be that as it may formal

"Be it as it may, we can face death!

Be it as it may, a 361 powered Excellence was anything but a slouch.

But be it as it may, he repeated a second time, "Don't shoot.

There is no remedy for that which is past, be it as it may."

But be it as it may.

'Be it as it may, Madame Barronneau approved of me.

But be it as it may, the body warmth of the beautiful film star whose name still eluded Rhodan, was very real indeed.

Be it as it may, men of vast intellect have been born on their soil, and they have made or applied the principal inventions.

be it as it may, they were fine hips."

Be it as it may, it is certain that the attitude, eye, voice, manner, of the speaker for a moment struck the party below to silence.

Be it as it may, his books have no melody, no emotion, no humor, no relief to the dead prosaic level.

'Be it as it may, Jim's slumbers were disturbed by a dream of heavens like brass resounding with a great voice, which called upon him to Awake!

Be it as it may, though, I would have summoned you soon in any case, for your brother and the physician have news from your mother they say you must hear."

- Be it as it may, it is a Question, why this Matter was bro't on and finished so early, and when so small a Number as thirty, if so many, were present.

Perhaps a good example of the subtlety of the Spanish subjunctive would be the way the tense (past, present or past) modifies the expression "be it as it may" (literally "be what it be"):

Be it as it may, it is certain he had deserted from a home ship in the early gold-digging days, and in a few years became talked about as the terror of this or that group of islands in Polynesia.

Be it as it may, I entreat, I charge you to neglect nothing in such an examination, in order that when you see my son you may communicate the result of your observations to him, and point out the most suitable remedies.

Be it as it may, the skeleton was, as a general rule, not disarticulated but buried in a squatting position, with knees to the chin in the round urns and knees at the tip of the boot in the oblong urns.

But be it as it may, this wench of Lorraine has, these three-quarters of a year, been about the Sieur Robert de Baudricourt, now commanding for the King at Vaucouleurs, away in the east, praying him to send her to the Court.

But be it as it may be, I will marry thee; and to that end I have been with Sir Oliver Martext, the vicar of the next village, who hath promis'd to meet me in this place of the forest, and to couple us.

Be it as it may, nobody cares for it now; the glory has departed, the Sultan is an imbecile youth with two thumbs on his left hand and an uncertain and beggarly revenue extorted from a miserable population and stolen from him by his many uncles.