Example sentences of "is [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is now plenty of choice for the investor who knows what he or she wants to invest in , but there is still something of a vacuum for investors with less than £50,000 which they want to put into shares directly . |
| 2 | For the reading parent there is now plenty of help . |
| 3 | All that I have , and all that I am is now yours , I invest it in you , it is yours . |
| 4 | When it comes to the second aspect — marketing the services offered by departments — it is possible to content that ‘ top management does not understand what marketing is or its importance to an organisation 's success . |
| 5 | By then the ‘ monster ’ has gone through many transformations , unable to decide who he is or which of his many disguises represents the true ‘ him ’ ; but he can only find liberty by killing the father who sired him . |
| 6 | The voters , it is said , ‘ do not know who he is or what he stands for ’ . |
| 7 | The perception of the problem will differ , depending on such things as the views and experiences of individuals , and their beliefs about what is or what ought to be . |
| 8 | Can it market itself more effectively to its potential customers , many of whom are unclear about what factoring is or what it can do for their company ? |
| 9 | As an index it is rather unsatisfactory since it tells us very little about how active a person is or what he believes … |
| 10 | They 'll just think it 's a pair of boots er have n't got a clue what , what unison is or what it 's gon they know they 're gon na try and amalgamate the unions to strengthen that 's what I never managed to get through . |
| 11 | To build up a character you need to know something about that character , what sort of person that character is or what sort of animal that character is . |
| 12 | It is not always clear what the public interest is or what serves it . |
| 13 | In The Fire of Love he writes : Nowadays too many are consumed with a desire for knowledge rather than for love , so that they scarcely know what love is or what is its delight . |
| 14 | And it 's gon na be either what a a a short it is or what a . |
| 15 | Do n't know who 's paying for it all whether council is or what ? |
| 16 | And entertainment as fantasy is not acceptable , though I do n't think everyone has to go to the extremes of U2 or Jimmy Somerville , or whoever it is or whatever their politics . |
| 17 | ‘ Once she tells us where the book is or she leads us to it , she dies . ’ |
| 18 | You must start , you forget there where he is or she is , but you 've got to start from your actual capacity otherwise you 're in danger in that . |
| 19 | I do n't know whether there is or there is n't . |
| 20 | 1.1 Duty not to compete within the duration of the employment contract This aspect of the duty of fidelity requires the employee not to work for any person who is or who might be in competition with his employer during the working day . |
| 21 | Now the mission to Colesfield was with the crew that you have pictures , have the picture of , as you look at the picture from left to right standing in the back is or I should say , , , and his home town was Louisiana , he was a waste gunner . |
| 22 | disputing if it whether it is or it is n't , but how can we show that it is ? |
| 23 | Whether it is or it is n't does n't matter what does matter is its ' performance and to test this you have to fit the device . |
| 24 | It either is or it ai n't . |
| 25 | Chairman I , I , I am and some of my colleagues a little confused on this paper , erm and I really ask that I , I understood that when we discussed this last , erm that the , the minor work which was one , one debated , erm was going to be increased to two million and that two million er , two million spend was going to come out of the existing budget , I 'm not quite sure from this whether it is or it is n't , could you explain ? |
| 26 | She used to send us erm like I think , she did n't send us one this year though , she 's erm like , wherever she is she 'd send us a Christmas card , an Easter card she did n't say where she is or anything . |
| 27 | This is so whatever the formal or legal scope of the institution . |
| 28 | This is so whatever the size of the shareholdings in the company . |
| 29 | twisted , warped , it 's in a sense it 's exactly the same as the circle , you know you draw the circle it 's a line that starts there and goes perfectly round and comes back to the starting point , it 's exactly the same as that , but it 's been pushed out at the edges , it 's been dented in here , it 's not recognisable now as that same circle , although it 's what it is , and you see what , what has happened is although we 've sinned , although we 've come short of God 's plan , God has n't destroyed the whole thing , he could so easily just taken up the human life and crumple it up and thrown it on the heap , said finished with them , ca n't be bothered , I 'll start all over again with new people , I 'll have a new creation , well he did have a new creation , but he kept that same creation , he said I 'm gon na work on it , I 'm gon na do something with it , I 'm gon na restore it , I 'm gon na ransom it , I 'm gon na redeem it , I 'm gon na make it again , not just like it was , but I 'm gon na make it even more wonderful and more beautiful . |
| 30 | What is , what is happening at the moment is although they ca n't afford the money for the full , for the full treatment they are making an allocation of money to improve matters round , round that area , which will be er , cos I , I told them that some of the pensioners were , w walking round by the bankment , it 's pouring of rain , which is perfectly true and that er the engineer should go round and see for himself and plus the fact how many of these people ever travel by bus , or do they always go by car , no , and also I brought up about bus shelters and all those sort of things , but any way , there will be some improvements for the bus station in the future . |