Example sentences of "is [pron] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is nothing so ever to do with that Australian or Cockney mechanic . ’ |
| 2 | It is something else altogether to understand these topics as well , and therefore to appreciate the consequences of the events and transactions affecting the Farringdon group . |
| 3 | It was this — you have now , or should have , at least a sovereign left out of your monthly pay & what survived of the 15/ from the Bank ; so is it not best to send it all to me at once ? |
| 4 | Is it not enough to have to endure that when one is alive ? ’ |
| 5 | Is it not better to use a product with a slightly less than exquisite perfume for the sake of the planet as well as our health ? |
| 6 | For Chambers , his witness of doubtful character , he found this Nixonian endorsement : ‘ Is it not better to tell the whole truth in the end than to refuse , as Hiss did , to tell it at all ? ’ |
| 7 | Is it sometimes better to avoid the word ‘ deaf ’ ? |
| 8 | After a brief apology she said : ‘ Is it all right to allow credit for this , Miss Carne ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Tell me , Uncle , is it all right to carry on thinking about ordinary gravity force instead of wonky space — if you want to ? ’ |
| 10 | Is it all right to eat or drink before a session ? |
| 11 | ‘ But is it all right to eat Grandson Richard 's sandwich ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Is it all right to walk on a Sunday , Uncle Rory ? ’ |
| 13 | While attentive to the spirit of his reproach , it is not enough to retreat into the security of a duality — even a dialectic duality — in which difference is always already valorized against the corrosiveness of repetition ; but nor is it enough simply to reverse the poles and allow the current to run the other way . |
| 14 | The odour may be objectionable to him but is it sufficiently so to amount to a nuisance at law ? |
| 15 | Is he good enough to play for us ? |
| 16 | Is he not here to greet us ? ’ |
| 17 | And is hers strong enough to marry a man who regards unpunctuality almost as a mortal sin ? |