Example sentences of "[adv] be it [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Not only is it good value for money , it 's clear that a great deal of thought has been given to the virus problem and how to cure it .
2 The mechanic says that on that year the truck the part was handcrafted in Zogmolia near Flelzonia and not only is it double reverse threaded but that its made from a rare alloy rendered from toxic wastes in New Jersey ; however , he has assured me while trying to hold back a laugh and spraying spittle all over me he knows a junk yard on Mars where he can get the part soon .
3 First , medical treatment other than symptom control or management is uncalled-for as a matter of law and , indeed , is inappropriate ; not only is it unethical conduct , but the doctor could also be subject to legal sanction .
4 Not only is it little consolation , he wrote , it is actually a further cause for despair , for it only shows that everything is far too late , that the glass was a dream of lateness and the work on the glass was a fantasy of lateness and the belief in the glass was the madness of one who has lost all sense of the meaning of lateness .
5 So was it any surprise that the Syrians we met that hot day in the Bekaa wanted only to maintain Lebanon 's Maronite-dominated institutions , to restore the sovereignty of the Lebanese government , to stay not one hour , not one minute longer than necessary ?
6 No longer is it any use making a note in your diary at home about the meal you 'll be enjoying at a friend 's on Wednesday night .
7 poor Derek , I mean I do n't know whether Derek 's away , did n't bother to come up on , if if he did n't bother to come Friday well he 's still laying on the bench , but if it 's Jack you see , the other day she well give did you ask him , I said no I do n't mention it till Friday to him and then when I get the next one I 'll say well is it this week 's or last week 's ?
8 Ignoring once again Honderich 's polemical language , there is an important problem here : namely , how is it that Conservatism can be responsible for what everyone agrees are two very different governmental strategies informed by two very different social philosophies ?
9 How is it that love and hate live so close together within one pulsing heart ?
10 Or how is it that faith and uncertainty are automatically associated with each other while knowledge is regarded as certain and therefore different ?
11 How is it that faith has been so divorced from knowledge ?
12 How is it that Television South West passed the quality threshold , offered by far the most money but still lost ?
13 I despise the idea and practice of blood sports , but this violent reaction threw up a profile of wildly inconsistent attitudes which puzzles me ; how is it that fox hunting is legal and fishing is the most popular outdoor recreational activity in Britain , yet badger killing invokes a desire for public retribution — lynch mob fever , almost — over and above the punishment of the courts ?
14 We met up with Sonia and she 's looking great but then is it any wonder ?
15 How 's it going Ton ?
16 Why is it that marriage should be a relationship of such potential closeness , joy and fulfilment , and yet for so many end up in such unhappiness and hurt ?
17 WHY is it that hotel owners and operators put so much emphasis on recruiting professional ‘ hotel designers ’ to create the right hotel , but , when it comes to the inclusion of leisure facilities , then they appear to approach any designer , with the impression that it can be addressed from a design viewpoint just like any other area ?
18 Why is it that prejudice is sometimes a successful vehicle for comedy ?
19 Why is it that hearing loss can play havoc with self-confidence ?
20 But finally , why is it that game show contestants are never UNEMPLOYED ?
21 But why is it that AIDS victims suffer from such obscure infections ?
22 Conversely , why is it that finance managers seem to think they have a monopoly on numeracy ?
23 Why is it pure gin ?
24 it is all wrong , cos I says to Stuart we had , we were at him Monday , I says why is it this year I says I get a , a thing to go to court on Monday , I says and yet last year I says I did n't pay mine till end of February she says oh well they 're getting stricter this year she says , oh you 've got a court thing fifteen pound and I says yeah and she says paying that , I said no I 'm not paying that cos I pay what I owe , I said but I 'm not paying the fifteen pound court cost
25 Then Harriet Shakespeare said , more softly and sounding puzzled , ‘ So why is it any use talking to me ?
26 Since when was it middle class or bourgeois to take a pride in your work , to want to see customers whose patronage provides your salary , satisfied ?
27 When was it this reconciliation took place ? ’
28 when was it last year or the year before ?
29 Where where was it that anaesthetist stayed that you and
30 I wrote and said that a lot of members our pension , we could n't afford it , and that we owned our own hall so therefore we had a lot of cost to keep it in good repair and why was it nine pound .
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