Example sentences of "be it [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I don I do n't know if it 'll be three hours I mean ideally I know it should be it just depends how we we can fit it in . |
| 2 | Were it not fur her , I dare say Edward Plantagenet would long since have succumbed to ennui and despair . |
| 3 | Despite the relief provided by a wide , bashful grin , Singleton 's arrogance would be unbearable were it not fuelled by righteous indignation and an urgent need to communicate . |
| 4 | It is around 7000 light-years away , and would appear much brighter were it not dimmed by interstellar material between the cluster and ourselves . |
| 5 | Would you be prepared to answer the question were it not related to Skelton ? |
| 6 | This column , however , would be less than human were it not to exult in the humiliation of the pollsters in last week 's election . |
| 7 | The " offer of amends " would be a valuable protection for the media in cases of unintentional defamation , were it not encumbered by what the Faulks Committee described as " expensive rigmarole " — a procedure which requires the swearing of a detailed affidavit about how the confusion arose , which must be served at the same time as the offer of amends . |
| 8 | Even were it so minded , the privately owned National Grid Company would be prohibited from arbitrarily preventing access to its system , by both the terms of the Electricity Act of 1989 ( which I had the honour to pilot through Parliament ) and by the electricity regulatory body , OFFER ( Office of Electricity Regulation ) . |
| 9 | Now I must admit my first thoughts of it were it really gets my back up for some reason or other . |
| 10 | Most reasonable people would side with the rhetoric of ‘ rights ’ here , particularly of the giraffe 's plight were it unnaturally cramped . |
| 11 | From the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , an account of a fifty year-old promise honoured to return an altarpiece to Bohemia were it ever to become free |
| 12 | ‘ Be it also known that mutation can twist the rune-signs written in gene-seed . |
| 13 | It be it just work right |
| 14 | And we 're looking at more flexible working patterns , be it part-time working , career breaks , flexible hours and term-time working . |
| 15 | Cathy Massiter made it very clear in her television interview that MI5 and Special Branch alone decide who merits a dossier and which group they belong to and can open a file on any person or group of people or organisation they please , put into it anything they like , be it only gossip or hearsay , and once opened the file remains there indefinitely . |
| 16 | The document begins : ‘ Be it now proclaimed by the Board of Commissioners of the County of Beaver under the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ’ and goes on to support the work done to try and preserve the line as a ‘ national monument of historical importance ’ . |
| 17 | What 's it why 've you change it ? |
| 18 | So that 's it just go along the bottom one two three four five six okay , And then you wo n't move those and what can you do there ? |
| 19 | No , well but er it , it , it 's it just strikes me as being a very , very immature when you 're in another person 's house |
| 20 | That 's it just give her a shout . |
| 21 | It 's it just means we go like we got mixed up with our zero and we should have started lower down but we 're not going to change it now . |
| 22 | That 's it just add another nought on . |
| 23 | pull it out then , that 's it well done now what time is it now ? |
| 24 | That 's it well done ! |
| 25 | So what 's it probably going to start with ? |
| 26 | What good 's it ever done a soul ? |
| 27 | And that fairly quickly , but erm , it 's it really producing plants in a a forced situation , which I do n't translate into others , and grow strongly elsewhere , and er , I 'm afraid I 'm I 'm no expert in this plan . |
| 28 | What 's it really like to have a two-hour delivery ? |
| 29 | No it , it 's because they are nice round amounts , one twenty five is has been such a derisory amount it , it 's it really has . |
| 30 | Why 's it always come out screwed up ? |