Example sentences of "[be] it [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , an account of a fifty year-old promise honoured to return an altarpiece to Bohemia were it ever to become free |
| 2 | I can walk out or , and get erm , you know tonnes of any any shop I can get pornography that tells me that , or tell any man who chooses to buy that magazine that 's it okay to take a women even if she says no . |
| 3 | Is it best to fix an extractor in a ceiling ? |
| 4 | For example , what definition of money is taken and which financial asset(s) is it best to use in the investigations ? |
| 5 | Is it best to go for television , radio , newspapers , magazines , posters , point-of-sale material like shop cards on counters or in shop windows , or brochures and leaflets ? |
| 6 | Is it best to do sort of a say if a question , Which accent do you not like ? |
| 7 | Is it best to do a series of accents and get 'em to tick or get 'em |
| 8 | When things go badly wrong , is it best to abort the mission , cut one 's losses and use the resources more effectively elsewhere , or go on trying ? |
| 9 | Is it best to grout with mortar between paving slabs ? |
| 10 | Or is it best to write first and see if they are interested ? |
| 11 | Or is it just to do the shopping ? |
| 12 | So when is it alright to do games ? |
| 13 | So is it here to stay or could we , all of us , do without drugs ? |
| 14 | ‘ Son of the Wild Panthers , ’ said the Oak , in a warm , woodsy sort of voice , ‘ son of one of Ireland 's most ancient Bloodlines , is it solely to ask our help that you have woken us ? ’ |
| 15 | How much is it actually to get a place ? |
| 16 | The more powerful the belief that domestic industry is inferior and unreliable , the more likely is it actually to become so . |
| 17 | But is it enough to say that periods of structural change are marked by crises ? |
| 18 | Nor is it enough to point to other facets of the book provision system , such as the reservations service or staff relationships with readers , as a palliative . |
| 19 | She works tirelessly for those in need … but is it enough to weather storm ? |
| 20 | Nor is it enough to give them details of exercise and sport and then assume that they will simply become more active . |
| 21 | ‘ But is it enough to marry him for ? |
| 22 | Is it enough to assume you are comparatively fit because you walk up a few stairs or stretch and bend a little as you go about your household chores ? |
| 23 | Is it more to do with the deceased Dr Puddephat 's sex life ? |
| 24 | or is it only to do with doors opening ? |
| 25 | Is it then to see the world filled with drooping , superannuated , half-starved , helpless and unhelped animals , that you would alter the present system of pursuit and prey ? |
| 26 | What was your priorities when you were doing that , what were your priorities as far as , was it to get it all down or was it just to get in down in a particular way what what do you see as the priorities when you were talking about doing it ? |
| 27 | Was it best to interfere with the cat 's instinct to play with its catch — or should I have left nature to her cruelty ? |
| 28 | Five months later the Minister of Information was asked in Parliament , during the debate on the Newspaper Ordnance ( Amendment ) Bill , why this new Bill was necessary if the Government had been able to close down Ulimwengu was it somehow to legalize what had been done already ? |
| 29 | Was it just electrical power — hence the staggering sight of all the massed Glories — or was it more to do with some human power the Worm had absorbed in its long sojourn under Monument Hill ? |
| 30 | It was not enough to pull America out of recession nor was it enough to save George Bush from defeat . |