Example sentences of "[be] this [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Were this not the case , the buy-in would be tax free to a corporate shareholder because , by virtue of s208 , the corporate shareholder would not be liable to corporation tax on the distribution , unless it is taken into account in the shareholder 's capital gains tax computation ( the latter not being precluded by s208 ) . |
| 2 | Nor is this just a problem that is eating away the character of historic towns and conservation areas . |
| 3 | Is this just a way of expressing friendliness ? |
| 4 | Is this just a malign coincidence ? |
| 5 | Could I be bisexual or is this just a fantasy ? |
| 6 | ‘ Is this just a game for you ? |
| 7 | Is this just a case of too much sun ? ’ |
| 8 | Or is this just an elaborate distraction created by her mind to avoid facing her infertility ? |
| 9 | Is this just an ordinary camera you 've used ? |
| 10 | Is this just an aberration , if you look at the road markings , you 'll see it seems to be official , cos the road is marked out for driving on the right , and the reason is that er , traffic law in this country says , that vehicles drive on the left , except in Savoy Street . |
| 11 | Is this revenge or is this just the stopping other people from suffering really ? |
| 12 | Bryan Gould , the Labour Trade and Industry spokesman , questioned : ‘ Is this not a further example of the sort of conglomerate merger that has served British industry so ill in the past ? ’ |
| 13 | Is this not a form of stereotyping at least as damaging as racist and sexist attitudes ? |
| 14 | Is this not a strange time to close offices which provide assistance for so many unemployed people ? |
| 15 | Is this not a quick election fix rather than a programme of long-term investment to improve our competitiveness ? |
| 16 | Can we just get it clear , has Goodricke bop now changed to Monday , or is this not a permanent ? |
| 17 | is this not a recipe for disaster ? |
| 18 | Why is this not an explanation of the lunar crust being thicker on one side than on the other ? |
| 19 | Is this not an intolerable interference with the freedom of action of any British Government , and is the Prime Minister aware that , in 12 of the past 18 years , successive Governments , Labour and Conservative , have spent more than 3 per cent . |
| 20 | Is this not the worst and most pernicious kind of sexism ? |
| 21 | At least , is this not the tendency in the beginning with most very young children and certainly with lively , healthy ones ? |
| 22 | The testimony of a witness in a case tried at Matara early in the nineteenth century illustrates the lack of plausibility of much court testimony : ‘ I saw the two prisoners drive a head of cattle — It was in the high road — It was about two hours before dark — We asked them where are you going with the animal — Is this not the animal of the schoolmaster . |
| 23 | But then again , maybe I 'm wrong , for is this not the same Labour Group which now proclaims to be our cultural guardians , who , my Lord Mayor , only last year , sought , in that most bohemian of ways , to dispose of all of civic treasures in one giant car boot sale . |
| 24 | Have the political and creative aspirations of the sector been abandoned in the climate of new realism ’ , or is this simply the beginning of a new phase ? |
| 25 | Is this where the National Dock Labour Board came into existence ? |
| 26 | Within a cell what happens is this right a cell , what happens is that erm D N A is copied on to something called erm R N A , which is a kind of template , messenger R N A , it 's a kind of copy and it 's a single strand , corresponding to one of the strands on the original D N A with the same base structure . |
| 27 | Is this why the myth swims through our memory ? |
| 28 | Is this why the Unit and all its works seem to have disappeared from the records — because it was unthinkable that such a document should officially exist ? |
| 29 | Nor is this necessarily a model of steady decline . |
| 30 | But neither is this necessarily the case . |