Example sentences of "[is] this [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Is this just a way of expressing friendliness ?
2 Could I be bisexual or is this just a fantasy ?
3 Nor is this just a problem that is eating away the character of historic towns and conservation areas .
4 Is this just a case of too much sun ? ’
5 Is this just a game for you ?
6 Is this just an aberration , if you look at the road markings , you 'll see it seems to be official , cos the road is marked out for driving on the right , and the reason is that er , traffic law in this country says , that vehicles drive on the left , except in Savoy Street .
7 Is this not a form of stereotyping at least as damaging as racist and sexist attitudes ?
8 is this not a recipe for disaster ?
9 Why is this not an explanation of the lunar crust being thicker on one side than on the other ?
10 The testimony of a witness in a case tried at Matara early in the nineteenth century illustrates the lack of plausibility of much court testimony : ‘ I saw the two prisoners drive a head of cattle — It was in the high road — It was about two hours before dark — We asked them where are you going with the animal — Is this not the animal of the schoolmaster .
11 At least , is this not the tendency in the beginning with most very young children and certainly with lively , healthy ones ?
12 Have the political and creative aspirations of the sector been abandoned in the climate of new realism ’ , or is this simply the beginning of a new phase ?
13 Within a cell what happens is this right a cell , what happens is that erm D N A is copied on to something called erm R N A , which is a kind of template , messenger R N A , it 's a kind of copy and it 's a single strand , corresponding to one of the strands on the original D N A with the same base structure .
14 Is this why the myth swims through our memory ?
15 Is this why the Unit and all its works seem to have disappeared from the records — because it was unthinkable that such a document should officially exist ?
16 Nor is this necessarily a model of steady decline .
17 But neither is this necessarily the case .
18 Is this actually a book that er is going to be of any assistance to me ?
19 Is this now the age of ‘ lies , damn lies and journalism ’ ?
20 Is this how the head of the security police was passing his time ?
21 Nor is this only a question of a difference between writing and speech , as might at first appear .
22 Is this merely a definition of the limits of a gratuitous promise ( as in Thomas v Thomas , infra ) or is it an offer to contract , the consideration being P's forbearance from marriage ?
23 ‘ So , Firmin , is this still a joke ? ’
24 The clarifying question is : " Is this really a problem or am I just choosing to look at it as a problem ? "
25 Now of course it may be that the child has caught a worry about schooling from the parent , but I think that 's the first thing to sort out — is this really a problem in the child , or is it a problem in the parent 's mind ?
26 Now of course it may be that the child has caught a worry about schooling from the parent , but I think that 's the first thing to sort out — is this really a problem in the child , or is it a problem in the parent 's mind ?
27 Is this really the case ?
28 But this is a fine company , and with the shares already down by half from their peak last year is this really the time to sell ?
29 Similarly , it is reasonable to suppose that many of the haves will be among the most ruthless of society , and will pass on their inhumane ethic to their children , thereby perpetuating it : is this really the future we wish for our species ?
30 But is this really the explanation , or could there be other factors at work ?
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