Example sentences of "and be it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just like it does not allow us to sing an old song that was sung often , Show Me The Road And The Miles To Dundee perhaps that 's the song we should be singing just now in these particular circumstances and be it the day , maybe even in Portsmouth this particular day . |
| 2 | I could cut and different things like that and be it fate or not his er suddenly lost his driving licence . |
| 3 | What is certain is that , did it exist and were it to be opened by some ‘ cleansing regime ’ , the happy openness of British life would go for good . |
| 4 | Some forms ( Turrilites ) adopted the helical spire , and were it not for the obligatory suture lines it might be possible to mistake these species for large gastropods . |
| 5 | Hill farming demands very hard work for marginal returns and were it not for government subsidies for hill sheep and cattle , many hill farmers would have to give up . |
| 6 | The top is not visible from the road , and were it not for a sizeable cairn you could miss it altogether . |
| 7 | Fortunately the process is explicitly parallel and were it to be run on multiprocessor hardware then there could be substantial speed-up . |
| 8 | There is , monks , an unborn not become , not made , uncompounded , and were it not , monks , for this unborn , not become , not made , uncompounded , no escape could be shown here , for what is born , has become made , is compounded . |
| 9 | I fancy that across the channel where Napoleon 's wars were ravaging all Europe , our two innkeepers fell flat as pancakes , and were it not for the felicities of their translator they would scarcely be worth comment . |
| 10 | ‘ She is unwomanly , ’ Zurachina said , as if she anticipated his objections , ‘ and were it not for her beauty I would wish that she had been born a man . ’ |
| 11 | No mean problem , this , in a time largely deafened to such sober music , and were it not for the incomparable examples of Spenser and Milton , he might finally have despaired ; but what they in their day had achieved for their grave themes ought ( he had long believed ) to be possible for the richer store of myth and symbol at his disposal ; and now the lines had begun to move with the majesty he desired . |
| 12 | In this fieldworker 's experience , boundaries between parishes are frequently very unimpressive , often no different to general field boundaries in the vicinity , and were it not for the fact that the boundary line is known , the field evidence would in many cases not suggest it . |
| 13 | While Shatov expounds and disputes ardently , and incidentally takes a lot of good- and God-focused material off the shoulders of the notebook Stavrogin ( ‘ ‘ Shatov must be tied up before you can argue with him , ' ’ Stepan Verkhovensky sometimes joked' ) , only to Kirillov can it be said and is it said , ‘ you have n't swallowed an idea , but an idea has swallowed you ’ — to which he responds delightedly with ‘ That 's good . |
| 14 | And is it not a true bill , now as in 1918 ? |
| 15 | There 's going to be a real tug-of-war : ‘ here comes the past , and is it going to take over ? ’ . |
| 16 | I have found no evidence that at any stage anyone said ‘ what is this Sterling Area , and is it obviously a good thing for Britain ? ’ |
| 17 | After dinner the talk fell to the great question which was uppermost in Lewis 's mind : that question being , in the words of his pupil Betjeman , ‘ and is it true , and is it true , this most amazing tale of all ? ’ |
| 18 | After dinner the talk fell to the great question which was uppermost in Lewis 's mind : that question being , in the words of his pupil Betjeman , ‘ and is it true , and is it true , this most amazing tale of all ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ And is it ‘ refreshing ’ to be inhaling particles of cotton twelve hours a day ? ’ |
| 20 | And is it art ? |
| 21 | And is it not clearly in American interests to resist this ? |
| 22 | Is this engine available and is it a worthwhile conversion in terms of increased power and better fuel consumption ? |
| 23 | Exactly what was the input to the piece of writing and is it a first or fourth draft ? |
| 24 | What constitutes proof , and is it possible ? |
| 25 | Does the ‘ expansion ’ pipe hook over the tank and is it free and unobstructed ( see Chapter 6 ) ? |
| 26 | Q. Can my partner take out a DOUBLE PAYMENT PLAN — and is it worth it ? |
| 27 | In popular debate about crime one issue always comes to the fore : how much crime is there in our society , and is it increasing or decreasing ? |
| 28 | Does this increase in variation mean that we can speak of a specifically ‘ local ’ politics , and if so is this based around local issues and is it generated through local processes ? |
| 29 | And is it merely coincidence that the two completed studies in the field both revolve around hilly terrain , just as Persinger suggested ? |
| 30 | What was the best game ever reviewed in ZZAP ! and is it worth now what mark it got ? |