Example sentences of "[is] [pers pn] [art] case " in BNC.

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1 To put it another way , is it a case of high pitch giving rise to sexist prejudice , or does the prejudice cause the reaction to the pitch ?
2 Is it a case of ‘ publish and be damned ’ or do certain ethical codes take precedence ?
3 Is it a case for Inspector Morse ?
4 Is it a case of wanting what you think you ca n't have ? ’
5 Is it a case
6 And and is it is it a case of misogyny basically rife within the Labour Party ?
7 Is it a case of claiming it , immediately er , you become sick , rather than saying
8 Nor is it the case that the Federal Republic is using the issue of democratic accountability to drag its feet on EMU .
9 ‘ Or is it the case , as millions now believe , that she does not want a resolution to this dispute ? ’
10 But let us ask again : Is it the case that moral qualities can not be transferred ?
11 Is it the case that the rural sector is undergoing a process of proletarianisation or peasantisation ?
12 Neither is it the case that this is a facet of capitalistic conspiratorial machinations , a spatial rubric of the principles of divide and rule .
13 Nor is it the case that in saying ‘ I promise to meet you ’ I am merely giving expression to — or reporting or describing — an inward , mental act .
14 If the latter , is it the case that we are acquainted with the concepts of trumping and revoking through attending to these feelings , and have somehow managed to devise a game with activities which are as perfect an expression of them as , say , Pablo Picasso 's 1937 painting of a Weeping Woman is an expression of grief ?
15 But is it the case that western women , living today in the United States , let alone in secular modern Europe , live in societies so dominated by the Christian myth , so ready to point to the place of women within the biblical tradition , that the best that women can do is to try to give a better reading of that past ?
16 Nor is it the case that we in fact need a vehicle , a mythological story to carry our awareness of God , of the kind which has been fabricated in the west .
17 It perhaps ought to be pointed out here that an odd sentence is not necessarily meaningless , or incapable of conveying a message ; nor is it the case that such sentences never occur naturally .
18 Is it the case that all communication within a species should be treated as though it were part of selfish manipulation ?
19 Is collusion indeed ever really ‘ tacit ’ , or is it the case that what may appear to be tacit collusion is actually explicit collusion in which the process of agreement is simply concealed ?
20 Is it the case , as Sartre maintains , that communism and the novel are incompatible ?
21 Or , on the contrary , is it the case , as Nizan maintains , that communism and the novel are ultimately reconcilable ?
22 Third , do parties put forward programmes of policies that are " different " and offer a real choice , and is it the case that the winning party carries out its programme if elected to office ?
23 Is it the case that he merely dismisses those submissions with which he does not agree and proceeds in an autocratic fashion ?
24 Is it the case , for example , that when employees buy shares , they come to identify more strongly with their company ?
25 Nor is it the case that large scale development will inevitably follow erm construction of those roads .
26 well is it the case or I mean , or , or , obviously I stayed it , erm
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