Example sentences of "[is] [art] [adj] or [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is an important point to note if the impression is to be avoided ( given the brief of this study ) that the particular division of gender is the only or the most important one : |
| 2 | Erm it 'll be it 'll be erm twelfth , thirteenth it 'll be the Tuesday , no I think it 's the fourteenth or the fifteenth . |
| 3 | You draw a line and you know at once whether it 's a good or a bad line . |
| 4 | Do you have any thoughts as to whether it 's a good or a bad thing that food is produced artificially , as it were ? |
| 5 | I do n't know if it 's a sweet or a Dan say Arthur . |
| 6 | ‘ We own about 60 or 70 of 200 houses in the Rivers area , and Trent Street is no worse or no better than anywhere else . ’ |
| 7 | A demand by such an authority under an ultra vires regulation is no more or no less unlawful than a demand under a valid regulation which does not apply to the situation in which the demand is made . |
| 8 | We need to know whether it is a 10-strong or a seven-strong management committee , with a majority of management representatives . |
| 9 | Errors made in the learning of a language , whether it is a first or a second one , are often indicative of the range and type of strategies used . |
| 10 | For the first dimension , five used were : whether executive power is concentrated ( as in the British Cabinet ) or shared ( as in the Swiss Federal Council , in which all parties are represented ) ; whether the executive dominates ( as in the UK ) , or shares power with the legislature ( as in the United States ) ; whether there is a two or a multi-party system ; whether parties are divided on one political dimension ( e.g. the typical left-right division in Great Britain ) or several ( as in The Netherlands ) ; and whether elections use plurality or proportional representation procedures . |
| 11 | Do you think this sort of advertising is a good or a bad idea ? |
| 12 | I 'm not sure if this is a good or a bad thing , but the game 's got practically nothing to do with the Bullseye TV show . |
| 13 | The techniques themselves are identical whether the variable being controlled is a prior or an intervening variable in the relationship being investigated . |
| 14 | For any tiny Dart of the stratigraphical column of which we are particularly fond in Our own backyard , we can almost always find somewhere else in the world where that same division is a hundred or a thousand times thicker . |
| 15 | You can tell whether a text you have is a critical or a popular edition by looking at the following features : — Does it have a note on the text , explaining spelling conventions used , etc. ? — Does it have an introduction by an editor ? — Does it have footnotes or endnotes ? — Is it a numbered part of a multi-volume edition ? |
| 16 | ‘ A trusted formula for me is a 57 or a Beyer 201 , with perhaps a Neumann U87 in the room — but definitely not too close to the cab . |
| 17 | Whether we think the high price P M charged by a monopolist is a rip-off or the just reflection of what consumers are prepared to pay is a pure value judgement about equity . |
| 18 | First , there are factors related to the size of the country and its internal organisation : whether it is a federal or a unitary state for example . |
| 19 | The decision to apply for a place in a residential care home is very often a traumatic one , whether it is a planned or an emergency admission . |
| 20 | That the dish is tasty and that another helping will upset the stomach are relevant facts because they do modify inclination ; that it is a rainy or a sunny day and that the wallpaper is yellow or white are irrelevant because they do not move the child in either direction . |
| 21 | How will it , without a list or register , determine whether a household is a single or a two-person household ? |
| 22 | The second dimension used three variables : whether the state is unitary and centralized or federal and dispersed ; whether the legislature has one or two ( strong ) chambers ; and whether there is an unwritten or a written , rigid constitution . |