Example sentences of "is this [Wh adv] " in BNC.

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1 Is this where the National Dock Labour Board came into existence ?
2 ‘ And is this where your sister , Mrs — er … . ’
3 Yes Is this where Jenny used to live , or still lives ?
4 Materials there Yes , this is place , is this where they , very nice
5 Is this where you 're told to go
6 Is this what life is for , is this why my parents brought me up with so much love and care ?
7 Is this why we have made so little progress ?
8 Is this why your Bruckner is so formidable ?
9 And is this why you are now living in an abandoned farm building near Glastonbury , in Somerset ?
10 We can do more than to reject such descriptions of ourselves ; we can ask further questions : are children like this ? is this why children are not autonomous ?
11 Is this why there is a disagreement within the government ?
12 Is this your problem ? , is this why you ended up with a
13 Is this why you never married ? ’
14 Is this why the myth swims through our memory ?
15 Is this why you were following her around ?
16 Is this why you are asking all these questions ? ’
17 Is this why you are so unhappy ? ’
18 Is this why her self-portraits form such a compelling and challenging series of images ?
19 Is this why it was so secret ?
20 Is this why the Unit and all its works seem to have disappeared from the records — because it was unthinkable that such a document should officially exist ?
21 Is this why so many comedians are double-acts , to frame and define the joke , by providing the necessary response , if no one else laughs ?
22 Is this why , we ask ourselves , the Local Education Authority , out of one hundred and thirty teachers it promised extra to employ during this current financial year , there are only sixty three visible new teachers , and sixty seven of them are alas imaginary ?
23 Is this how you usually greet long-lost cousins ? ’
24 Is this how you put in your time now ? ’ said Cowley .
25 Is this how he rewards the loyalty of the most gifted player of the last decade , arguably ever ?
26 Is this how you want to go down in history ?
27 Is this how you spoke in your interview then Stuart ?
28 My question concerns the Shetland Island project and the question is this how much has the withdrawal of the Board of Social Responsibility from the Shetland Islands project got to do with the Board 's policy on social responsibility appointed staff being sympathetic to the Christian faith , and how much has it got to do with the fact that the Shetland Islands Council no longer need the Board of Social Responsibility to be able to spend charitable trust money , in other words oil money , without jeopardizing community charge support grant ?
29 Is this how they teach you at Oxford now ?
30 Is this how we should think of love ?
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