Example sentences of "be it [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twentieth-century developments in communications — be it the faster postal service , the telephone , telegrams or improved road conditions and means of transport — would enable far-flung relations to keep in touch with each other with an ease at which their ancestors might have marvelled . |
| 2 | By and large the world of commerce has come to terms with word processing , be it a simple electronic typewriter , an Amstrad PCW or a full-blown secretarial system running on dedicated PCs . |
| 3 | Is it a new editorial policy that New Scientist will investigate the number and source of replies to advertisements within its pages and then print snide remarks about why the unsuccessful applicants should n't have applied in the first place ? |
| 4 | Is it a dark metallic silver ? |
| 5 | Ah is it a nine fifty is it ? |
| 6 | Is it a second best , or in line with current fashion ? |
| 7 | Is it , is it sort of is it a certain raving dance then or what is it ? |
| 8 | Is it a major historical turning-point , implying the complete re-fashioning of the economy , of production and of the geography of production ? |
| 9 | Is it , is it a , a major problem , is it a major medical , medical problem ? |
| 10 | And you can have it it is is it a two hundred mile radius ? |
| 11 | Nor is it a sheer intellectual exercise , a modern form of the Glass Bead Game , as depicted by Hermann Hesse in his novel . |
| 12 | Oh is it a big long serial thing ? |
| 13 | Is it a big technical problem or is it very straight forward . |
| 14 | Erm Is it a big old house is it . |
| 15 | Is this a book that could be read , as it were , by the layman at all , or is it a complicated technical book . |
| 16 | Those who detect a ‘ negative emotive force ’ in the ( apparent ) negative prefix not only of impertinent , but also of impudent , indignant , indifferent and possibly inane ( in none of which is it a true semantic constituent ) , may be reluctant to accept this result . |
| 17 | Is it a coniferous one Colin ? |
| 18 | Is it a shiny metallic gate , or a crumbling wooden one ? ) |
| 19 | It 's not part of our solar system it just is it every sev how many years is it every seventy six or something ? |
| 20 | Central Grooves was repeated , making at least five ascents now , and hard V ( or is it an easy VI ? ) seems the consensus . |
| 21 | Is it an ordinary digital computer of the sort that 's used in commerce and industry , or is it a special type of computer . |
| 22 | No longer is it the dull old building lost in the undergrowth . |
| 23 | Why is it the other four ? |
| 24 | Is this the new library now , or is it the new extended ? |
| 25 | And is it the same forty who said fathers are n't necessary , out of interest ? |
| 26 | Is it the same old boys ' network ? |
| 27 | Is it the hidden urban curse ? |
| 28 | Your date of birth Sir is it the twenty first of August nineteen ? |
| 29 | Is it the twenty one or is it the sixty or forty eight |
| 30 | Was it a political Great Fear , a contagion that spread from city to city , village to village ? |