Example sentences of "is it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it criticism ? |
| 2 | Nor is it so regular that we can trust to it altogether to fix the exact date of any given work . |
| 3 | Is it Tuesday between eleven o'clock and noon ? |
| 4 | Nor is it a one-sided account of the injustices suffered by this people , or a defence of the energetic stranger . |
| 5 | And it could be said that not only is it about imitation — it is also , as are other tours de force , itself an imitation of something . |
| 6 | Is it a book about Poland ? |
| 7 | Is it that of a vicarious believer , if such a person is possible ? |
| 8 | Bernard Shaw once described Romeo and Juliet as ‘ the impetuous march of music ’ , and if ever there was a play of rich language , this is it . |
| 9 | And the next thing will be ‘ what is his attitude to this audition — is it positive ? ’ |
| 10 | Is it true that within the membership of Equity there is a fair proportion of deadwood ? |
| 11 | Yet is it possible to assert , he wrote , that work done with a lifting of the heart is better than work done with a contracting of the stomach ? |
| 12 | Is it because the right hand side is going so badly ? |
| 13 | Is it stronger than my desire to complete what I have begun ? |
| 14 | Is it because one does not turn to art for comfort ? |
| 15 | And what kind of answer is it ? |
| 16 | So : where is it happening ? |
| 17 | Is it an illusion to imagine that this is a merely modern phenomenon ? he wrote . |
| 18 | Is it not perhaps inevitable for all creatures with imagination , all creatures which can say no ? |
| 19 | Is it because I am at a loss as to how to go on ? |
| 20 | Is it only our culture ? he wrote . |
| 21 | Is it what is on the glass , or what is on the glass plus what is seen through the glass , or just the glass itself ? |
| 22 | Why is it doing this to me ? |
| 23 | But now I have started it , am well on with it , this is it , this is me , no avoiding the fact . |
| 24 | I have done what I wanted , or thought I wanted , I have pushed as hard as I could , and this is it . |
| 25 | It should have been done sooner , he wrote , but the truth is it would always have been too late . |
| 26 | Not only is it little consolation , he wrote , it is actually a further cause for despair , for it only shows that everything is far too late , that the glass was a dream of lateness and the work on the glass was a fantasy of lateness and the belief in the glass was the madness of one who has lost all sense of the meaning of lateness . |
| 27 | WHY is it that hotel owners and operators put so much emphasis on recruiting professional ‘ hotel designers ’ to create the right hotel , but , when it comes to the inclusion of leisure facilities , then they appear to approach any designer , with the impression that it can be addressed from a design viewpoint just like any other area ? |
| 28 | The Psion Organiser : is it a fancy calculator , or a battery-powered log book ? |
| 29 | The third aspect to this book is it 's 40-page recipe section . |
| 30 | The thing is it 's there . |