Example sentences of "be this [adv] a [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 | 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 . |
| 11 | Nor is this necessarily a model of steady decline . |
| 12 | Is this actually a book that er is going to be of any assistance to me ? |
| 13 | Nor is this only a question of a difference between writing and speech , as might at first appear . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | ‘ So , Firmin , is this still a joke ? ’ |
| 16 | The clarifying question is : " Is this really a problem or am I just choosing to look at it as a problem ? " |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | 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 ? |
| 19 | Or is this perhaps a product of the over-excited brain of a middle-aged and somewhat disparaged poet , when he finds that his ignored , his arcane , his deviously perspicuous meanings , which he thought not meanings , since no one appeared able to understand them , had after all one clear-eyed and amused reader and judge ? |
| 20 | Is this perhaps a comment on the inadequacy of the law and the difficulty of policing and getting convictions ? |
| 21 | the movement which , at the close of the colonial era , led it to be asked of the West what entitles its culture , its science , its social organization , and finally its rationality itself , to be able to claim universal validity : was this not a mirage associated with economic domination and political hegemony ? |