Example sentences of "[that] be it " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also held , dubiously , that were it not for the corruptions imposed by state and law , men would develop bonds of instinctive solidarity which would make government unnecessary . |
| 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 | It is tempting to speculate that were it not for the onset of the protracted illness in February 1858 Which led to his death in September 1859 , his influence might have produced a very different outcome to the competition . |
| 4 | It must be stressed , though , that were it is said above that the researcher will ‘ scan the library ’ for previous writings on the area of study , this means more than a casual walk past the shelves of books which seem to be vaguely related to the topic . |
| 5 | The problem however is that were it simply to be said of Jesus that he was a human like any other who lived in history we should not have a Christology . |
| 6 | Then Baldwin saw him again and told hint that were it not for his age and his health ( neither of which had greatly changed in the preceding forty-eight hours ) , he would have offered him the vacancy , but as it was it had better go to Eden . |
| 7 | Aye , that were it … the lad 's name were Matthew . ’ |
| 8 | and then we wrote home to mam that we 'd found a job , and that were it . |
| 9 | It is our understanding that were it not for the contact that was made by the state lottery with Scientific Games , that they would be a bidder , the Scientific Games system is a good system . |
| 10 | It is strange to consider that were it not for the intervention of Conservative industrialists , the proposals in this Bill could have been far worse . |
| 11 | It should be pointed out , though , that were it not for the attacks through evolutionary time of these herbivores , there would be none of the commercially significant heartwoods , latexes and resins so useful to humans . |
| 12 | I started coughing yesterday and I , that were it ! |
| 13 | And he just gave him one in last round and that were it ! |
| 14 | and that were it . |
| 15 | That were it . |
| 16 | Well I er come in , picked all stuff up off the floor lit the fire and I think that were it . |
| 17 | I lent it Steven and that were it ! |
| 18 | I were telling you about Irene , I were filling this thing in and I put right , sixty four I were gon na put sixty four , that were it . |
| 19 | That 's a good sor that is it . |
| 20 | Oh my stars sixty two you got that 's not a bad score that is it ? |
| 21 | And another common feature is that each separate country , each state , claims sovereignty that is it claims a legal equality erm within the international order . |
| 22 | Now is the time for the engineering man that is it yeah |
| 23 | Erm , I would agree that erm , what you saying about the anorexic thing and the fact that 's it 's a sort of deep-seated unhappiness , but I think that 's far too general . |
| 24 | So actually could you make a note on there somewhere , erm sort of underneath the at per mile or something that 's it 's er . |
| 25 | I mentioned erm benefits of er of exempt income and I showed er a feature with this and I apologize that the fact that 's it 's TESSA but I do this with TESSA because it 's the one way that you can illustrate the point I want to make . |
| 26 | And one for that one that 's it . |
| 27 | And most single people and er most young people in particular , fall outside that definition and that means that they really have no access to council housing of any kind and er they also find it very hard to get into the private rented sector , because of er the fact that 's it 's er , the rents are so high , and , and therefore they are at the mercy of erm basically the well , well loosely what one could describe as the bad landlords , the sharks , who will er exploit their situation . |
| 28 | I really thought that was it , then I stopped taking them . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I rather thought that was it . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ When I put the phone down on him on Friday that was it . |