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 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 ?
12 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 .
13 Nor is this necessarily a model of steady decline .
14 But neither is this necessarily the case .
15 Is this actually a book that er is going to be of any assistance to me ?
16 Is this now the age of ‘ lies , damn lies and journalism ’ ?
17 Nor is this only a question of a difference between writing and speech , as might at first appear .
18 Is this merely a definition of the limits of a gratuitous promise ( as in Thomas v Thomas , infra ) or is it an offer to contract , the consideration being P's forbearance from marriage ?
19 Or is this merely an unexpectedly concentrated pay-off for Christie 's long-standing ( since 1766 ) rapport with the oldest and grandest British families ?
20 Is this still a is
21 ‘ So , Firmin , is this still a joke ? ’
22 But is this really a fair comparison ?
23 The clarifying question is : " Is this really a problem or am I just choosing to look at it as a problem ? "
24 So is this really a new panacea or a just a passing craze for crazies .
25 Now of course it may be that the child has caught a worry about schooling from the parent , but I think that 's the first thing to sort out — is this really a problem in the child , or is it a problem in the parent 's mind ?
26 Now of course it may be that the child has caught a worry about schooling from the parent , but I think that 's the first thing to sort out — is this really a problem in the child , or is it a problem in the parent 's mind ?
27 But is this really an unlikely choice ?
28 Yet the question has to be asked : how much is this really an artificial crisis which will subside as quickly as it has arisen ?
29 Is this really the best Britain has to offer ?
30 Is this really the case ?
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