Example sentences of "[conj] [is] it the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or is it the merest coincidence that Kyle is sitting back in his chair , with the receiver to his ear , stroking the bald patch on the back of his head as I explain my business ? |
| 2 | Is it the original owner or is it the innocent purchaser ? |
| 3 | Is the in the input embedded in would you or is it the first phoneme of judge ? |
| 4 | Nice names , shame about the faces — or is it the other way around ? ! ’ |
| 5 | That increases the surface tension on the top of the coffee — or is it the specific gravity ? — so that when you dribble the cream slowly down over the back of the spoon it stays on the top . ’ |
| 6 | The spiritual ( or is it the psychic ? ) intensity of their presence goes together with a marvellous air of freedom and delicacy . |
| 7 | Is it the fact that the mother is blundering towards the unknown , with her children that causes unease , or is it the de-feminised figure of the woman herself ? |
| 8 | Is this the new library now , or is it the new extended ? |
| 9 | Or is it the coordinated interaction of several matrix components ( EHS contains laminin , type IV collagen , heparan-sulphate-proteoglycan , entactin , and other proteins ) with the cell that effects the maintenance of a normal phenotype ? |
| 10 | Is it the twenty one or is it the sixty or forty eight |
| 11 | The late appearance of Lonrho 's Tony Rowland in the guide of Fairy Godmother — or is it the Wicked Witch ? — offering to wave the magic wand and change the bulk of the debt into convertible preference shares could have offered a reprieve . |
| 12 | Is it the criminal who tortures the cop , who 's looking out for his own , or is it the undercover copy , who 's selling them all out ? |
| 13 | Nor is it the first time that Rupert 's good name has been besmirched . |
| 14 | Clozapine is not the first treatment for schizophrenia to be hailed as a significant advance , nor is it the first to raise ethical dilemmas . |
| 15 | Nor is it the Forbidden City or the Kremlin . |
| 16 | Kalkadoon is not the work of an individual nor is it the conscious product of any group . |
| 17 | This is not the first time , nor is it the last that a player will end up in court following a rough exchange with an opponent . |
| 18 | What follows from this is decisive for our whole discussion : doubt is not the opposite of faith , nor is it the same as unbelief . |
| 19 | Secondly , we should note that the adding of information is not the same here as expanding units omitted through ellipsis ( see 2.7 ) ; nor is it the same as tautologically duplicating elements included in the meaning of words and saying , for example : |
| 20 | However , it should be noted that the relationship between time value and the term to maturity is neither linear nor is it the same for both types of contracts . |
| 21 | Is the message coming over and is it the right message ? |
| 22 | And is it the same forty who said fathers are n't necessary , out of interest ? |
| 23 | And is it the same size ground as the match when there was twenty five thousand in you say you were a bit bothered about it in fact ? |
| 24 | But is it the round window , the square window , or the arched window ? |
| 25 | Few biologists doubt that this is part of the truth , but is it the whole truth ? |
| 26 | No , no , but is it the proper nickname on the |
| 27 | But is it the same as the hypothetical hypothalamic growth hormone releasing factor ? |