Example sentences of "[is] [conj] [is] " in BNC.

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1 Action : Keyword DESCRIPTION-IS , CODE-IS or BINARY-IS not found or wrongly spelt .
2 The two largest union federations , Turk-Is and Hak-Is , which organized the strike , demanded an increase of 500 per cent in workers ' pay and called for an end to restrictive labour laws .
3 This will include any module whose DESCRIPTION-IS and CODE-IS classification begins with either TOP or CONF .
4 its DESCRIPTION-IS and CODE-IS classification in the configuration file satisfies both the description and code filter .
5 It is similarly tempting to think of the colour image as hovering in the background , somehow anticipated by the mind ; but this is a metaphor , for the image either is or is not in consciousness .
6 They do have a medical examination as part of the process of coming here and in the course of that medical examination it is sometimes disclosed that a woman is or is not a virgin , and that is sometimes noted on the medical report and from time to time some ECO 's have used that piece of evidence in making a decision about the relationship of the wife ; I have always condemned it and by and large it does not happen .
7 One might distinguish three kinds of policy areas in which a country either is or is not sovereign .
8 Since marriage is essentially a relationship between man and woman , the validity of the marriage depends … on whether the respondent [ Miss Ashley ] is or is not a woman …
9 ‘ Tell your client , ’ said the voice at the other end of the phone , ‘ that he or she would have a better chance of establishing who is or is not responsible for his or her dustbins if he or she employed a lawyer who did n't address his inquiries to people whose principal concern is pharmacology . ’
10 For example , what is or is not negotiable , what will be your highest and lowest demand , what are your maximum and minimum concessions ?
11 If you have any doubts about what is or is not appropriate for a child of a given age , then seek advice from your doctor , a child psychologist or health visitor , or from other parents , particularly those whose children are older than yours .
12 A fourth and very important influence on the rate of recorded crime is the effect of changes in the law , which may lead to an alteration in the definition of what is or is not a crime .
13 Rather than just giving a ‘ yes ’ or ‘ no ’ to a carefully put question from the interviewer the informant can control much more the direction of the discussion and can therefore decide what is or is not relevant to a particular situation .
14 That does not mean that the law should change with every passing fancy — crimes such as theft , fraud , murder , etc. will never become fashionable — but ‘ social ’ crimes such as publishing indecent or obscene material are dependent on society 's perception of what is or is not indecent or obscene at the time , and the legislation of one period may be inappropriate in another period of time , to the extent that resorting to the courts to deal with the matter may be quite inappropriate and ineffective .
15 Social perceptions of what is or is not obscene or indecent may change but the legislation may remain to trap the unwary in a much more liberal climate ; and just because the legislation has not been used in many years that does not mean it will not be applied again .
16 It will provide you with two sides of an A4 sheet giving you very little detail about the property except that it is or is not worth the agreed purchase price .
17 When thinking how to act , I am in the world of common sense where something either is or is not , and where it is a matter of course that I can be in touch with it through highly subjective impressions .
18 When would you be able to devote the time , or the knowledge , to select , as you call it , what is or is not fit to publish ?
19 This might seem to show a strong awareness on their part of the workings of power : it is relative power that determines what is or is not socially valued .
20 ‘ Until we know how your son died it is difficult to be sure what is or is not relevant .
21 The third force is the headteachers , for it is they who have the most decisive influence on what it is or is not safe to do or say in a school .
22 If the English artist Mark Quinn can get his own head , cast in his own frozen blood , on display in the Saatchi Gallery in London ; if the Italian papers can be filled with agitated articles about whether ‘ a cardboard box covered in cloth , with bits of cardboard , bone glue , red pen , tempera and oil paint ’ , until recently exhibited at the Brera Academy in Milan , is or is not an authentic , therefore meaningful , work by the shamanesque German , Joseph Beuys ; if Duchamp 's own famous urinal of 1917 can grace the Palazzo Grassi in Venice as from this month , then surely there is room for those centuries-old objects of ancient devotion to be resurrected as the focus of the new cult .
23 Moreover , ‘ structural ’ relations between them can be clarified , by showing for instance that this computation is or is not a necessary prerequisite or accompaniment of that one .
24 Sociologists of religion are not in a position to say whether or not a particular movement is or is not ‘ really ’ a religion .
25 One either is or is not legally entitled to an American passport , or to benefit from a will ; difficulties , if any , crop up in satisfying the qualification .
26 Secondly , what is or is not needless killing will again be determined by the role of the animals in the practices in which we employ them .
27 They might , in some cases , indicate a facility of explicitness , but even here we have to be careful since what is or is not explicit is always relative .
28 But this image of autonomy and of the self can be threatening , too , to women who do have a strong allegiance to feminism ; and the threat intersects with assumptions that have been made in some feminist discourse about who is or is not ‘ really ’ a feminist .
29 The other main dichotomy has to do with whether the dialogue is or is not attributed — that is , whether the text is explicit or implicit about who is speaking .
30 While both radicals and conservatives might agree about most of the categories , they may well disagree about what is or is not " developmental " .
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