Example sentences of "be it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | er if you 're out of work you 're it takes small businesses of . |
| 2 | Although I did my best not to , something of my scepticism must have betrayed itself , for Mr Farraday then added , as though for reassurance , that were it to prove necessary , then an additional member of staff could be hired . |
| 3 | The point is that normally such parents would prefer that their babies were not defective and would welcome a non-controversial cure were it to become available . |
| 4 | Be it taking accurate telephone messages , preparing a quotation , or cooking a meal , quality management means it is done properly , all the time . |
| 5 | That 's it times two . |
| 6 | We we got lots of evidence to suggest that actually the amount of noise problem outside weekends is actually and we do n't actually have the staff to actually deal with this problem without considerably more expenditure than anybody in this council is actually talking about and our tendency towards this erm again this is a bid of of what 's it sounds good and as as to the public conveniences this has been liaised it 's been negotiated about , it 's been looked at very , very expansively indeed . |
| 7 | And keep those that 's it keep those pennies separate . |
| 8 | ‘ Why 's it gone all dark ? ’ she said . |
| 9 | Why 's it gone quiet , I ca n't hear myself now , yes I can |
| 10 | and what 's it running that way ? and that way ? |
| 11 | Yes it 's the magic E , is n't it , and what 's it making that A say ? |
| 12 | So what 's it got that MS-DOS 6 wo n't have ? |
| 13 | But why 's it saying that ? |
| 14 | It 's followed 's Road most of the way but it 's it went different routes some places just to take away a steep . |
| 15 | Is the department a marginal service for which the overhead commitment is already made or is it to recover all its costs , including capital ? |
| 16 | Why is it called French polishing ? |
| 17 | Is it using all its fins , and are these fins held out proudly from the body or clamped ? |
| 18 | I mean is it affecting any of that good fishing up there or is that |
| 19 | My Lord my initial reaction is it sounds logical as well and I I wondered if if what my learned friend has said i if and also what your Lordship 's initial view is , if the matter can be left in that way er i if after further reflection , it seems right then of course that 's the way that we will approach it . |
| 20 | Is it stamped Royal Dalton or Royal Doulton , for instance ? |
| 21 | He use to sit there and say , is it getting cold in here ? and muggings I use to get up and feed the fire and go down and , I , I ca n't believe it when I think back you know . |
| 22 | Is it getting cold , oh my feet are getting cold . |
| 23 | Neither is it made explicit how one element in the descriptive frame is supposed to interconnect with another . |
| 24 | An anaesthetist 's ability to maintain airway patency by using a conventional facemask is not a skill easily acquired , nor is it made redundant by this new piece of equipment . |
| 25 | We never learn their names , nor is it made clear until the end what is wrong with the man . |
| 26 | Some writers quote dates to an accuracy of 25 years , others 30 years , but rarely is it made clear why , or how such dates are obtained . |
| 27 | Only with line B , and with its last word , is it made clear that the image of the whole couplet is of sacrifice ; the burning of line A must be of wood upon the sacrificial altar . |
| 28 | Is it to collect all the information you 've got |
| 29 | Just how easy is it to do that ? |
| 30 | Not only is it allowing certain health authorities to waste millions of pounds on computer systems that do n't work , it also allowed the London Ambulance Service to put lives at risk with a system that had not been fully proven in practice . |