Example sentences of "[conj] [be] it an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Kronweiser was unsure about that ‘ we ’ : was it a plural , or was it an ironic reference to Viola Machin ? |
| 2 | Was your career decision a carefully thought out choice based on a thorough consideration of your strengths and values and of the opportunities available to you — or was it an intuitive leap into the dark ? |
| 3 | Nor is it an effective method of notifying the members , creditors or the general public , few of whom read the Gazette . |
| 4 | Nor is it an easy pink to obtain : in order that pink light should frame the shape of the little opera house and its windows all glow pink , 2,000 light bulbs were removed and replaced with others which workaday electricians ' pink not being the thing at all — had all been painted in the requisite shade by hand . |
| 5 | What they have to say is not the result of a private negotiation between self and text , nor is it an unmediated response of gender identity to a representation of masculinity : it is mediated by the position they take up as readers . |
| 6 | In this sense science is not a sociological category ( i.e. one that can be used to describe specific social forms ) nor is it an epistemological category ( i.e. one that can be used to account for the form or validity of knowledge ) . |
| 7 | The source of these difficulties is not the campaign of opposition waged by the British Medical Association , nor is it an incipient revolt among backbench MPs . |
| 8 | Nor was it an appealing thought to the king that while his own bureaucrats and servants were being thus harried , the pope 's men were assured of dispensations enough , and that since the resigned livings were vacated by papal decree , and therefore in effect at the Curia , they were to be filled by papal provision , not by the previous or usual patron . |
| 9 | Painting seems to be a popular pastime — but is it an appropriate image ? |