Example sentences of "[conj] [am/are] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or are their blunt heads dipping to the bottom and sucking food from the sand or gravel ? |
| 2 | Are atoms solid things , or are they all space or what ? |
| 3 | Are they faceless heartless bureaucrats , or are they overworked caring administrators ? |
| 4 | Or are they mere voices of the bureaucracy ( which , in this third debate , is the ‘ system ’ ) ? |
| 5 | So , basically , I want to know are they taken from erm a team which is already in the health service , or are they new posts funded , and funded by whom , bearing in mind the constant complaints we get from the health authority about lack of funds ? |
| 6 | Or are there certain slots , are there certain times , certain types of product . |
| 7 | Or are there other criteria that I have n't thought of ? |
| 8 | Do we want to live in a society in which making money is all that matters , or are there other objectives that we hold more dear . |
| 9 | Can this be removed simply , or are there other modifications to be made . |
| 10 | Is this asymmetric behaviour an intrinsic property of the stem cell , or are there environmental signals which control the different pathways of the daughter cells ? |
| 11 | Are you happy with the way it cleans , or are there some features you would like to see improved ? |
| 12 | Or are there special perils for reforming presidents in Latin America ? |
| 13 | Respondents to the Social Attitudes Survey in 1984 were asked : In general would you say that people should obey the law without exception , or are there exceptional occasions on which people should follow their consciences even if it means breaking the law ? |
| 14 | I 'm saying as a matter of fact they are outside the equation , and that 's what 's wrong , because they 're certainly not upper class , they 're not middle class , but nor are they working class , are they ? |
| 15 | Nor are they some kind of Dalek . |
| 16 | They do not represent a complete list of the ‘ traditions ’ in English curricula nor are they timeless entities ; they simply represent three clear constellations of curriculum styles which recur in the history of the school subjects under study . |
| 17 | There is no independently characterisable subclass of dogs for which being a pet is a necessary or canonical trait ( lap-dogs do not count , because they can not be distinguished without invoking the characteristic of pet-hood ) ; nor are there distinguishable sub-types of pet which are canonically or necessarily dogs ( except , of course , lap-dogs , which do not count here , either , and for parallel reasons ) . |
| 18 | Nor are there many documentary examples : the words do lego darique volo are found in an inscription from Spain which dates from the end of the second century . |
| 19 | Nor are there many rodassiers , ample benches or daybeds which many French people regard as the most typical item of Provençal furniture . |
| 20 | Nor are there many opportunities in Darlington for open-air dining or drinking . |
| 21 | On curriculum management , the inspectorate report stated : ’ There is no co-ordination of the various aspects and strands that support the curriculum , nor are there effective links with the social education programme or with careers education and guidance . ’ |
| 22 | Nor are there rigourous analyses of the impact upon urban land values of speculative land development by private agents , and the effects of contemporary public policies such as legalisation of individual plot titles ; the provision of urban services and utilities ; cadastral registration , and betterment taxation . |
| 23 | Nor are there reliable figures on the total work-force ( which is always a problem in a country with a large peasant population ) . |
| 24 | For Hobbes there is no immaterial God , nor are there immaterial souls or minds . |
| 25 | Such research of course suffers from the problem that there is no suitable control in terms of memory for more mundane events , nor are there adequate methods for actually determining the accuracy of the memories reported . |
| 26 | There are , in fact , no applications ; nor are there Welsh GPs queuing up to run their own budgets . |
| 27 | ‘ We are not for having any man turn sceptic , and disbelieve his senses ; on the contrary we give them all the stress and assurance imaginable ; nor are there any principles more opposite to scepticism , than those we have laid down . ’ |
| 28 | Nor are there any signs of a slowdown , with investment commitments in manufacturing in 1992 expected to exceed the 1991 record of S$2.9bn . |
| 29 | Nor are there any awards to industries seen as critical in environmental terms , such as bulk chemicals , oil and gas , paper and pulp , mining and quarrying , batteries and energy storage and packaging . |
| 30 | German companies have on occasion preferred to give business to the big universal banks that are their biggest shareholders than to more competitive foreign firms . |