Example sentences of "[conj] [is] [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Subject : Another where is he now question |
| 2 | Or is something else going on ? |
| 3 | Is she giving assistance to her grandmother , or is she really helping her own mother to bear a heavy burden ? |
| 4 | Or is it just assumed you would do an open day ? |
| 5 | Is , is , is that different to any other land law before , is well is , is this a new idea or is it just picking up on other |
| 6 | Or is it just trundling off on its own ! |
| 7 | Or is it just to do the shopping ? |
| 8 | And does it go back earlier in other countries , or is it just restricted to Britain and America ? |
| 9 | Is it in one particular area or is it just scattered |
| 10 | Or is it best to write first and see if they are interested ? |
| 11 | Is it a house of prayer or is it unhelpfully cluttered ? |
| 12 | or is it only to do with doors opening ? |
| 13 | Or is it possibly staining blood vessels that , that are under attack by vascular invasion ? |
| 14 | Or is he secretly selling us to the South ? |
| 15 | Or is he really planning to speed up his reaction to Gorbachev and Eastern Europe ? |
| 16 | The real question in each such case is ‘ Does the patient really mean what he says or is he merely saying it for a quiet life , to satisfy someone else or because the advice and persuasion to which he has been subjected is such that he can no longer think and decide for himself ? ’ |
| 17 | Nor is she too bothered any more about letting go of the occasional secret . |
| 18 | Nor is it simply looking at them with no further end in mind , which might be the listless action of someone who can think of nothing else to do . |
| 19 | The voting population is not spread conveniently evenly throughout the jurisdiction ; nor is it conveniently organised in neatly organised batches of identical size for other purposes . |
| 20 | It is not entirely clear whether these were improved native stock or were imported , nor is it conclusively proven that the Saxons brought the large type of red cattle to southern England , establishing the ancestors of the heavy modern red breeds now found in Devon , Sussex and Lincolnshire . |
| 21 | Resistance does not operate outside power , nor is it necessarily produced oppositionally : it is imbricated within it , the irregular term that consistently disturbs it , rebounds upon it , and which on occasions can be manipulated so as to rupture it altogether : |
| 22 | Nor is it much help to say that x comes after y in the number series , for this merely involves replacing one polyadic predicate with another , quite apart from the fact that " after " does not necessarily mean " greater " unless serial ordering is associated with a relation of magnitude . |
| 23 | Nor is it much use to put them in a pocket , for the rigours of the downward journey are such that they arrive at ground level in the form of an omelette . |
| 24 | There are no relations of power without resistances ; the latter are all the more real and effective because they are formed right at the point where relations of power are exercised ; resistance to power does not have to come from elsewhere to be real , nor is it inexorably frustrated through being the compatriot of power . |
| 25 | Nor is it enough to give them details of exercise and sport and then assume that they will simply become more active . |
| 26 | Nor is it enough to point to other facets of the book provision system , such as the reservations service or staff relationships with readers , as a palliative . |
| 27 | Nor is there much point in attempting to give a general impression of a show , as there is nothing to hold it together , unlike a group show with a programme or a manifesto to consider . |
| 28 | Nor is there much comfort for the liberal view to be drawn from the motives behind the strike wave . |
| 29 | Nor is there much to hope for from other domestic buyers . |
| 30 | There is , so far as I know , no solid evidence for any of these beliefs ; nor is there much to show that the family is , in fact , changing in its significance within society or in its psychological implications for child upbringing , albeit that pressures upon it are increasing just as they are upon individuals by reason of the increasing complication and tempo of life in Western society . |