Example sentences of "[conj] [is] [pron] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 Or is it just assumed you would do an open day ?
2 And does it go back earlier in other countries , or is it just restricted to Britain and America ?
3 Is it in one particular area or is it just scattered
4 Is it a house of prayer or is it unhelpfully cluttered ?
5 Nor is she too bothered any more about letting go of the occasional secret .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 :
9 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 .
10 For another thing the most profitable processes today simply do not need large amounts of labour and is it seriously expected by the government that as long as we avoid being tied down by the social chapter , we shall become such a reservoir of cheap labour , that we shall become cheaper and more exploitable than the labour force in the Third World ?
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