Example sentences of "[conj] is [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Compared with the other types of hair there are very few of them , but they play a vital role when the cat is exploring in poor light , or is hunting . |
| 2 | Or is scampi style . |
| 3 | Or is part of it missing so that you trust what you know but wonder what the rest is like ? |
| 4 | The question of whether the recognition of faces is a specific ability ( Yin , 1970 ; Tzvaras , Hécaen and Le Bras , 1971 ; Whiteley and Warrington , 1977 ) or is part of a more general visuo-spatial processing system is unsettled ( Ellis , 1975 ; Hay and Young , 1983 ) . |
| 5 | But there are times when a dispute is harder to resolve , or is part of a wider problem . |
| 6 | If the car belongs to someone else or is part of a hire purchase or leasing agreement , payment for the total loss or destruction of the car will normally be made to the cars legal owner . |
| 7 | If the car belongs to someone else or is part of a hire purchase or leasing agreement , payment for the total loss or destruction of the car will normally be made to the cars legal owner . |
| 8 | If the car belongs to someone else or is part of a hire purchase or leasing agreement , payment for the total loss or destruction of the car will normally be made to the cars legal owner . |
| 9 | A person who manages or is part of the same group as the investment manager of an investment trust company will not normally be regarded as an appropriate person to give independent advice in relation to that company . |
| 10 | Or is film , not cinema , the mass medium ? |
| 11 | Is everything preformed from the beginning , or is development more like the knitting of a fisherman 's net ? |
| 12 | Or is development just the accretion of a variety of different mechanisms ? |
| 13 | Or is dance going to be overloaded and the choreographic design lost in a mass of stage materials , such as too-heavy costumes , an overdose of stage effects and machinery or over-powerful sets which dwarf the dancers . |
| 14 | Or is change from a religious perspective a process which is sui generis ? |
| 15 | though free from any of the above defects , the contract stems from or is collateral to another agreement affected by illegality . |
| 16 | Ca n't I do this myself , or is damage inevitable ? |
| 17 | Or is base running a societal metaphor for gene flow ? |
| 18 | It was his conception , his baby , and for it he would tolerate most things , including his suspicion of Trotskyism — whether of the IMG or IS variety — and of what he may have seen as Rowbotham 's ‘ hippy sentimentality ’ . |
| 19 | Or is money time ? |
| 20 | Will the approach lead to greater job security , access to new markets for the target 's products and higher capital investment , or is rationalisation contemplated ? |
| 21 | This is the crux of it : Are there good and sufficient reasons to believe what we need to believe or is faith on shaky ground ? |
| 22 | Does detail build up to a whole or is detail obtained by microscoping the whole ? |
| 23 | Does the accused have to intend to cause or be reckless as to causing actual bodily harm or is intention to recklessness as to battery sufficient ? |
| 24 | Or is fascism merely a form of totalitarianism ? |
| 25 | Is the area team to be the focus or is organization at secondary level to be addressed ? |
| 26 | Is there a body of chemistry that , if you knew it , you 're all right , as it were , you could pass a certain exam and if you did n't know it , or is chemistry a little bit subjective in terms of its assessment ? |
| 27 | Or is dissatisfaction actually unrelated to these features of the home as the workplace ? |
| 28 | The question then is should angioplasty be attempted in these patients or is bypass grafting indicated ? |
| 29 | Does this happen in any sense these days , do you think , or is religion supsuned by politics and economics and other facts of life ? |
| 30 | Is it the responsibility of medicine to compensate for poor quality of life or to eliminate injustices by non-consenting life-terminating acts — or is death to be seen as a therapy ? |