Example sentences of "[be] it [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm simply because erm the later in the market it was obviously important that erm people had some substance all be it very small er |
| 2 | The risk-graded investment — be it under Scottish Mutual 's calculations or the statistical tools used by other unit trust managers — can be no more than a guide . |
| 3 | Anyone in Hong Kong with a problem — be it so trivial as to know which horse to place a bet on , or so crucial as to know whom to marry — can ask the god Won Tai Sin , whose temple is to be found in the middle of a vast housing estate in north Kowloon , and who came to fame by turning boulders into sheep . |
| 4 | By 1918 there were many Labour Party parliamentarians and trade unionists who would willingly have excluded the ILP from the party , were it not that opposition to the war had spread quite widely and had partly justified the ILP position . |
| 5 | And part of that barn policy even were it not worthy of extra has always been , that the , once you carried out the renovations to the barn that was , the actual extent of the building . |
| 6 | It is impossible for words to express my fixed determination of alleviating this evil — even to the small extent of one neighbourhood only — were it only possible . ’ |
| 7 | Were it that easy , we would have done that three or four years ago . |
| 8 | Dense exhaust fumes in the atmosphere have the same effect , be it more gradual , succeeding in limiting oxygen supplies to the body , which in turn puts greater strain on the heart . |
| 9 | just turn them off , and that 's it Just normal conversations the words that people use in common different areas of the country , with accents and th dialect and one thing and another it 's for the Oxford English Dictionary the next edition . |
| 10 | So really that 's it as far as the N tuple method is . |
| 11 | That 's it so that 's what a sixth looks like . |
| 12 | Why 's it so pale ? |
| 13 | That 's it okay that 's finished . |
| 14 | and that 's it basically that 's the |
| 15 | That 's it how many fingers ? |
| 16 | What 's it How long 's it take it to get going ? |
| 17 | Two years , I said two , Neill he said one , Like I did n't argue , I did n't argue , I said to Roy who 's it how long is , how 's Sue 's sister , I said two years , the said no , one year , I wo n't argue . |
| 18 | Is it yet another symptom of the general decay of Western civilisation so well exemplified by widespread social disorder , the decline of moral standards and the onslaught of printed toilet tissue ? |
| 19 | To help it to be more acceptable , or is it already acceptable to those who do not yet attend ? |
| 20 | ‘ Is it nearly ready ? ’ said Penry , startling her . |
| 21 | Child , your hand — is it badly hurt ? ’ |
| 22 | There has never been a single definitive statement of what are British objectives for policy in the EEC ; nor is it wholly reasonable to expect one . |
| 23 | It is not surprising that many citizens ‘ banned and cursed her ’ , nor is it wholly surprising that there were some among them prepared to give her money to go on a pilgrimage to the shrine of St James of Compostella in Spain . |
| 24 | The image is not wholly false ; but nor is it wholly true . |
| 25 | Is it wholly chimerical to hope that a newly elected Tory government with an unassailable majority might do its duty , however painful for itself , and take the first steps to reverse this pernicious evil and restore the tried and tested order of our ancestors by which only those fitted to rule have any right to elect the government of this country under the Crown ? |
| 26 | Only in coffee and silk is it wholly dependent on imports . |
| 27 | Do you agree and therefore is it best that it goes in the research one ? |
| 28 | You know is it completely variable ? |
| 29 | I mean does anybody think that parental investment theory is relevant at all to modern industrial society or is it completely irrelevant ? |
| 30 | It brings us quite close to what is essential in some kinds of abstract art : when we look at the work of Rothko or Barnett Newman or maybe Brancusi , what is it exactly that makes us feel these works are so important ? |