Example sentences of "[is] it a [noun sg] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 How is it a problem to them ?
2 Is it a function of our body clock or our life-style , or due to some interaction between the two ?
3 Nor is it a question of our seeking a dispensation from the holy see to accede to some request locally .
4 Is it a question for us ?
5 Is it a by-product of our musical inventiveness , this perpetual desire to applaud the new and deride the old ?
6 Are they about to waste time they have n't got , bound to lose or is it a challenge to them ?
7 That forthright common sense does not come from the Conservative Newsline ; nor is it a quote from my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State or my hon. Friend the Member for Enfield , Southgate ( Mr. Portillo ) .
8 It is not something that I have and you do not , or vice versa ; nor is it a commodity with which some people have the good fortune to be more generously endowed than others .
9 Or is it an opportunity for you to be assertive — to go back to the shop , and request that they cash up and return your fiver ?
10 Is it an affirmation of what his junior energy Minister says : that it will be acceptable for the Scottish Office to be staffed by Members from constituencies south of the border , or of what his Foreign Secretary and Secretary of State for Scotland have said in the past 24 hours : that nothing will happen , or is he considering the possibility of affording the Scottish people the right to determine their own future in a democratic fashion ?
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