Example sentences of "[conj] [be] [pers pn] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or am I just plain incompetent — a liability to anyone reckless enough to venture onto rock with me ? |
| 2 | " Your fever deaths too are high again — or are they mostly concealed suicides ? " |
| 3 | Or are they no more than generalized exhortations , the playthings of ethicists , who love to pontificate , because that is all they are good for ? |
| 4 | Are our ethical values ( the Principles of Honesty and Natural Knowledge ) connate , that is " known to us instinctively by virtue of our divine origins " , or are they no more than " long inculcate precepts " which depend simply on " what has hapned to be taken up by overruling Custome " ? |
| 5 | Or are they just greedy and saying well we 're doing quite well out of rent reduction , but if we , you know if we the landlords , we 're gon na get some more ? |
| 6 | Mm , and what are they , are they , are , are they actually supposed to make money off it or is it just supposed to be a break even thing or are they quite happy |
| 7 | Or are they as incompetent as that across the whole waterfront ? |
| 8 | are the characters crisp and easy to read , or are they too small , or blurred ? |
| 9 | Or are they too girlish ? |
| 10 | Are they , are they part of the University , or are they entirely separate from the University ? |
| 11 | Or are we perhaps just a little surprised that it should take so little to set nation against nation . |
| 12 | Or are we perhaps just chasing a mirage ? |
| 13 | ‘ Is that a mobile phone or are you just pleased to see me ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Do n't you understand English or are you just stupid ’ |
| 15 | When a child gets out of line in assembly and the teacher shouts ‘ Do n't you understand English or are you just stupid ’ , or when Indian parents who do come to speak to teachers are laughed at or rebuffed , children both black and white learn just how Indians are thought of by people who matter . |
| 16 | Or are you just tired ? |
| 17 | ‘ Is this really to do with your partnership , ’ he grated , ‘ or are you just afraid of failure once again ? ’ |
| 18 | Or are you rather more than just het-up ? ’ |
| 19 | Or are you simply afraid to show openly what you can do where he 's been before you ? ’ |
| 20 | Or are you too busy taking care of Maggie ? ’ |
| 21 | Or are you too afraid to actually admit that the great Luke Calder could ever stoop to underhand dealing to get what he wants ? ’ |
| 22 | Are you an extrovert person outgoing , willing to take a chance , willing to take a risk or are you more introverted perhaps ? |
| 23 | Geoff Geoffrey Hoskins is it a good thing that we no longer we have too super pow powers viewing for authority and all the rest of it or are you as worried as ? |
| 24 | Was he really ‘ guided ’ in his wanderings or were they no more than the meanderings of an old man ? |
| 25 | An ominous sign … or were they just afraid to admit supporting a rebel ? |
| 26 | Or were they simply concerned at the number of rules that were being broken by the programme 's makers ? |
| 27 | Or were they rather lighter , almost |
| 28 | Or were they really older and wiser ? |
| 29 | Or were they more intent on capture and rapid interrogation ? |
| 30 | The fat men : were they less fat because they were smaller , and so you needed less stomach to appear fat ; or were they more fat , because they developed the same stomachs , but had even less frame to support them ? |