Example sentences of "[adv] [be] it [verb] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only was it alleged that the manoeuvre had been a most un-British attack on civilian Boer settlements , overwhelming evidence emerged that it had been irresponsibly commanded with several floutings of elementary military precautions , so that the men who had died — my brother among them — had died quite needlessly . |
| 2 | Not till later was it diagnosed that the mental breakdown which destroyed Hoskyns crept upon him for a year or more before he died . |
| 3 | How then is it contended that the courts have power to review the visitor 's decision as to the effect of the domestic law of the university in this case ? |
| 4 | When is it envisaged that the new Merlin helicopter will be on site in Portland ? |
| 5 | How and why is it intended that the Vendor 's liability should be increased by delivering an inaccurate Disclosure Letter ? |
| 6 | The stockings they knitted went on to the feet of the British Army , and so great was the demand and so determinedly was it met that the Romantic writer Southey called them the " Terrible Knitters of Dent " , terrible meaning not bad but fierce , terribly good . |