Example sentences of "[conj] is [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I did n't know you could get stuff recorded like that , is it like specially adaptable , or is that normal walkman ?
2 It 's Tuesday , I thought Tuesday was golf , or is that just Monday , Wednesday , Thursday and Friday .
3 so we , are we enhancing a pure biological function or is all this talk of love and
4 But the question I was asked was — is it possible to just varnish — or is any special treatment necessary after stripping ?
5 It is of no concern to a member who does sell ( at least from a financial point of view ) that the bidder , having gained control , may go on to operate the company less efficiently than the previous management or is some other way that is damaging to its business .
6 Or is this another example of what is appropriate to circumstances ?
7 Or is this some sort of a stupid joke ? ’
8 OR IS THIS JUST PRESS SPECULATION ? ? ? ?
9 Nor is this particular variation , the story in which the interest lies in how a baffling murder of some sort can have been committed .
10 Little or no lather is obtained , nor is any effective work done by the soap or detergent until all the hardness has turned to insoluble scum .
11 Mustakimzade alone of the biographers tries to identify the medreses at which Fahreddin Acemi taught , naming two : the Darulhadis of Mehmed Sah Fenari , presumably a ( though none of the standard biographical sources mentions that he made such a benefaction nor is any such medrese or darulhadis mentioned in Baltaci 's and the Darulhadis of Murad II in Edirne .
12 Nor is any holy person God , whether it be Moses or Jesus or Mohammed .
13 As a home that is much more diy than designer , it is an inspiration for anyone wanting to create all their own decorative effects .
14 But the set of atoms that is any one copy of a gene is not of permanent interest .
15 It is , however , equally good in scale passages , legato , and staccato , in wide leaps , in rapid changes from p to f and it is capable of more varied and more subtle tonal nuance than is any other wind instrument .
16 This represents the packing density of the file , and is much more general than n or N used independently , as all files with the same packing density give the same results irrespective of the value of N and n .
17 Yes , with all his gold and rings and is that real gold , he went berserk
18 And is that fox-headed fellow one of yours ?
19 She quavers along with the congregation and is all rapt attention when the vicar does his bit .
20 Plastic debris is filling up our oceans and is another modern peril that is taking its toll on dolphins and other marine mammals .
21 It commemorates a visit to Oxford by Queen Elizabeth the first and is another focal point in the garden .
22 This is a subject which affects many people in this city and is another characteristic act by a Tory Government that acts in a callous way .
23 And is these hot dogs .
24 It lies on the eastern edge of the Ruhr coalfield and is some fifteen miles from the Möhne Dam , one of the targets of the famous ‘ Dambusters ’ raid .
25 It was discovered as long ago as 1746 , and is some 50000 light-years away , with a real diameter of about 150 light-years .
26 But is that any reason for tetchiness ?
27 But is that enough reason to do a magazine about them ?
28 At this level of causation the outcome with a different personality at No. 10 would have been different ; but is that historical reality ?
29 What is called ‘ any benefit , or even any legal possibility of benefit , ’ in Mr. Smith 's notes to Cumber v. Wane , is not ( as I conceive ) that sort of benefit which a creditor may derive from getting payment of part of the money due to him from a debtor who might otherwise keep him at arm 's length , or possibly become insolvent , but is some independent benefit , actual or contingent , of a kind which might in law be a good and valuable consideration for any other sort of agreement not under seal .
30 But is this triple message , taken home by the Paraclete in the apostolic mission , not precisely what the Johannine Christ proclaims throughout the Gospel , and particularly in a passage like 9:35- 41 ?
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