Example sentences of "[conj] [be] it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I said I 'm , I 'm , I got them out at I think it were twenty one ninety nine or were it twenty five ninety nine ? they were twenty one ninety nine or twenty five ninety now , I ca n't remember off the cuff . |
| 2 | Or is it Jack-easy ? ’ |
| 3 | Forty-five thousand ( or is it fifty-five thousand — it 's difficult keeping a body-count ) ordinary citizens have been killed . |
| 4 | It looks like our ‘ friends ’ at the end of the East Lancs could be awaiting another 25 , or is it 26 years now ! |
| 5 | And he tells you when he wants to go , or is it regular times of the day ? . |
| 6 | Or is it such a mess ? |
| 7 | Is the concept of sensation involved in these sentences such that it makes sense to say that the same sensation is excited by the presence to our organs of numerous objects , or is it such that numerous objects ( and , indeed , the same object at different times ) can not but excite different , though possibly exactly similar sensations ? |
| 8 | Or is it sore down the sides ? |
| 9 | Or is it good afternoon now , is n't it ? |
| 10 | Or is it thicker ? |
| 11 | Or is it straight-forward cheating because that is the only way they know to play the game ? ’ |
| 12 | or is it all rust , ruin , death duties and mortgages |
| 13 | Or is it all an illusion , a phantasm derived from mere figures , a figment of journalistic imagination , an evanescent creature of dream and the wishful thinking of those for whom history is proceeding too slowly , and who would prefer to see an era change during their lifetimes rather than to live within the dulling envelope of merely one ? |
| 14 | Or is it all one word ? |
| 15 | Or is it all in that cotton-wool mind ? |
| 16 | No , but are you still interested in this Connon business or is it all neatly tied up ? ’ |
| 17 | I 'll also be talking to John MacGregor , about the privatization of British Rail , has he really given in to his rebels who want B R to be able to bid for the franchises , or is it all a clever conjuring trick ? |
| 18 | ‘ Or is it all talk ? |
| 19 | Is it thirty three percent thirty three percent thirty three percent or is it all weighted one way or the other ? |
| 20 | Or is it all broken up ? |
| 21 | ‘ Or is it one of your imitations ? |
| 22 | Or is it one of those presents which |
| 23 | Does anyone know if you can order more than one ticket with the new membership cards , or is it one ticket per member ? |
| 24 | Or is it one eight six on there ? |
| 25 | There 's lots of myths about Rachmanite landlords — is that really the case or is it one huge myth ? |
| 26 | or is it two hours in the morning ? |
| 27 | Or is it new ? ’ |
| 28 | It 's a question of authenticity — is this theme deeply-held , is it central to an understanding of the author 's character , or is it superficial gloss ; perhaps even so slightly phoney ? |
| 29 | Erm , just picking little bits , I mean er , we when we say actually what it is erm , annual report do we say the annual report to parents , or is it annual report just I know that that 's minor but at the actual top what do we actually call the thing that we 're presenting ? |
| 30 | • Is the fryer available in free-standing form or is it available as a modular unit to build into a suite ? |