Example sentences of "is [pron] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There is nothing more the hospital could have done , ’ he added . |
| 2 | Indeed we may speak of a ‘ new culture ’ created by modern communications , which affects everyone , particularly the younger generation , and is itself largely the result of technological advances which have created ‘ new ways of communicating , with new languages , new techniques and a new psychology ’ ( cf. |
| 3 | But this was just a game , and before some one points out that the stock market is itself just a game ( for somewhat privileged people ) , I should add that this was just a family game being marketed in Sheffield for Christmas . |
| 4 | A related point requiring emphasis is that much of what one is inclined to regard as the mere ‘ facts of the case ’ are often ‘ institutional ’ facts our recognition of which is itself partly the adoption of an attitude . |
| 5 | ‘ Dipsomania ? ’ enquired Henry Tyler with interest , ‘ or is she just a clairvoyant ? ’ |
| 6 | I mean sexy little telephone calls between he who will be king and his , is she a mistress , is she a girlfriend , is she merely a friend , but at any event she 's married and her husband 's in the next bedroom as far as we can gather , you know erm do those kind of conversations and would , I mean maybe it 's important to sort of say and Anne probably has this , but Peter might not , I mean when I grew up the Royal Family were a cert sort of image and you might have known about George the Third who was mad , I mean who else was brought up George the Third was mad and Geor an and this guy was a , a drunk and this guy was a a womaniser , this guy was this , but Victoria you know mourned for sixty years or whatever it was , but this Royal Family , I E the , the Royal Family with which I grew up and Anne did were really sweet nice little Windsors who behaved themselves and that was what was , went into our psychic and there was the odd crack about Phil the Great who 's the Queen 's husband , you know and how he perhaps had an eye for the ladies , but there was never any photographs of him being or any evidence that it might have gone further than that particular and basically there was , that any , there was the fact that he was a sailor when he married the Queen anyway so all sailors are like that are n't they ! |
| 7 | Fearful of upsetting those of a squeamish nature , I decided that an abrupt change of subject was in order and asked Jennifer about the guitars she was bringing with her to Europe : is she still an Ibanez 540S fan ? |
| 8 | What happened to Tina Turner then , is she now a thing of the past ? |
| 9 | Is there also the possibility that the environmental movement will reduce the demand for such forest products in the developed nations by educating the public in the undesirable environmental consequences ( e.g. the enhanced greenhouse effect and the loss of genetic resources ) of overexploitation ? |
| 10 | Is there somewhere an MOD store , perhaps underground at Box Hill , a long wooden building smelling of oil and blankets , with row upon row of heads , snipers for the use of , gathering dust while the rosy , hand tinted complexions fade to chalk and grey plaster ? |
| 11 | ‘ I m-mean , is there honestly no h-hope ? ’ |
| 12 | Is there here a tendency to reduce Christianity simply to a movement within history , describable in the favourite Romantic categories of inner awareness and historical development ? |
| 13 | Is there indeed no science to be found in the study of the phenomena of UFOs ? |
| 14 | Is there indeed a case for some form of national track authority in place of six regions ? |
| 15 | First , is there inevitably a limit to the resources available . |
| 16 | Why is there often a difference between formal and informal structures ? |
| 17 | As she walked home in the dark , she thought to herself , ‘ Why is there always a catch to it ? |
| 18 | Is there really no wood to be found on the way , or even on the mountain itself ? |
| 19 | Gamesmanship apart , is there really a chance to salvage the best opportunity yet for peace in the Basque region ? |
| 20 | Is there really a dichotomy of interests between the two ? |
| 21 | ‘ Is there really a tower still ? ’ |
| 22 | Is there really a job there ? |
| 23 | Erm , is there really a danger of this , I see that er , the A C C are supporting the proposal , but is it just another sort of Euro directive that is going to cause a lot of expense and distress to a lot of people who keep pigeons , which is on the whole not a , you know , I was going to say , not a very erm , expensive form of sport or entertainment whatever . |
| 24 | Is there actually a definition difficulty ? |
| 25 | So you 've , is there then a choice between going for socialism now , going straight into collectivization or delaying it and keeping that end product in sight ? |
| 26 | Is there now an erosion of purely ‘ humanistic ’ public ethics in favour of those which are nourished by religion ? |
| 27 | ‘ Is there still no news of the girl ? ’ |
| 28 | Is there still a drought in Britain ? |
| 29 | Is there still a crusade out there someplace ? ’ |
| 30 | Be it never so gloomy — is there still a sofa covered with black velvet ? |