Example sentences of "[conj] [be] he [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Subject : Another where is he now question |
| 2 | Is he genuinely anxious to give the black majority full political rights , or is he simply interested in the survival of Afrikanerdom ? |
| 3 | Or is he secretly selling us to the South ? |
| 4 | Is the Captain still there , or is he somewhere else ? |
| 5 | Does he see you as a partner , or is he already the boss ? |
| 6 | Or is he just an urban myth ? |
| 7 | Is he brave , is he suicidal , or is he just plain stupid ? |
| 8 | Does the Secretary of State appreciate that that is economic lunacy of the highest order , or is he just plain thick ? |
| 9 | Can he explain that contradiction , or is he just a politician running scared of the electorate and trying to be all things to all people ? |
| 10 | Does he get drunk or is he just violent ? |
| 11 | Or is he really planning to speed up his reaction to Gorbachev and Eastern Europe ? |
| 12 | Or is he really somethin' closer ? ’ |
| 13 | Did he really exist or is he merely fictitious ? |
| 14 | The real question in each such case is ‘ Does the patient really mean what he says or is he merely saying it for a quiet life , to satisfy someone else or because the advice and persuasion to which he has been subjected is such that he can no longer think and decide for himself ? ’ |
| 15 | In this situation is Y a buyer and re-seller or is he merely X 's agent for selling the goods to Z ? |
| 16 | Or is he more likely to waive his right to succession in favour of Prince William ? |
| 17 | Will he be able to solve her problems or is he more than just an interested bystander ? |
| 18 | Is he on solids now or is he still |
| 19 | Is he out of of hospital or is he still in ? |
| 20 | Is he in his house yet or is he still in that |
| 21 | Or is he still tired ? |
| 22 | is frank in fact playing for the reserves or is he totally ‘ put in the freezer ’ ? |
| 23 | Are we to deduce from this that Vincent saw Theo as an artist-manqué , or was he simply trying , not too hard in this instance , to shift the guilt a child feels before a self-sacrificing parent ? |
| 24 | Was it , I wondered , his natural reaction to something extraordinary , and did he therefore use it on the stage , or was he simply acting and registering what he thought was the appropriate emotion under the circumstances ? |
| 25 | Or was he simply placing a cloak of scientific respectability over the peculiarly oppressive relationships of turn-of-the-century Vienna ? |
| 26 | But how did my father calculate the exact timing , or was he just lucky ? |
| 27 | Was he human , semi-human , immaculately conceived or was he just a human being who recognised that evil was becoming widespread in the world , and that mankind was in danger of becoming dominated by those who had much to lose if it were suppressed ? |
| 28 | Or was he genuinely that rich ? |
| 29 | Or was he so inept that Sir Ivor was nearly beaten unnecessarily ? |
| 30 | Or was he merely seeking to confuse people in the West who have been calling for military intervention ? |