Example sentences of "[coord] be [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | So they 're the only ones you want to get rid of or are they the only ones you 've got ? |
2 | ‘ Are the Camerons well known for being plain-spoken , señorita , or are you the only one ? ’ |
3 | At Rhos-y-Bol or were you the first there ? |
4 | Is Christianity true in any case , or is what the early church believed about Jesus simply not possible ? |
5 | 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 ? |
6 | Is it the original owner or is it the innocent purchaser ? |
7 | Is the in the input embedded in would you or is it the first phoneme of judge ? |
8 | Nice names , shame about the faces — or is it the other way around ? ! ’ |
9 | 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 . ’ |
10 | The spiritual ( or is it the psychic ? ) intensity of their presence goes together with a marvellous air of freedom and delicacy . |
11 | 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 ? |
12 | Is this the new library now , or is it the new extended ? |
13 | 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 ? |
14 | Is it the twenty one or is it the sixty or forty eight |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 ? |
17 | Or is he the best dress man too ? |
18 | The Duke of Norfolk , and other grandees of the English Roman Catholic Church , or was it the Irish-origin tendency ? |
19 | Was it the joint M.C.R./S.C.R. table at lunch on Thursday or was it the joint Symposium held each term . |
20 | You were seen down there , Major , has the cat got your tongue ? — or was it the Private Office ? ’ |
21 | That they were putting on or was it the actual make up or ? |
22 | Or was it the other way round ? |
23 | Whatever mysterious spirit had unlocked the verse , it had freed him for other human satisfactions , for love ; or was it the other way around ? |
24 | Or was it the other way round ? |
25 | well was it the diameter divided by the circumference or was it the other way round , and you right them on paper and C over D , D over C , does n't look any different , and you get locked into the problem and you just back off a bit and think of something real , like when you measured it |
26 | For the first time — or was it the first time ? — she noted that he exuded a certain physical magnetism . |
27 | They were high on the second icefield ; or was it the third ? |
28 | Now we 've got another opportunity system , erm but it 's too early they think that the the water is coming up in I think February is n't it another or was it the coastal but it 's with |
29 | Or was it the unvarnished cruelty of an eleven-year-old ? |
30 | Or was it the same amount of land ? |