Example sentences of "is it [verb] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Anti-realism of this sort does not arise gratuitously , nor is it intended initially as a method of countering scepticism .
2 I think our problem here is it gets so windy with being on the corner .
3 Is it snowing out there ?
4 Is it breaking again ?
5 So the maximum is nine that people can hold on to and the thing about nine of course is it splits up into three threes and that 's why I say some people will group a twelve number into four threes or something like that or three fours because they 're all well within this span of conception .
6 What is it called again ?
7 ‘ What is it called then , this mighty magic ? ’
8 How much is it to go up anyway ?
9 How long is it to go now ?
10 What is it go on pull her .
11 Is it written down there ? ’
12 Is it referring just to a triumphalistic idea of atonement in which everything is just alright in the end ?
13 Is it too familiar , is it worn out ?
14 Is it worn out ?
15 The status of the text is unclear : is it providing only arbitrary examples ?
16 3. is it inclusive of as many aspects of experience as possible , or is it exclusive , ignoring or dismissing many other aspects ? — Is it welcoming potentially to all insights ?
17 Is it hanging up in your bedroom ?
18 I mean I think the first is that the kind of evidence one picks up , none of it on its own can be considered , I think , to be totally objective or totally valid , but what it does is it builds up a part of a picture and gradually different sorts of evidence build up a rather more complicated , rather more perhaps accurate picture of a situation , and it 's really the cross-checking of different kinds of evidence that in the end gives the thing some kind of validity .
19 For the purpose of this project text is categorised in terms of how it is produced ( i.e. printed by a machine or handwritten by a person ) , and how it is input to the computer for recognition ( i.e. is it recognised dynamically as a person writes or already existing text which is scanned in ) .
20 So , why has the PC taken so long to get to grips with the market and how is it faring today , some two years after the phrase ‘ desktop publishing ’ was coined .
21 So is it turned on now ?
22 Is it turned on ?
23 Is it turned off .
24 Why is it treated differently ?
25 Why is it taking so long ? ’
26 Hobbes does not tell us , but whatever it is it had better be something which a monkey does not have .
27 And what the female mimic does is it swims in and instead of releasing eggs , which is what the resident male expects , they release vast clouds of sperm and of course fertilize some of the eggs .
28 Is it tuned in to your every mood ?
29 It is clear , therefore , that rules of English law which restrict access to courts , tribunals and remedies may fall foul of the principle of effective protection recognized by EC law ; and the greater the restriction , the more likely is it to do so .
30 Or is it blinks fast in the other direction ?
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