Example sentences of "[conj] is it a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it a religious accusation or is it a political accusation . |
| 2 | 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 ? ’ |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Or is it a viable substitute for the dive table ? |
| 6 | I mean is this real or is it a red herring , which ? |
| 7 | Or is it a Welsh leek in bloom ? |
| 8 | Is this because of the strange life your mother forced on you or is it a natural trait of character ? ’ |
| 9 | Is this really happening or is it a wonderful dream ? |
| 10 | Is it an ordinary digital computer of the sort that 's used in commerce and industry , or is it a special type of computer . |
| 11 | Or is it a universal meaning that is potentially available to all but in practice is available only to the structuralist ? |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | Is a function a psychological process or is it a neural process ? |
| 14 | Is that tear in your pyjamas due to the age of the garment , Martins , or is it a feeble attempt to be provocative ? ’ |
| 15 | Or is it a racing green ? |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | Such a view is inadequate in that there has come into existence , in the twentieth century , a body of literature in social science which is not poetry , nor is it a traditional style of philosophy . |
| 18 | Nor is it a literal representation of the speaker 's thought . |
| 19 | Nor is it a weighted argument to suggest that when teachers find that their school may be blackballed in future schemes of co-operation with other local schools they might not notice if in fact they had felt little practical benefit from any co-operation in the past . |
| 20 | Nor is it a one-sided account of the injustices suffered by this people , or a defence of the energetic stranger . |
| 21 | In many cases , it does not fit into the administrative systems of the parties , nor is it a usual way of doing business . |
| 22 | Nor is it an effective method of notifying the members , creditors or the general public , few of whom read the Gazette . |
| 23 | Nor is it an easy pink to obtain : in order that pink light should frame the shape of the little opera house and its windows all glow pink , 2,000 light bulbs were removed and replaced with others which workaday electricians ' pink not being the thing at all — had all been painted in the requisite shade by hand . |
| 24 | What they have to say is not the result of a private negotiation between self and text , nor is it an unmediated response of gender identity to a representation of masculinity : it is mediated by the position they take up as readers . |
| 25 | In this sense science is not a sociological category ( i.e. one that can be used to describe specific social forms ) nor is it an epistemological category ( i.e. one that can be used to account for the form or validity of knowledge ) . |
| 26 | The source of these difficulties is not the campaign of opposition waged by the British Medical Association , nor is it an incipient revolt among backbench MPs . |
| 27 | We talked earlier about amateur British people and we talked about amateur British magistrates and I 'm a , an amateur British magistrate , but the question that I 'm going to put next was put by a colleague of mine , who has preferred to remain anonymous , and that is , it 's proposed to fine motorists on the spot for minor offencmes in this country in the near future , and the question is , ‘ Does this system apply in other European countries , and is it a good system ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ And is it a good job ? ’ |
| 29 | Is this engine available and is it a worthwhile conversion in terms of increased power and better fuel consumption ? |
| 30 | And is it a big section ? |