Example sentences of "[conj] be [pers pn] 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 it the original owner or is it the innocent purchaser ? |
| 3 | Nice names , shame about the faces — or is it the other way around ? ! ’ |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | The Duke of Norfolk , and other grandees of the English Roman Catholic Church , or was it the Irish-origin tendency ? |
| 10 | Was it the joint M.C.R./S.C.R. table at lunch on Thursday or was it the joint Symposium held each term . |
| 11 | You were seen down there , Major , has the cat got your tongue ? — or was it the Private Office ? ’ |
| 12 | Or was it the other way round ? |
| 13 | Whatever mysterious spirit had unlocked the verse , it had freed him for other human satisfactions , for love ; or was it the other way around ? |
| 14 | Or was it the other way round ? |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | Or was it the unvarnished cruelty of an eleven-year-old ? |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | 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 ? |
| 19 | Or was it the marsh-grass hissing , acre upon salt-caked acre ? |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The moral discourses of purity feminism were neither a reactionary barrier to feminist progress nor were they the simple expression of militant feminist consciousness . |
| 22 | Nor is it the Forbidden City or the Kremlin . |
| 23 | Kalkadoon is not the work of an individual nor is it the conscious product of any group . |
| 24 | To reiterate , the purity movement was neither a conservative barrier to women 's sexual freedom , nor was it the passive vehicle for an emergent feminist consciousness . |
| 25 | Nor was it the only way in which he was inadequate as a Christian ruler . |
| 26 | Nor was it the only deduction : there were charges for seaming the stockings , for use of a corner of the master knitter 's workshop , for needles , candles , oil , coals and for the expenses involved in collecting in work . |
| 27 | Nor was it the disturbing rumours that by December 26 the country could be in the grip of a new and particularly alien ‘ Made in Taiwan ’ midwinter flu . |
| 28 | ‘ It was n't technology that doomed nuclear power in the US , nor was it the dedicated obstructionist tactics of the anti-nuclear forces , effective though they were . |
| 29 | Nor was I the innocent bystander taking his lunchtime beer in his local , to whom Shmekov slipped the information , two hours before the police grabbed him , that altered the Alliance 's whole strategy towards the opposing ’ powers in the Southern Apex . |
| 30 | Nor was he the only imperialist of his day of whom it might have been said , as one of his biographers said of him , that he had ‘ a genius for backing into the limelight ’ . |