Example sentences of "[conj] be [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or are you on the streets ? ’ |
| 2 | Moderator I tell you what the convenor would say six four O is it for the panel to bring forward a rite or is it for the er committee on worship to bring forward rites ? |
| 3 | Is it to go to all the members of your organisation , is it to be read by the Board of Directors only , is it to be studied by the upper echelon of the scientific staff , or is it for the eyes of your boss only ? |
| 4 | I would like to ask , why , when there co-operation at the , the Strathclyde bus company they have buses that are running choc-a-block constantly full , but then again suddenly a bus that does n't pay its full way is taken off and people that are dependant on that bus are left without any transport , why ca n't the busy bus subsidise the bus that is n't ? , because after it its public transport , so is it a complete and utter profit that the buses are running for or is it for the convenience of the public ? because it is |
| 5 | You think Is it is the red on the right or is it on the left ? |
| 6 | Or is it on the hearth ? |
| 7 | Or is it like the first ? ’ |
| 8 | Do you find it 's just at night or is it in the day too ? |
| 9 | Is it in the pit , or is it in the the theatre ? |
| 10 | Is it in that child 's interest for it to go home or is it in the child 's interest er for the responsibility to lie with the local authority or the High Court ? |
| 11 | Down river , or was it up the river ? |
| 12 | As Layton asked in his poem ‘ To The Roaring Wind ’ ( or was it to the Spirit-behind-the wind ? ) : |
| 13 | Was it just free standing in the middle of the room or was it against the wall ? |
| 14 | Or was it after the diarrhoea but before the two lovely colds ? |
| 15 | Or was it from the father , do you think ? |
| 16 | Was on the heights or was it in the hollows ? |
| 17 | Or was it in the Golden Cock ? |
| 18 | Unlike Mediterranean countries , we do not have hours off for lunch , nor are we in the habit of large family lunchtime gatherings in the middle of the week . |
| 19 | The issues are not about inappropriate use of authority nor are they about the display of heroics . |
| 20 | Nor am I under the illusion that I alone am free of illusion . |
| 21 | Nor is it for the sensitive . |
| 22 | I 'd like to remind him that 's nothing to the idiot he made of himself on All Fools Day last when he found the dead stoat I 'd placed in the pulpit . |
| 23 | ‘ Over yon moor is a farm that 's mine for the taking . |
| 24 | There was nothing equivocal about that ; nor was there about the oath of allegiance the emirs were required to take , which recognized the undisputed sovereignty in all matters , saving that of religion , of the British government . |
| 25 | According to Plutarch , writing in highly refined Greek circles in the early second century AD : ‘ Before this , Rome neither had nor even knew of these exqusite and refined things , nor was there in the city any love of what was charming and elegant ; rather , it was full of barbaric weapons and bloody spoils . ’ |
| 26 | Leading by example is not enough — nor was it at the time of Risinghill . |
| 27 | Nor was it in the romantic tradition that the cultivation of your own emotional development , the habits of seasoned and trade introspection , are really what the poet needs . |
| 28 | Nor was he in the least tired until well after midnight . |
| 29 | Nor was she in the gaming room with its low lights on green baize tables , circles of hands restless with chips , cards , cigarettes , while the tension adjusted itself with each soft call of the croupiers . |
| 30 | Cara had seen neither member of Frizingley 's force herself ; nor was she in the least surprised that two men armed only with truncheons should shirk from attempting to enforce their will upon St Jude 's . |