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

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1 Around the core that these estimates seek to identify was a much large penumbra of sympathizers willing to assist the revolutionaries , be it with money or temporary lodgings .
2 What is it with soup , I wonder , as Mock Turtle Martin Coogan slurps on his minestrone .
3 His dark eyes glinted in the candlelight , but was it with amusement or anger ?
4 Or was it with suspicion ?
5 A life of travelling Sundays ( proudly I noticed less and less wicker on my hamper , so covered was it with railway stickers ) , shunted into sidings to move on later with the consignment of coal , or worse , kippers .
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