Example sentences of "is [pron] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this was just a game , and before some one points out that the stock market is itself just a game ( for somewhat privileged people ) , I should add that this was just a family game being marketed in Sheffield for Christmas . |
| 2 | ‘ Dipsomania ? ’ enquired Henry Tyler with interest , ‘ or is she just a clairvoyant ? ’ |
| 3 | I mean sexy little telephone calls between he who will be king and his , is she a mistress , is she a girlfriend , is she merely a friend , but at any event she 's married and her husband 's in the next bedroom as far as we can gather , you know erm do those kind of conversations and would , I mean maybe it 's important to sort of say and Anne probably has this , but Peter might not , I mean when I grew up the Royal Family were a cert sort of image and you might have known about George the Third who was mad , I mean who else was brought up George the Third was mad and Geor an and this guy was a , a drunk and this guy was a a womaniser , this guy was this , but Victoria you know mourned for sixty years or whatever it was , but this Royal Family , I E the , the Royal Family with which I grew up and Anne did were really sweet nice little Windsors who behaved themselves and that was what was , went into our psychic and there was the odd crack about Phil the Great who 's the Queen 's husband , you know and how he perhaps had an eye for the ladies , but there was never any photographs of him being or any evidence that it might have gone further than that particular and basically there was , that any , there was the fact that he was a sailor when he married the Queen anyway so all sailors are like that are n't they ! |
| 4 | What happened to Tina Turner then , is she now a thing of the past ? |
| 5 | Is there not a question in there , unless I 'm going , er does it ask you er alright you can talk fast something like that |
| 6 | One , is there not a way in which your good tool could be perverted , and two , since this tool must inevitably be given into the hands of the people you despise for their aggressiveness and bad inheritance and rearing , how do you expect them to use it ? |
| 7 | If there is a faculty of science and one of applied science why is there not a faculty of applied social science as well as a faculty of social science ? |
| 8 | Is there not a time-scale |
| 9 | But is there not a case for saying that we are currently witnessing the historic counter attack of Christian Democracy , which has summoned up the traditions of Eastern Europe to redress the balance of the West ? |
| 10 | Is there not a case for an entirely new agenda of constitutional talks , involving all elected representatives of both north and south , to agree a solution to this crisis ? |
| 11 | Is there not a case for the EC to reassure both sides that they can live in peace if the troops go ? |
| 12 | When the life of a child can so easily hang in the balance , is there not a case for recommending that all parents attend a practical course in first aid , rather than relying on the printed page ? |
| 13 | Is there not a book of angling knots ? |
| 14 | But is there not a contradiction between being so fiercely hostile to relativism in history and aesthetics and at the same time asserting that there are no objective criteria for deciding whether a work is good or bad ? |
| 15 | Although we are a parliamentary democracy and would expect to take nearly every final decision in this place , is there not a body of respectable constitutional opinion that says that , if we propose to transfer the democratic accountability from a Westminster Parliament to an unelected European Commission , or even an elected European Parliament , the British people are entitled to take a view on the matter ? |
| 16 | But is there not a distinction to be made between the role of the unions in Labour 's internal democracy , and their role in society ? |
| 17 | Is there not a rumour that if they all dress in grey and follow the Prime Minister 's example , they can all ride in a special railway carriage without a typist in sight ? |
| 18 | Since many of the products , and most of the drugs , emerge from economies fuelled by intense competition , is there not a danger of mere frivolous novelties or wasteful duplication , all of which will nonetheless require testing ? |
| 19 | But is there not a danger that , at 14 , their choice would perpetuate class divisions — ‘ I am a professional , you 're good with your hands , she should work in a shop ’ ? |
| 20 | I am grateful to the Minister , but is there not a danger that there could be an unfair distribution of funding research between the new universities , which will be formed from polytechnics , and the traditional universities ? |
| 21 | Is there not a danger that modern cases go on too long and cover too wide an area ? |
| 22 | My Lords is there not a danger at looking at er accident and emergency departments in isolation from the rest of the hospital . |
| 23 | Is there not a Stanley blade knocking about anywhere where you could just pare it down a wee bit ? |
| 24 | Is there here a tendency to reduce Christianity simply to a movement within history , describable in the favourite Romantic categories of inner awareness and historical development ? |
| 25 | Is there indeed a case for some form of national track authority in place of six regions ? |
| 26 | First , is there inevitably a limit to the resources available . |
| 27 | Why is there often a difference between formal and informal structures ? |
| 28 | As she walked home in the dark , she thought to herself , ‘ Why is there always a catch to it ? |
| 29 | Gamesmanship apart , is there really a chance to salvage the best opportunity yet for peace in the Basque region ? |
| 30 | Is there really a dichotomy of interests between the two ? |