Example sentences of "[conj] be it [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You never really sort of said well was it , was it a slipped disc or is it gone or have you got ta go back for any more tests or anything like that er and bearing in mind that he also said he was keen on sports and he played tennis and so on , you could 've had the opportunity there to say oh have your back problem , back troubles made in difference to you in that area ? |
| 2 | It also raises critical questions about purpose , like : is the purpose of education to consolidate the logic of the present system or is it to challenge and transform it ? |
| 3 | He swept her up into his arms with a moan of concern , or was it despair that she was acting so childishly ? |
| 4 | For example , did the guild have storage space within the church or was it expected that they make provision elsewhere ? |
| 5 | W w where they w w once when they 'd been installed or was it thought that it a mistake had been made in obviously a lot of cash had been spent on them but erm , was it considered a mis a waste of money or ? |
| 6 | Nor is it to deny that defective dependants will often , and quite understandably , attract far fiercer loyalties by that very fact . |
| 7 | Nor is it to deny that a society capable of providing for the fulfilment of all human needs , all the time , would eliminate the need for money altogether . |
| 8 | Nor is it to say that none of the Webbs ' criticisms of Owen is valid . |
| 9 | Clearly Clovis was currying favour with the catholic clergy at the start of the Visigothic war ; that is not to say that the war was a crusade , nor is it to say that the king had already been baptized . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , the dating evidence for this building development has not yet been fully established , nor is it known if the pagan shrine was dismantled in the middle or later years of the fourth century , when presumably the site became purely agricultural , maybe as part of a vine-growing estate . |
| 11 | Nor is it suggested that the smallholder should revert to primitive subsistence living , although he may need to give up some of the consumer society 's more expensive luxuries . |
| 12 | This has not been done in the interests of achieving a restrictively formalist , text-immanent reading of the story , nor is it suggested that contextual detail does not have a part to play in a multidimensional , interpretative process . |
| 13 | Nor is it to imply that difficulties can not be resolved . |
| 14 | [ This is not to say that the adjective must be ascriptive ; nor is it to require that the adjective should be restrictive — see Chapter 7 ; it merely states that there is no interaction between the properties as such . ] |
| 15 | Nor was it seen as of such immediate economic or political importance as public health , education or unemployment . |
| 16 | CAB 's confidentiality had not been fully appreciated nor was it realised that the worker was there to supply information required , not to pass judgement on the client or to offer gratuitous advice based on their personal experiences or prejudices . |
| 17 | Nor was it enforced when Israel invaded Palestine , and other Arab lands . |
| 18 | This may be all good fun , but is it justified when it is at the composer 's expense , and does not pay any regard to the evident persistence of the mensural tradition so obvious in the composer 's manuscripts ? |