Example sentences of "or [is] it [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Equally , once it has assented , may a third party withdraw its assent without notice , or is it bound by the restrictions on unilateral termination of treaties ?
2 That 's fine , erm what sort I mean what are we , are we back in back in the old problems we 've had before with or is it written in something else ?
3 Do you do most of your work by travelling overseas , or is it done at Sussex ?
4 Is it endowed with some kind of abstract , almost Platonic existence , or is it seen in terms of its social context ?
5 Do we have local management of this school or is it run by the Department ?
6 Is it been a cold call and you 've qualified it by getting an advertisement out there or is it qualified by actually getting the money in your hand .
7 Is participation voluntary and welcomed by the clients , or is it demanded of them by the action system , the change agent or even by some extraneous system , as in some parent-teacher associations ?
8 For example , if a father gives a child a motor car or jewellery and the child sells the gift and invests the proceeds , is the income from the investment paid to the child by virtue or in consequence of the gift or is it paid to him or her in consequence of the sale of an asset which belonged absolutely to the child ?
9 Can such an approach produce change in psychology , or is it confined to exposing the endless subtle differences between signifiers and signifieds ?
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