Example sentences of "[be] this [adv] [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.

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1 Is this just a way of expressing friendliness ?
2 Is this just a case of too much sun ? ’
3 Is this not a form of stereotyping at least as damaging as racist and sexist attitudes ?
4 Why is this not an explanation of the lunar crust being thicker on one side than on the other ?
5 The testimony of a witness in a case tried at Matara early in the nineteenth century illustrates the lack of plausibility of much court testimony : ‘ I saw the two prisoners drive a head of cattle — It was in the high road — It was about two hours before dark — We asked them where are you going with the animal — Is this not the animal of the schoolmaster .
6 Have the political and creative aspirations of the sector been abandoned in the climate of new realism ’ , or is this simply the beginning of a new phase ?
7 Nor is this necessarily a model of steady decline .
8 Is this now the age of ‘ lies , damn lies and journalism ’ ?
9 Is this how the head of the security police was passing his time ?
10 Nor is this only a question of a difference between writing and speech , as might at first appear .
11 Is this merely a definition of the limits of a gratuitous promise ( as in Thomas v Thomas , infra ) or is it an offer to contract , the consideration being P's forbearance from marriage ?
12 Is this really the intention of the UN sanctions and , if so , what is the reasoning of it ?
13 Or is this perhaps a product of the over-excited brain of a middle-aged and somewhat disparaged poet , when he finds that his ignored , his arcane , his deviously perspicuous meanings , which he thought not meanings , since no one appeared able to understand them , had after all one clear-eyed and amused reader and judge ?
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