Example sentences of "[conj] [be] it [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or is it when you get in maybe a quarter of an inch … and then you withdraw like a bat out of hell ? |
| 2 | ‘ Is it when we are going to die , Angel , or is it when we have committed a crime ? ’ |
| 3 | Or is it because in a way I share their disapproval ? |
| 4 | Is it to stop the rain spoiling their designer hairstyles or is it because they may get damp and catch the sniffles ? |
| 5 | Is it because it 's a Tuesday , your mother 's gone shopping and there 's only one banana yoghurt left in the fridge , or is it because Channel 4 's new breakfast show is so bad ! ? |
| 6 | Or is it because I am worn out by passivity , by having to accept and bear and endure , and because I am quite clever and resourceful , I have just turned , like the proverbial worm ? |
| 7 | Is their failure to remember dreams on waking up in the morning because they " really " do n't dream , or is it because they fail to remember them ? |
| 8 | ‘ Or is it because you 're the King and you must marry me ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Or is it because I did it from choice ? ’ she demanded sarcastically , shouting him down . |
| 10 | Or is it because we already have quite enough issues to squabble over ? |
| 11 | Or is it because they do not actually know what goes on at field sport events such as shooting ? |
| 12 | Can I ask is it because it was too small a group , or is it because no one can make up their mind where they belong ? |
| 13 | Or is it because there 's a different culture in the north and south because the , the two parts of China are very different , so you do n't know whether it 's the Communist Party that 's determining this difference or whether it 's just because of a difference of culture there . |
| 14 | Is it because I studied in your country — or is it because I studied at all ? ’ |
| 15 | Or is it because it 's my round ? |
| 16 | Is that because it 's full of chalk or is it cos |
| 17 | ‘ And before that , or was it after — there were the Barbary pirates ? |
| 18 | Or was it because it was Finn who kissed her and not a man like the men in whose arms she had imagined herself when she used to imagine things like that , in the past ? |
| 19 | Or was it because he had had two daughters before the son he wanted eventually arrived and by then he was too old , with all the eagerness and spontaneity of early fatherhood dried up ? |
| 20 | Or was it because he was the way he was that she had walked out one day when Dadda was at work and he at school , leaving a note on the kitchen table and the remains of the week 's housekeeping money ? |
| 21 | Or was it because the show was set in the 1950s , the sun always shone , the table always groaned under Ma Larkin 's home-made goodies , and nothing nasty ever happened ? |
| 22 | that they they were n't as s solid as the older men let's say or was it because they had n't |
| 23 | Team spirit it was that refused to leave out the reserves or was it because there was an accountant in one of the teams . |
| 24 | It was not that Nelson had died there , nor was it because many years ago the crucifix that hung there demanded obeisance . |
| 25 | On the Labour side , what seemed to be a golden opportunity was not taken , nor was it when it first arose , namely to pin responsibility for the Gulf war , and the sufferings of British hostages in it , on the government 's blunder in not seeing that Saddam Hussein would invade Kuwait . |
| 26 | And is it because of them that you 're worried about the future — do you get depressed as a grandparent ? |
| 27 | And was it because he did n't want to leave ? |
| 28 | But is it because they left it too late or something then ? |
| 29 | But is it because they are like him ? |