Example sentences of "it be [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Disabled people tend to be under-represented in mainstream provision whether it be YTP , JTP , ACE or Enterprise Training . |
| 2 | Members of an enterprise association are joined in seeking a common substantive satisfaction , whether it be profit maximization as in the case of a company or a change in human behaviour as in the case of the Anti-Bloodsports League . |
| 3 | Whether it be communication , selling , negotiation , teaching , confrontation , or anything else involving people , the ability to see their point of view is crucial . |
| 4 | Finally , whatever the future of state schools ' funding , whether it be grant maintained or devolved under the local management of schools , all schools must be fairly and adequately resourced . |
| 5 | Politics and knowledge have worked according to the same Hegelian dialectic , with its ‘ phallo-logocentric Aufhebung ’ — whether it be Marxism 's History , Europe 's colonial annexations and accompanying racism or orientalist scholarship , or , in a typical conflation of patriarchy and colonialism , Freud 's characterization of femininity as the dark unexplored continent ( ’ within his economy , she is the strangeness he likes to appropriate' [ 68 ] ) . |
| 6 | My whole family background has been responsible , in a way , for , by virtue of the example of my parents , for my distress at witnessing prejudice , whether it be colour , or religious , or whatever , and intolerance , and so on , and I 've wanted to do a subject about South Africa for a long time , and this was enhanced erm obviously when I made Ghandi because , as you know , the first twenty odd years of Ghandi 's life |
| 7 | As we are discussing groundstroke skills , I think it is important to stress that at the beginning , according to the shape of shot that you have — whether it be topspin , slice or flat — you can insist on slice only , topspin only , or on hitting your favoured shot . |
| 8 | The Wagner report ( 1988 ) suggests a nominated social worker should be involved with a client and family in all the decisions leading up to , and through any possible admission to care , whether it be day care , respite care , or eventual permanency after a trial period . |
| 9 | Th the problem with suggestion therapy whether it be hypnosis or group therapy is it does n't tend to last in the longer run after the person stopped going to the group or they have n't seen the the er hypnotist for reinforcement . |
| 10 | The problem , whether it be vaginismus ( painful contraction of the vaginal muscles ) in the woman or failure to obtain an erection by the man , can be complained about and used as a defence against recognizing the problem in the self . |
| 11 | All aspects of England , whether it be underclass , or extreme affluence , I find very interesting and entertaining . |
| 12 | For the citizen with a need , whether it be welfare , housing assistance , job training or scores of other tasks the federal government has tackled through its grants it is often very difficult to decide just who is responsible for what . |
| 13 | Whether it be welfare , gas bills , housing , you name it and we 're in there fighting to , to keep them above the water , their heads above the water . |
| 14 | One reason for this problem-dominated view is the over-concentration of people into a few undesigned places , largely because people do not have either the knowledge or the confidence to leave the beaten track , whether it be road or footpath . |
| 15 | In the West Country you are drawn into its natural beauty by the progress of the seasons and the constant contact with the sea.Whether it be dolphin counting from a yacht or standing in esturial slime to catch a flatfish , the coast is a pleasure ground that rarely disappoints . |
| 16 | The most simple and straightforward situation is where land is already registered , and in nine times out of ten , a simple pro forma transfer deed can be used to effect the transfer of the interest , whether it be freehold or leasehold . |
| 17 | Whether it be participation through music-making or through response to performance ( dance , other body-movement , shouts of enthusiasm , the social paraphernalia of shared fanship , and so on ) , the increased specialization of musical labour together with mass media distribution , which together deliver ‘ high-quality ’ professional products into our homes , render all such ‘ participation ’ anachronistic ; it becomes an exercise in self-deception since it is manipulated from above by the consumer industries , the fetishistic relation hidden beneath a mask of self-directed activity and ‘ spontaneity ’ . |
| 18 | When we take somebody , assess their needs and offer them a care package , in terms of the elderly , erm , and more importantly in terms of those with physical disability or learning disability , we have basically got to support that person for the rest of their life , and therefore , the commitment is not just for the current year , the commitment in , in the case of the elderly depending on what is being offered , whether it be nursing home care , or residential care is for several months or years . |
| 19 | The difficulty occurs where consent to the transfer of contracts is needed , whether it be consent to transfer of the benefit or of the burden . |
| 20 | So you select from the information you 're given the facts that are relevant to the application you 're making that day , whether it be bail or whether it be a plea in mitigation . |
| 21 | Those critical reflections take their bearings from a discourse of their own , whether it be epistemology , moral philosophy , sociology , aesthetics , history or whatever . |
| 22 | A range of genres ensure that all students will find some titles to their taste , whether it be science fiction , horror stories , whodunnits , stories of well-known films , or classics . |
| 23 | Benedicta — was courteous to everyone , whether it be Hob 's wife , Ranulf the rat-catcher , or now a court gallant . |
| 24 | But it can be any image that comes to me at second-hand , whether it be postcard , film still , TV or whatever . |
| 25 | His purse it be stole . |
| 26 | Yes and then of course you get business organizations , the and much business is now internationally based , we 've , we recognize this recently from the erm the purchase of Rover by B M W erm but of course the big companies have operated for long across international boundaries , whether it be oil companies like Texaco or chemical companies like I C I erm or MacDonalds , you know one of the symbols that erm lets you know Russia had been opened up to the international community was the erm presence of a MacDonalds ' erm shop in Moscow . |
| 27 | Could we not agree today to ask the appropriate committee , whether it be Policy and Resources , the Resources Management of Regional Council , that when they 're examining this question of the carry forwards , that they themselves review the impact that this will have on , on the benefits of five B for this County ? |
| 28 | If a person suffers loss or damage as a result of a defect in some product , whether it be hardware or software , one or more of the following areas of law might provide a remedy : |
| 29 | It is essential that control should be kept over all stock , whether it be food , drink or items of equipment . |
| 30 | As a mixer with gin , Schweppes came through with honours — its tonic is the only one on the market which is sweetened with sugar , whether it be diet or regular . |