Example sentences of "[conj] be [pron] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So they 're the only ones you want to get rid of or are they the only ones you 've got ? |
| 2 | Is Christianity true in any case , or is what the early church believed about Jesus simply not possible ? |
| 3 | Or is it the merest coincidence that Kyle is sitting back in his chair , with the receiver to his ear , stroking the bald patch on the back of his head as I explain my business ? |
| 4 | Is it the original owner or is it the innocent purchaser ? |
| 5 | Is the in the input embedded in would you or is it the first phoneme of judge ? |
| 6 | Nice names , shame about the faces — or is it the other way around ? ! ’ |
| 7 | That increases the surface tension on the top of the coffee — or is it the specific gravity ? — so that when you dribble the cream slowly down over the back of the spoon it stays on the top . ’ |
| 8 | Is it the fact that the mother is blundering towards the unknown , with her children that causes unease , or is it the de-feminised figure of the woman herself ? |
| 9 | Or is it the coordinated interaction of several matrix components ( EHS contains laminin , type IV collagen , heparan-sulphate-proteoglycan , entactin , and other proteins ) with the cell that effects the maintenance of a normal phenotype ? |
| 10 | The late appearance of Lonrho 's Tony Rowland in the guide of Fairy Godmother — or is it the Wicked Witch ? — offering to wave the magic wand and change the bulk of the debt into convertible preference shares could have offered a reprieve . |
| 11 | Is it the criminal who tortures the cop , who 's looking out for his own , or is it the undercover copy , who 's selling them all out ? |
| 12 | Or is he the best dress man too ? |
| 13 | The Duke of Norfolk , and other grandees of the English Roman Catholic Church , or was it the Irish-origin tendency ? |
| 14 | Was it the joint M.C.R./S.C.R. table at lunch on Thursday or was it the joint Symposium held each term . |
| 15 | You were seen down there , Major , has the cat got your tongue ? — or was it the Private Office ? ’ |
| 16 | Or was it the other way round ? |
| 17 | Whatever mysterious spirit had unlocked the verse , it had freed him for other human satisfactions , for love ; or was it the other way around ? |
| 18 | Or was it the other way round ? |
| 19 | well was it the diameter divided by the circumference or was it the other way round , and you right them on paper and C over D , D over C , does n't look any different , and you get locked into the problem and you just back off a bit and think of something real , like when you measured it |
| 20 | For the first time — or was it the first time ? — she noted that he exuded a certain physical magnetism . |
| 21 | Or was it the unvarnished cruelty of an eleven-year-old ? |
| 22 | Or was it the same amount of land ? |
| 23 | new or was it the last year ? |
| 24 | Or was it the heavy rain slapping against the windows , the wind 's eerie message as it whistled down the chimney and flickered at the flames that had begun to lick about the new-laid logs ? |
| 25 | Little wonder Suzie had fallen in love with this modern city which proudly displayed so much of its past — or was it the shadowy Svend who had really captured her sister 's heart ? |
| 26 | Or was it the marsh-grass hissing , acre upon salt-caked acre ? |
| 27 | As to the type of employment the interesting feature that I experienced over the last two to three years as shown is that the inquiry level the type of inquiries has tended to focus on manufacturing and the attraction has been the quality of the work force , that is both in skill and its healthiness you know the liability and there are other issues in there too about where Britain is at these days in terms of immunisation wage levels , but it is the people that are themselves the major attractors so the potential work force in the locality that is the major attractor . |
| 28 | Elections were not the only occasions when those below the level of the elite could give voice to their political inclinations , nor were they the only points of contact between the world " out-of-doors " and that of Westminster . |
| 29 | The moral discourses of purity feminism were neither a reactionary barrier to feminist progress nor were they the simple expression of militant feminist consciousness . |
| 30 | Nor is it the first time that Rupert 's good name has been besmirched . |