Example sentences of "or [is] it [art] [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 | Is it an annual charge or is it a twelve month payment thing on it , or just an annual charge ? |
4 | 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 ’ . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | Or is it a viable substitute for the dive table ? |
7 | I mean is this real or is it a red herring , which ? |
8 | Or is it a Welsh leek in bloom ? |
9 | Is this because of the strange life your mother forced on you or is it a natural trait of character ? ’ |
10 | Is this really happening or is it a wonderful dream ? |
11 | Is it an ordinary digital computer of the sort that 's used in commerce and industry , or is it a special type of computer . |
12 | Or is it a universal meaning that is potentially available to all but in practice is available only to the structuralist ? |
13 | 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 ? |
14 | Is a function a psychological process or is it a neural process ? |
15 | Is that tear in your pyjamas due to the age of the garment , Martins , or is it a feeble attempt to be provocative ? ’ |
16 | Or is it a racing green ? |
17 | 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 ? |
18 | 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 ? |
19 | Is it the original owner or is it the innocent purchaser ? |
20 | Is the in the input embedded in would you or is it the first phoneme of judge ? |
21 | Nice names , shame about the faces — or is it the other way around ? ! ’ |
22 | 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 . ’ |
23 | 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 ? |
24 | 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 ? |
25 | 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 . |
26 | 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 ? |