Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] be it [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When boys were given legitimate authority to exercise at last , so eagerly was it anticipated that they were prone to feel it intensely deserved . |
| 2 | So completely was it abandoned that with the passage of time , and the weathering away of what little remained of it , its location was forgotten , although the facts of its existence and its fate were widely known . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Not only is it believed that God , through creation and revelation , has made known His will for humankind , a will revealed to us supremely through the words and actions of Jesus Christ , but He has continued to guide His church . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | No longer is it expected that technologists dictate the design of the system to the users . |
| 8 | BR 's motive-power policy was rapidly turned on its head with the abandonment of two sacred principles : sectorisation saw the end of the common-user policy for locomotives and passenger multiple units : and no longer was it accepted that life-expired main-line cast-offs should spend their last days propping up secondary services . |