Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [be] it [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ How much further is it to Kinsai ? ’ |
2 | ‘ How much further is it to this hotel ? |
3 | Just as a crisis point for conventional families is the point at which children leave home , so also is it for communes . |
4 | We have the ability to monitor and control our manpower extremely efficiently be it in terms of numbers , pay or potential or whatever . |
5 | Only secondarily was it for export to other classes . |
6 | If you are overweight , but are happy with the exercises you do at least three times per week , then far be it from us to interfere — continue , you are obviously doing a good job ! |
7 | No longer is it to be seen as an age of poverty , disease and false hopes . |
8 | No longer is it like the fifties when councils dictated to tenants how things would be . |
9 | No longer was it to be a question of careful , rational long-term planning of public expenditure . |
10 | Never again was it to be so easy for blunt common sense , which knew in any case that the triumphant world of liberal capitalist progress was the best of all possible worlds , to mobilise the universe on behalf of its prejudices . |
11 | The average employee loses one and half years of their working life due to stress , and very of , very seldom is it in one lump , because people have very severe breakdowns do n't they ? |