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 ?
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