Example sentences of "is [adj] [coord] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The continuing use after that time of recognition is a time of testing whether control is possible or whether it has indeed been lost . |
| 2 | All these questions can help you decide whether the ad is right or whether it needs changing . |
| 3 | Is it not the case , as was pointed out at the time of the French Revolution by the Abbé Sieyes , that if the second chamber agrees with the first it is superfluous and if it disagrees it is mischievous ? |
| 4 | In 1600 , the renegade monk Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake for numerous heresies , including the proposition that the universe is infinite and that it contains an infinite number of worlds . |
| 5 | A more recent commentator on Marx 's concept of ideology , Jorge Larrain , accepts that the concept is vague and that it has to be worked out from what little Marx wrote ( Larrain 1979 : 36 ) . |
| 6 | When Z 1 and Z 2 are pure reactances , is real and since it follows that The solution to equation ( 9.13 ) implies that or which means that there is no reduction in amplitude through a section of the filter . |
| 7 | We know then that the legend is false and that it became attached to a much older custom , but what was the Horngarth itself and for what purpose was it erected ? |
| 8 | Should it be abolished either because its use is unjustified or because it has fallen into disuse ? |
| 9 | Lamping , involving the use of running dogs , is after-harvest night activity which can be continued through the winter in those situations where cover is sparse and where it does n't interfere with anything else . |
| 10 | ICL says this upward trend is continuing and that it has gained another 1% in 1992 . |
| 11 | The major criticism of this approach to describing organisations is not that it is inaccurate but that it ignores all the informal and interpersonal aspects of organisations and concentrates too heavily on the formal aspects of work organisations . |
| 12 | The British experience was perceived by Michael Foot when in Opposition in the following way : ‘ I think one of the most serious threats to the power of the House of Commons is the notion which is growing up that you can have a meeting in Downing Street of the Executive and the CBI and the TUC who make an agreement that is binding and when it comes to the House of Commons the House of Commons has not the power … to tear that bargain apart ’ ( quoted in Grant 1977 , p. 169 ) . |
| 13 | Now the especially if it is colourless or if it has n't got a smell , you think ooh I 'm not putting that down . |
| 14 | Of course the system is expensive and while it saves paperwork it does not appear to reduce registration times as such . |
| 15 | It was once considered obvious that the earth was flat and that the sun went around the earth , yet since the time of Copernicus and Galileo , we have had to adjust to the idea that the earth is round and that it goes around the sun . |