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

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No	Sentence
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 ?

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