Example sentences of "[conj] be [pers pn] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it because I am a bad woman , a selfish woman , the kind who chooses to stay childless : or am I an unhappy woman , an unfortunate woman , and ca n't have them ? |
| 2 | Are examination syllabuses seen as an unwelcome intrusion into the normal pattern of teaching in those subjects , or are they a natural extension of what is already happening ? |
| 3 | Or are you a shrewd business man , a man quick to see the profits of this world ? |
| 4 | Or are you a bad girl ? |
| 5 | Is it a religious accusation or is it a political accusation . |
| 6 | Or is it a long-term thing , something which will lead to the things you just said you wanted : the wife , the kids , the home ? ’ |
| 7 | Is it an annual charge or is it a twelve month payment thing on it , or just an annual charge ? |
| 8 | Yes it is , er I mean , what we tried to do was to write er a comedy on a big scale that was n't a marshmallow , er in fact it er the , the comedy deepens and it gets pretty sour , and I think some of the criticism of the play has been that ‘ is it a comedy , or is it a serious play ’ . |
| 9 | The palazzo looks so much like a 1950s cinema ( or is it a small-town railway station ? ) , with its curves and ornate super-structure , that it comes as a surprise to learn that it is seventeenth-century . |
| 10 | Or is it a viable substitute for the dive table ? |
| 11 | I mean is this real or is it a red herring , which ? |
| 12 | Or is it a Welsh leek in bloom ? |
| 13 | Is this because of the strange life your mother forced on you or is it a natural trait of character ? ’ |
| 14 | Is this really happening or is it a wonderful dream ? |
| 15 | Is it an ordinary digital computer of the sort that 's used in commerce and industry , or is it a special type of computer . |
| 16 | Or is it a universal meaning that is potentially available to all but in practice is available only to the structuralist ? |
| 17 | Is it only the additional or marginal cost to the employer providing the service for the employee , or is it a proportionate part of the total costs incurred by the employer in providing the facility to be used both by the public and by the employee ? |
| 18 | Is a function a psychological process or is it a neural process ? |
| 19 | Is that tear in your pyjamas due to the age of the garment , Martins , or is it a feeble attempt to be provocative ? ’ |
| 20 | Or is it a racing green ? |
| 21 | Or is it a conscious decision on the part of managers to handle the processes differently because schools themselves differ in their habits of work ? |
| 22 | Or is you a lonely man ? ’ |
| 23 | If you 're a survivor of the Red Revolution — or was it a failed coup ? — one feature you 'll want to read is Brian Glover 's nostalgic glance back at those dreadful keg beers . |
| 24 | Was it worth watching the race , or was it a foregone conclusion ? |
| 25 | In Salamanca we often smiled at each other as we passed along a street called Street of the Two Poets — or was it a little plaza ? |
| 26 | Or was it a surgical implant that enabled him to endure more terror than ordinary men , a supplementary hypothalamus ? |
| 27 | Did it accord with legitimate expectations of fair and reasonable persons or was it a high-handed exercise of power of a kind more to be expected of an authoritarian government than one guided by and subscribing to principles of limited government ? |
| 28 | Had Neil Armstrong really walked on the moon or was it a magnificent hoax ? |
| 29 | Mr Kronweiser was unsure about that ‘ we ’ : was it a plural , or was it an ironic reference to Viola Machin ? |
| 30 | 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 ? |