Example sentences of "[is] this [adv] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Nor is this just a problem that is eating away the character of historic towns and conservation areas .
2 Is this just a way of expressing friendliness ?
3 Is this just a malign coincidence ?
4 Could I be bisexual or is this just a fantasy ?
5 Is this just a game for you ?
6 Is this just a case of too much sun ? ’
7 Or is this just an elaborate distraction created by her mind to avoid facing her infertility ?
8 Is this just an ordinary camera you 've used ?
9 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 .
10 Is this revenge or is this just the stopping other people from suffering really ?
11 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 ? ’
12 Is this not a form of stereotyping at least as damaging as racist and sexist attitudes ?
13 Is this not a strange time to close offices which provide assistance for so many unemployed people ?
14 Is this not a quick election fix rather than a programme of long-term investment to improve our competitiveness ?
15 Can we just get it clear , has Goodricke bop now changed to Monday , or is this not a permanent ?
16 is this not a recipe for disaster ?
17 Why is this not an explanation of the lunar crust being thicker on one side than on the other ?
18 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 .
19 Is this not the worst and most pernicious kind of sexism ?
20 At least , is this not the tendency in the beginning with most very young children and certainly with lively , healthy ones ?
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 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 ?
24 Is this where the National Dock Labour Board came into existence ?
25 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 .
26 Is this why the myth swims through our memory ?
27 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 ?
28 Nor is this necessarily a model of steady decline .
29 But neither is this necessarily the case .
30 Is this actually a book that er is going to be of any assistance to me ?
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