Example sentences of "[be] it any [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Were it any other company but MGN this might work . |
| 2 | Nor is it any good hoping you 'll raise all the money at the conference itself if three-quarters of the bills have to be paid beforehand . |
| 3 | Is it any good Ann ? |
| 4 | Is it any better to oblige her to go abseiling or butterfly-catching instead ? |
| 5 | Is it any better to act for the National Rifle Association than for the Cote d'Azur Development Agency , to take one name from his appendix ? |
| 6 | ‘ Why is it any worse for you ? |
| 7 | Is it any worse ? ’ |
| 8 | Is it any different from giving up a liberty to smoke ? |
| 9 | ‘ But what on earth is quality management and how is it any different from ordinary management ? |
| 10 | Is it any different if you |
| 11 | Is , is , is it any different at all from , from that land law of Mao 's in nineteen thirty ? |
| 12 | Nor is it any more than the incidental music to a play that captured the composer 's imagination and inspired him to conjure up the ‘ goings on in the Magicked Athenian wood ’ . |
| 13 | Is it any more accurate to call Hinduism polytheistic because of its talk of many gods than to call Roman Catholicism polytheistic on account of its talk of many saints ? |
| 14 | But is it any more than a legend ? |
| 15 | with the vein 's with the valves in everywhere , yes , it 's because they 've got to somehow or other , you 've got to somehow or other get the blood back up to the heart again , it 's not under pressure is it any more , cos it 's lost a lot of its pressure and the way it gets back to the heart of course that is it 's lying alongside the bones and the arteries and as you 're walking around , okay , the arteries are still having the pressure working , the muscles are still working and the vein lies next to it and the blood is able to be milked up , it 's milked back up to a non return valve , that shuts off and it ca n't drop back down any further and the next bit does the next bit up , okay , and then that shuts off and eventually it gets back to the heart and the capillaries what will that look like when it 's bleeding ? |
| 16 | But neither is it any more enlightening to say , for example , that " x is greater thany " means that if we were to set out to construct x and y by some algorithmic procedure , the construction of x would require a greater number of steps ; for the question is , what is meant by " greater " ? |
| 17 | Is it is it any more problem there ? |
| 18 | Well is it any more than a tennis court ? |
| 19 | Is it any later than normal or |
| 20 | A man of immense physical vigour , intellectual confidence and moral force , as naturally extrovert as was Paul painfully introvert , his decisive experience was not that of the Council ( which he did attend ) , nor of the Western Christian 's attempt to reshape the gospel when faced with the blandishments of agnostic affluence , still less was it any deep experience of the struggles of the third world ; instead , it was that of the Church 's singularly successful , no-nonsense resistance to communism in Poland : a combination of old-fashioned pieties , unquestioned doctrinal certainties , down-to-earth preoccupation with basic human rights , and a dose of sheer populism . |
| 21 | Was it any better ? |
| 22 | Was it any different ? |
| 23 | Was it any more true to our ideas of ourselves than the one we bear now ? |
| 24 | Was it any more accurate , or just the load of mumbo-jumbo I said it was ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Was it any particular date ? ’ |