Example sentences of "[conj] is [pron] [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or is it all one word ? |
| 2 | Perhaps there are so many new routes being done West Cumbria that the writers can not keep up ; or is it that other areas are more important to the committee ? |
| 3 | ‘ Is this real ? ’ he asked himself , ‘ or is it some terrible joke ? ’ |
| 4 | Or is it some other name ? ’ |
| 5 | I mean do you sort of maximise the good of all , or do you use a criterion of everyone thinking that they themselves are happy , or is it some other means ? |
| 6 | I 've done it many times , and they 're wondering who they 're speaking to , is it the press , or is it some private number they 've got instead . |
| 7 | Is this approach justified on the available evidence , or is it another premature presupposition without a true basis ? |
| 8 | Or is there some other explanation ? |
| 9 | Or is there some Steffi-crazy fan out there inundating the Tennis World office with letters cunningly disguised in a variety of handwriting just to confuse us ? |
| 10 | Would the other , these other enquiries you made , would the major part of them be asking other police officers or is there any other way of getting information ? |
| 11 | Nor is it some fiscal dodge . |
| 12 | Nor is there much existing evidence , here or in other countries , on which to make a reasonable guess . |
| 13 | Nor is there any perceptible change when the decomposed ultimately crystallises at ca 450°C into a mixture of CuO and ZnO . |
| 14 | When calculated the same way there is no tendency for the mean risk rating for a junction to determine correlations with accident estimates , r(8)=-0.047 , nor is there any similar relationship between risk and the response bias measure B , r(8)=-0.21 . |
| 15 | Nor is there any other documentary evidence to support the contention , reinforced by the fact of his so-called maker 's marks entered at the London Assay Office between 1792 and 1834 , that he was an actual worker in the precious metals . |
| 16 | ‘ We have no intention of taking a stake in another company , nor is there any other company that wants to take a stake in Siemens Nixdorf and become a dominant partner , ’ he said . |
| 17 | Nor is there any real evolution , only the inevitable modifications of time , in his personal feelings , the loyal determined affection for his drab wife Mana , his jealous longing for Lady Barbara Wellesley and his brief encounter with Mane de Graçay during his escape from France . |
| 18 | Nor is there any serious doubt that the law on trade union elections needs to be strengthened , in the light of the ballot rigging in the 1990 elections for the national executive of the Transport and General Workers Union . |
| 19 | Nor is there any serious basis on which it can be argued that there is a party political divide over the particular of reducing tobacco consumption among children . |
| 20 | The betting odds here are extraordinarily long ; theory suggests that it is not possible to liberate useful energy this way nor is there any natural phenomenon that gives us confidence that this can occur . |
| 21 | Nor is there any implied claim that all individual speakers have the same rules or rule-order — far from it . |
| 22 | Nor is there any single person whom he 's been visiting regularly . ’ |
| 23 | Though there is no legislation governing the fitment of airbags to European cars nor is there any independent evidence available on how many fatalities or injuries are prevented by the use of an airbag in conjunction with seatbelts . |
| 24 | There is no reason why a child has to know that some life forms became extinct in order to be able to measure variations between living organisms , nor is there any clear difference in difficulty between these two statements . |
| 25 | There is no notable deceleration , but I do n't know that my mind was recording anything but fear , nor is there any particular screech or roll , but suddenly we 're around the corner and accelerating down towards the tunnel and Jackie 's saying , ‘ You can relax now , Keith . ’ |
| 26 | Nor is there any manifest waste . |
| 27 | To it , God can only utter the dreadful ‘ No ’ which abandons sin to the nothingness that is its own real nature . |
| 28 | ‘ And is it that sublime confidence in yourself that prevents you from marrying her ? |
| 29 | And is it some cosmic joke that the texture of grey hair so completely different from the texture of the rest , so that each one stands out from your head like a bolt of lighting ? |
| 30 | erm and I think maybe that you , you jumped in should n't have done that er because obviously M Martin got quite defensive at that point you know because you were only going there to do this financial planning service and er selling them anything , you were just offering this financial planning service and then you jumped in with these , when I come back with my recommendations erm tt I also thought that erm you know it was a little bit dodgy actually to say you , well you know erm tt we have found that our records are incorrect and I thought well then that maybe and erm you went ve you went very o when you were talking about the dependants erm you , you you did n't seem to get into er erm how many children have you got and is there any other dependants , it , you , it seemed to take you a long time to actually get there . |