Example sentences of "be it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Breaking a habit , be it over-eating , over-drinking , biting your nails or jumping to conclusions , is a tall order . |
| 2 | ’ Be it observed , therefore , ’ Seely concluded his diagnosis , ‘ that in these three vital matters , which taken together create an emergency greater than any through which this country has passed for centuries , no solution can be found unless all three parties combine to solve them . ’ |
| 3 | Yes , this is , this is , this er Who 's picking up Laura 's point which is that you get all the contractual arrangements er er done , but I mean it does n't mean you ca n't have the ritual , be it dressed with , you know , er a long |
| 4 | Be it taking accurate telephone messages , preparing a quotation , or cooking a meal , quality management means it is done properly , all the time . |
| 5 | Softly be it stated , but that is the reason for the difference between the decision of the Court of Appeal in Anisminic … and the House of Lords . |
| 6 | Other theories on the origin or evolution of syphilis and the other diseases caused by similar organisms suggest that different populations have their own endemic treponemal disease , be it yaws , pinta , or syphilis , the presence of which makes it hard for one of the others to establish itself . |
| 7 | And fell more and more in love with you , be it lunching with you , or dining with you , watching your innocent pleasure as you in turn watched the astronomical clock strike the hour . |
| 8 | If the Greeks do not get their debt under control — and that , be it repeated , means getting a 7%-of-GDP surplus on the ordinary part of their budget , so as to have enough money left over to pay what is due on the debt — they will one day find they can not sell the bonds that keep the debt going . |
| 9 | The key message emerging from the discussion is that the deployment of medical technology , be it drugs , equipment or new procedures , must rest on rigorous and continuous assessments of effectiveness cost and safety , and the appropriate selection of patients who can benefit . |
| 10 | All this Hubble surveyed in The Realm of the Nebulae which , be it noted , he wrote only about half-way through his astronomical working life . |
| 11 | But his superiority is short-lived , for the next line shows a recoil against the self : In the penultimate line Shakespeare achieves a fine double effect , the spelling ‘ eye ’ linking up with the ‘ eyes ’ ( his eyes , be it noted ) in the preceding lines , while the heard sense , ‘ more perjur 'd I ’ looks back to ‘ I am perjur 'd most ’ . |
| 12 | Like Brillat-Savarin 's famous fondue and the fonduta of Piedmont , the fondue of Franche-Comté is really a cream of eggs and cheese ( not , be it noted , scrambled eggs and cheese ) and has been rejected , I fancy , as being unauthentic either because it is more difficult to cook correctly than the Swiss version or because it is the cheese purveyors rather than the egg-marketeers who have been on the job . |
| 13 | And not only those plays , be it noted . |
| 14 | That reassurance , be it noted , expressly admits of exceptions . |
| 15 | The terror , be it noted , all safely in the past . |
| 16 | Sensitivity , be it noted , was the quality most often claimed for their offspring by the parents in the course of their conversations and consultations that evening . |
| 17 | In this rather basic definition — which , be it noted , makes no reference to self-consciousness as such — the ego is clearly not uniquely human . |
| 18 | If the reader is tempted to doubt the general validity of such a concrete and specific historical instance , let me remind him that Campanella — an ostensibly Christian author , be it noted — makes it perfectly clear that in his socialist utopia , the City of the Sun , ‘ no one can receive gifts from another . |
| 19 | Not , be it noted , consciously but subconsciously , and this decides their attitude . |
| 20 | Wherever you go nowadays , be it swimming , the pictures , fitness centres , or pop concerts they all appreciate that the unemployed can not afford to pay the full charge . |
| 21 | Then he touched their eyes saying , be it done unto you according to your faith . |
| 22 | He then , he performs it , be it done to you according to your faith . |
| 23 | Even the most energetic will need a rest after all the fun and there is a more relaxing side to Alton Towers , be it enjoying a breather on the terraces of The Explorer 's Club restaurant , taking a leisurely stroll through the 19th century gardens or visiting the Alton Towers Farm . |
| 24 | Be it enacted by the Queen 's most Excellent Majesty , by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal , and Commons , in this present Parliament assembled , and by the authority of the same , as follows : — |
| 25 | I think the the answer to that is that the reference e should be made to the village making a significant contribution to the development needs of Greater York , be it housing , employment or comm erm social and community . |
| 26 | Be it nuking the world , winning at Brand 's Hatch , or wrestling with pixies , will all this fantasy turn you into a blob-shaped brain-dead computer-zombie ? |
| 27 | But the labour involved in studying the objects and producing the data , be it weighing , chemical analysis or whatever , means that the scope of investigations has to be limited in some way . |
| 28 | Trouble was with old miners , they tended to exaggerate — a gleam of mineral seen decades previously often became transmogrified in mens ' minds to a wonderful thickness , be it lead , copper , tin , gold , or whatever . |
| 29 | And , Father , be it admitted , he had done much to raise up enemies to himself in this house . ’ |
| 30 | A very rich and therefore powerful man , as head keeper of Newgate , Fitzosbert had the pick of all the prisoners ' possessions as well as the sale of concessions , be it beds , sheets , coals , drink , food , even a wench . |