Example sentences of "be it [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Were it face-on to us , I suppose that binoculars would show the spiral ; it is a great pity that it is placed at such an unfavourable angle .
2 You do n't open one window it 's it sort of thing
3 How big is it chairman in relation to the existing shed ?
4 Is it music for his imagined funeral , or does it remind the singer that although unhappy , he is in love ?
5 is it art over the Royal Centre
6 Is it coley for supper ? ’
7 What , seen , what have you been to that Liberti is it Liberties by the town church ?
8 Oh yes Dan used to stand outside calling er get your nice steak or get your nice egg bun and all this , they mostly had barkers , and it was competition you see between the , there was er Smiths the pork butchers , erm Cliffs the pork butchers , that was nearly by McMillans that were I forget and there used to be Olivers shoe shop round there and a Mr used to erm I do n't know whether you 've heard of Percy , no , and erm his father used to manage it and erm behind the Angel Alley you know the Angel Alley , well that was down shop there , and then there were several maid shops and there was the erm grocers , that 's er before you turn o that 's on the same side as Street , it , is it , is it Moors in Street , there 's a hardware shop on the corner now straight in the market place ?
9 Is it hole in the head ?
10 Listen all you viewers out there , is it viewers on the radio ?
11 Yeah , what is it quarter to three ?
12 Is it concern for overpopulation ?
13 This may be an easy point to win , but it fails to answer the question : is it part of the legitimate exercise of freedom for the press to speak out in opposition to a popularly elected government operating in a situation of uncertain stability , with the ever-present threat of division and disunity ?
14 Or is it part of the systematic structural bias of the state , part of a policy to entrench the nuclear family ?
15 Is it part of the Intercity trademark that the silver swallow has to go to right-hand up
16 Is it part of the meaning of ’ institution of higher education' , such that we would not be prepared to grant the name to an institution in which there was no research taking place ?
17 Do Goneril and Regan take this coldness from their father , is it part of his ‘ evil ’ personality just as Cordelia was part of his ‘ good ’ ?
18 And is there any possibility — or is it part of current thinking — that InterCity tracks will be sold off as part of InterCity in the highly improbable event of the right hon. and learned Gentleman still being in a position to proceed with such a sale ?
19 Is it part of the Government 's duty to advise us all on what we should eat ?
20 Is it part of the supporters club ?
21 Is it part of another sea ?
22 Gandhi claims to be a Sanātani Hindu himself , but as he points out , his religion is not exclusive nor is it missionary in the ordinary sense of the term .
23 Or is it lack of control ?
24 Is it lack of funds ?
25 Is it fear of fictional artificiality or a puritanical distrust of pure pleasure which has led to an increasing relegation to the status of ‘ popular ’ and , by implication , ‘ inferior ’ literature of a genre which has myth and legend as its ancestors ?
26 Is it sort of beyond plan
27 Yeah , or is it the Society for the Blind or is it sort of between the two ?
28 Is it sort of child bearing ?
29 Is it , is it sort of is it a certain raving dance then or what is it ?
30 Is it , is it sort of like a tea ? .
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