Example sentences of "[conj] [is] [pers pn] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it that she , she 's , she 's , she 's wondering what will happen to her family or children if they go abroad , or is she thinking that each country in the Community , perhaps having some special erm excellence of its own , ought to be shedding this example among the others so that we all raise ourselves to a common , higher level ? |
| 2 | Or is he saying that these benefits will not be taxable at all ? |
| 3 | Nor is it to deny that defective dependants will often , and quite understandably , attract far fiercer loyalties by that very fact . |
| 4 | Nor is it to deny that a society capable of providing for the fulfilment of all human needs , all the time , would eliminate the need for money altogether . |
| 5 | Nor is it to say that none of the Webbs ' criticisms of Owen is valid . |
| 6 | Clearly Clovis was currying favour with the catholic clergy at the start of the Visigothic war ; that is not to say that the war was a crusade , nor is it to say that the king had already been baptized . |
| 7 | Nor is it suggested that the smallholder should revert to primitive subsistence living , although he may need to give up some of the consumer society 's more expensive luxuries . |
| 8 | This has not been done in the interests of achieving a restrictively formalist , text-immanent reading of the story , nor is it suggested that contextual detail does not have a part to play in a multidimensional , interpretative process . |
| 9 | Nor is it to imply that difficulties can not be resolved . |
| 10 | [ This is not to say that the adjective must be ascriptive ; nor is it to require that the adjective should be restrictive — see Chapter 7 ; it merely states that there is no interaction between the properties as such . ] |