Example sentences of "or is it the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Or is it the merest coincidence that Kyle is sitting back in his chair , with the receiver to his ear , stroking the bald patch on the back of his head as I explain my business ?
2 Is it the original owner or is it the innocent purchaser ?
3 Is the in the input embedded in would you or is it the first phoneme of judge ?
4 Nice names , shame about the faces — or is it the other way around ? ! ’
5 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 . ’
6 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 ?
7 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 ?
8 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 .
9 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 ?
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