Example sentences of "[conj] be this [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could I be bisexual or is this just a fantasy ? |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | Nor is this just a problem that is eating away the character of historic towns and conservation areas . |
| 5 | Nor is this only a question of a difference between writing and speech , as might at first appear . |
| 6 | Nor is this necessarily a model of steady decline . |
| 7 | But is this really the explanation , or could there be other factors at work ? |