Example sentences of "[conj] [is] it [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is that goody goody or is it just good manners ? |
| 2 | Or is it just plain indifference ? |
| 3 | But very often I think tabloid journalism is interesting in terms of language because it 's very punchy it 's succinct because i i in some of our terms you might find people into a three minute reader and a thirty minute reader because in attention span and intellectual capacity are quite different but to actually condense something into meaningful short bursts , even if they are politically biased actually requires a certain amount of skill I would suspect the clarity index which I ca n't find is the process that I mentioned the other night where you take erm some people call it the fog index a correct me if I 'm wrong in my figures , but I think it 's a piece of something like two hundred or three hundred words you count the number of suc erm colons and full stops or is it only full stops ? |
| 4 | Nor is it necessarily good practice to see a client as often as possible or whenever the client wishes . |
| 5 | And is it quite regular hours or do you work all over the time ? |
| 6 | thirteen minutes and is it specifically other members |
| 7 | Erm , is there really a danger of this , I see that er , the A C C are supporting the proposal , but is it just another sort of Euro directive that is going to cause a lot of expense and distress to a lot of people who keep pigeons , which is on the whole not a , you know , I was going to say , not a very erm , expensive form of sport or entertainment whatever . |
| 8 | But is it not true Mr that your client rejects the alternative of expansion of existing settlements ? |