bothering about ; and , second , that children in later years were not vulnerable and that experience then was of no consequence . |
| 10 | Were it not so , the legitimate parents might detect the substitution and throw it out . |
| 11 | ‘ God give me strength , ’ he yelled , instantly turning his attention back to the younger man who stood before him , and whose woebegone expression would have been comical were it not so pitiful . |
| 12 | Were it not so , I might well have more sympathy with an isolationist approach . |
| 13 | Were it not better done as other use to sport with Amaryllis in the shade , or with the tangles of Nayera 's hair . ’ |
| 14 | Were it so again , that some little profit might be reaped … out of some of our playbooks , the benefit thereof will nothing near countervail the harm that the scandal will bring unto the library , when it shall be given out , that we stuff it full of baggage books . |
| 15 | Many cases documented in the following chapters on obscenity , in which Mrs Whitehouse was involved , be it either centrally or peripherally , may , quite unlike the Gay News or Thorsen cases , have no direct or obvious link with Christianity . |
| 16 | In a field that is patchy in space and time , be it ever so small , we may expect that the populations of a species such as white clover will , at any time , reflect selective forces from its past . |
| 17 | Every scientific paper , be it ever so short and its subject ever so tiny , is nevertheless supposed , at least in principle , to make claims about and build upon , in a logical and verifiable fashion , our knowledge of the rest of the entire natural and social world ; an ambitious aim . |
| 18 | It was recognized that there were distinct social orders within the community , but these were widely regarded as ‘ natural ’ and their relationship was defined as an organic one : each had his or her part to play , be it ever so humble . |
| 19 | Here the examiner will probably have divided up the possible marks in his mind among the component parts , and an answer to one part , be it ever so brilliant , can earn only the appropriate total for that part . |
| 20 | If the cause is a self-replicating entity , the effect , be it ever so distant and indirect , can be subject to natural selection . |
| 21 | Be it ever so humble it still smells of shit , eh ? ’ |
| 22 | Be it never so humble , there 's no place like home . |
| 23 | Be it never so gloomy — is there still a sofa covered with black velvet ? |
| 24 | In an article written in the mid-century , ‘ Home is Home , be it never so homely ’ , Henry Mayhew argues that ‘ if the idea of ease be essentially connected with the English notion of home , certainly that of comfort forms a special part of it ’ . |
| 25 | It is not material whether he hath a court or no ; all the matter is , whether he hath a jurisdiction ; if he hath conusance of the matter and person , and he gives a sentence , it must have some effect to make a vacancy , be it never so wrong . |
| 26 | ‘ If the sentence be given by the proper visitor , created so by the founder , or by the law , you shall never inquire into the validity , or ground of the sentence … private and particular corporations for charity , founded and endowed by private persons , are subject to the private government of those who erect them … if [ the visitor ] hath conusance of the matter and person , and he gives a sentence , it must have some effect to make a vacancy , be it never so wrong . |
| 27 | There are certain spells that can prevent the life departing from a body , be it never so abused , and — I see by your face that understanding dawns ? ’ |
| 28 | That 's it right okay . |
| 29 | Right that 's it away away there . |
| 30 | That 's it up ahead . |