Example sentences of "is it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Attendance can I just erm ask is it er possible attendance less unexplained absence or is it actual attendance plus explained absences for attendance ? |
| 2 | and the tray , that 's it though , that is it actual Christmas drink that goes round the room and then the presents come out I look out the window and the snow blow |
| 3 | . Is it actual pain then , or stiffness ? |
| 4 | Nor is it impossible that she believed this legend . |
| 5 | Neither is it impossible to change . |
| 6 | Not only is it impossible to demonstrate whether the writers of classical Greece really attained ‘ objectivity ’ ; but our regard for them and our ability to learn from them do not require it . |
| 7 | Is it impossible that your sex life might improve after the menopause ? |
| 8 | Not only is it impossible now to tell what the figures for the future will actually mean for the service , but even the informed observer or MP can not tell what has been happening . |
| 9 | Nor is it impossible that bands of laeti or gentiles were settled in some , if not all , during the late fourth century , but unfortunately the relevant chapter of the Notitia Dignitatum , which listed these barbarian recruits to the Roman army in Britain , is missing . |
| 10 | Now when you say it 's sore , is it sore ? |
| 11 | Or is it sore down the sides ? |
| 12 | This is n't a mountain stage , by the Tour 's standards , but neither is it flat . |
| 13 | Never is it allowable for an individual or a team to have an off day for the very simple and plausible reason that they are just tired ! |
| 14 | Is it boiling hot ? |
| 15 | Is it rare , is it splendid ? |
| 16 | But how much is it general and how much John Major . |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | Is it possible still to buy this kind of edging , and if so , can you please supply details of the manufacturer or stocklist ? |
| 19 | In consciousness alone is it possible to confront at least some empirical properties and apprehend them directly , and if consciousness is analysed in terms of some purely non-mental notion this grasp is lost ; just as , in the analysis of thought , if the irreducible generality of thought is analysed away , our ability to think and refer is wished away with it . |
| 20 | IS IT POSSIBLE to be too nice to be a television presenter ? |
| 21 | I only mean to preface this discussion of cultural difference with an awkward question : in the world we have , is it possible for us — any of us — not to have at least some inferior others ? |
| 22 | Nor is it possible to say with confidence how much of the increase is due to melting glaciers and how much to thermal expansion . |
| 23 | Is it possible to write about Throwing Muses without confining their strange and terrible beauty , taming it , making it easier to live with ? |
| 24 | All objects , such as trees , stones , and books , whether in their tangible or visible aspects , are such that their ‘ esse [ their mode of existence ] is percipi [ to be perceived ] , nor is it possible they should have any existence , out of the minds or thinking things which perceive them ’ . |
| 25 | How then is it possible that a gesture I saw performed by one person , a gesture that was connected to her , that characterized her and was part of her individual charm , could at the same time be the essence of another person and my dreams of her ? |
| 26 | How is it possible for someone to take my or anybody 's sin upon himself ? |
| 27 | How is it possible for Christ 's death to affect me ? |
| 28 | Is it possible that the statue which was scientifically examined was actually the copy , and the original — the only complete Roman bronze statue to have been discovered north of the Alps — was sent off to Spain , never to be seen again ? |
| 29 | Is it possible to predetermine the types of conduct regarded as indecent ? |
| 30 | Nor is it possible , practical or necessary to recreate precisely those conditions which were only achieved after decades , in the old land meadows , of a specialist system of grazing and mowing supported only by an annual dressing of fold-yard manure . |