Example sentences of "[be] it [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Be it also known that mutation can twist the rune-signs written in gene-seed . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Is it slowly savoured and really enjoyed , a splendid taste to satisfy the hunger pangs ? |
| 4 | It is not entirely clear whether these were improved native stock or were imported , nor is it conclusively proven that the Saxons brought the large type of red cattle to southern England , establishing the ancestors of the heavy modern red breeds now found in Devon , Sussex and Lincolnshire . |
| 5 | So is it here to stay or could we , all of us , do without drugs ? |
| 6 | Is it seriously suggested that the entire elderly population should be regularly screened , that a clear majority should be followed up monthly for six months , and that half should be treated for life on the basis of even the most optimistic interpretation of the trial data ? |
| 7 | Is it seriously suggested that she break with her old allies because of her lack of sympCOMMAND FILE ABORTED. athy for their mental health reforms ? |
| 8 | The worst thing about it as it stands , in the exercise , is it actually implies that the more food hygiene education goes on , the more food poisoning |
| 9 | But is it enough to say that periods of structural change are marked by crises ? |
| 10 | Is it really suggested that it is in the best interests of the community that the proper approach to remuneration is purely on a time basis , and supply related to the question whether there are sufficient people prac-tising ? |
| 11 | Out of the entire proceedings came just one plaintive comment : ‘ Why is it always raining when we are ready to go home ? ’ . |
| 12 | Was it properly refereed or passed through at the urgings of the editor ? |
| 13 | Nor was it generally known that some newspapers had declined to accept such advertising on ethical grounds . |
| 14 | It was to be financed by advertising revenue , but was it best described as ‘ commercial ’ or as ‘ independent ’ , as complementary to the BBC or as competitor ? |
| 15 | Was it a huge game of bluff ? was it ever intended that if the reports favoured nationalization we were to get it ? |
| 16 | From Otto 's time on the ambition to be crowned emperor by the pope was an inevitable ambition for all German kings until long after the end of our period ; nor was it ever forgotten that this was in imitation of Charles . |
| 17 | Was it ever published or was it just |
| 18 | And the tumble dryer , was it still turning or was it the sound of the Meloch that was always with us ? |
| 19 | Was it better fitted than before to handle the increasingly complex business of the sixteenth-century state ? |