Example sentences of "[conj] is it " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( a ) To indicate the validity of the factual evidence ( i.e. where is it from ? ) |
| 2 | ‘ Or is it only that I do n't understand why as a consequence of being a mere male ? ’ |
| 3 | That increases the surface tension on the top of the coffee — or is it the specific gravity ? — so that when you dribble the cream slowly down over the back of the spoon it stays on the top . ’ |
| 4 | Think I must be blushing , and maybe she is too or is it her English rose complexion kissed , fuck , there I go , kissed ( I should be so lucky ! ) by sudden Mediterranean sunshine ? |
| 5 | Or is it Hull ? ’ |
| 6 | Or is it to be a full-length ballet with a maximum use of dancers ? |
| 7 | Or is it to be told by mimed dance and/or danced mime ? |
| 8 | Or is it from romantic poetry or music , such as the Massine-Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique or Balanchine 's Double Concerto based on music by Bach ? |
| 9 | The late appearance of Lonrho 's Tony Rowland in the guide of Fairy Godmother — or is it the Wicked Witch ? — offering to wave the magic wand and change the bulk of the debt into convertible preference shares could have offered a reprieve . |
| 10 | A little bit further up ( or is it down ? ) the valley on Freda 's Buttress , M. Evans and A. Thornton have been ‘ Frolic ’ ing around on the rightward starting corner at the lefthand end of the buttress , the result being E5 4c . |
| 11 | Q What does spaying — or is it spading — a bitch really entail ? |
| 12 | or is it all rust , ruin , death duties and mortgages |
| 13 | The SDLP 's deputy leader , Seamus Mallon , said : ‘ The question is — is this for the optics or is it for real ? ’ |
| 14 | Or is it time for ‘ Gilded Ken ’ again ? |
| 15 | ‘ It 's the fault of the Bundesbank , or is it the Bundestag ? ’ one perplexed representative said . |
| 16 | ‘ Is this England , or is it a madhouse ? ’ cries someone . |
| 17 | Or is it just the way it 's cooked ? ’ |
| 18 | I have a mouthful of cider from my waterbottle and eat the remains of a chicken , or is it a piece of lamb ? |
| 19 | Or is it as Head of the Commonwealth ? |
| 20 | Or is it rather a transgressive reinscription , a demonic perversion of the sacred ? |
| 21 | The spiritual ( or is it the psychic ? ) intensity of their presence goes together with a marvellous air of freedom and delicacy . |
| 22 | He said , ‘ Jane , is your goal to help the chimps , or is it to appear to be helping the chimps ? ’ |
| 23 | • Is the fryer available in free-standing form or is it available as a modular unit to build into a suite ? |
| 24 | ‘ Or is it that it does n't seem long ? he continued bitterly , knowing the futility of carping , but being unable to stop it . |
| 25 | For example , will start-up costs mean a diet of bought-in popular programming , or is it an opportunity to offer something entirely different ? |
| 26 | ‘ Or is it the case , as millions now believe , that she does not want a resolution to this dispute ? ’ |
| 27 | Are we witnessing the next step in the greening of the market , or is it just the latest move in the marketing of the greens ? |
| 28 | Or is it that When the vile or appalling ‘ lies quite close , but can not be assimilated … at the border of my condition as a living being ’ ( Julia Kristeva ) , what is produced is a momentarily heightened sense of one 's own aliveness , teetering on the brink of extinction ? |
| 29 | Or is it , as Leslie Dick suggests , that contemplating one 's own self-destruction or mutilation is actually a way of perceiving and relishing one 's wholeness — self-destructive fantasies as a kind of warped feast of narcissism ? |
| 30 | Or is it that the sudden perception of one 's own constant vulnerability provides , in its black , clouded way , a dazzling , near-religious feeling of revelation — this is how things really are ; that to be born is , by definition , to be a victim ? |