Example sentences of "[is] [pron] [adv] [adj] [verb] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it wholly chimerical to hope that a newly elected Tory government with an unassailable majority might do its duty , however painful for itself , and take the first steps to reverse this pernicious evil and restore the tried and tested order of our ancestors by which only those fitted to rule have any right to elect the government of this country under the Crown ? |
| 2 | But is it also realistic to assume that the West might tolerate it if Mr Gorbachev decided that the Romanian people , not unlike the people of Panama , deserve to enjoy democracy , and that the Soviet Union should send some of its military across the border to dispose of the Ceausescu family and their killer Securitas forces ? |
| 3 | Is it also true to say that their guess is often no better than your own ? |
| 4 | Is it just naive to hope that a voluntary system will work ? |
| 5 | Is it strictly true to say that ‘ An act done before the giving of a promise to make a payment or to confer some benefit can sometimes be consideration for the promise ’ ? |
| 6 | ‘ Why is it so hard to accept that I could feel all that too ? ’ |
| 7 | For instance , is it really important to realise that the ollie to nosepick above is on an exceptionally harsh bank in Nottingham ? |
| 8 | Is it too fanciful to suggest that once schools know why pupils do not want to come to classes , teachers can set about making school more attractive for at least some of the disaffected ? |
| 9 | Is it too imaginative to suppose that all these consequences would follow an abolition of the power to dissolve ? |