Example sentences of "[pron] [is] [coord] [is] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Instead of getting worked up about who is or is n't in the Queen 's Honours List why not demand the scrapping of a far more cynical honours system University Honorary Degrees . |
| 4 | Have your detective say it is very important to tell whether something is or is not done in a certain way ; then show that thing being done in either of the ways mentioned ; but immediately before that happens put in , quite boldly , what it is you want to slip past your reader . |
| 5 | The difficulty in the case of shares is to fit them into any normal legal category ; but one is unlikely to be left in doubt whether something is or is not a share . |
| 6 | Thus a fifth-century Thessalian inscription uses the phrase ‘ whether under a tagia or in an atagia ’ , that is , whether there is or is not a tagos ( Syll. 55 and ZPE , 1980 , p. 272 ) . |
| 7 | It is and is not there . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | We may often be sure that we can judge by the quality of the drawing or painting , but there are always at least some cases in which our uncertainty is deepened by the absence of the expected signal , that it is or is not intended to be art . |
| 11 | " A great player like Seve wants basically confirmation of what he is or is not doing right , " explained Bob . |
| 12 | For example , what is or is not negotiable , what will be your highest and lowest demand , what are your maximum and minimum concessions ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | While both radicals and conservatives might agree about most of the categories , they may well disagree about what is or is not " developmental " . |
| 24 | Yet if one observes this battle more closely one may see that it is waged around what one might call the ephemera of sex : what is seen , what is said , what is written rather than what is or is not concerned with sexual reality . |
| 25 | The term ‘ professional ’ will thus be used in a looser way than would be indicated by the conceptual analysis of what is or is not a profession . |
| 26 | This is a question to be considered in the round , and nothing is gained by the introduction of shifting burdens of proof , which serves only to break down into formal steps what is in reality a single appreciation of what is or is not unfair . |
| 27 | However , as explained above , too much emphasis on economic analysis of each situation generates an impossible situation for firms who wish to know what is or is not permitted . |
| 28 | What is or is not " in the neighbourhood " of the premises must be a question of degree and of circumstances in each case . |
| 29 | The section resolves the point , although the question of what is or is not immediate is , of course , still a matter of degree . |
| 30 | If rape is defined as ‘ carnal knowledge of a woman without her consent ’ , then it makes nonsense of the proposition that the jury is the trier of fact if the judge takes it upon himself to tell the jury what is or is not consent . |