Example sentences of "is it the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it the Chinese who would now consider you my responsibility ? ’ |
| 2 | Is it the presentation of information ? |
| 3 | Is it the lure of the bright lights or is it something more economic . |
| 4 | Does it , for example , refer to the marks made on paper , or is it the whole of the thinking process involved in solving mathematical problems ? |
| 5 | Is it the whole hou I mean how , what half the house ? |
| 6 | Is it the teacher 's job or is it the responsibility of the parents to instruct children in good manners , acceptable standards of behaviour , dress and the difference between right and wrong ? |
| 7 | Is it the responsibility of medicine to compensate for poor quality of life or to eliminate injustices by non-consenting life-terminating acts — or is death to be seen as a therapy ? |
| 8 | Is it the responsibility of the archivist , librarian , or museum curator ? |
| 9 | is it the space bar ? |
| 10 | Is it the Telegraph ? |
| 11 | Is it the customer 's own fault ? |
| 12 | Is it the Government 's policy to arrest the accelerating decline in manufacturing — both in investment and employment — and , if so , when they will do it and how ? |
| 13 | Is it the Government 's contention that such an emergency , if there be an emergency , is relevant only in England and Wales ? |
| 14 | Is it the telephone ? |
| 15 | Can you advise me how to stop stem rot on Water Wisteria , or is it the nibbling of the Platies and Swords that cause this ? |
| 16 | So the conversation went something like ‘ Is it the curtains , is it a book , is it the window , is it sandwiches , is it a table . |
| 17 | Is there an ideal mix ? ii Does the degree of dementia matter , or is it the presence of behaviour problems which makes a particular dementing person unacceptable to an integrated service ? iii What efforts can be made to overcome the problems of integration and avoid " segregation by stealth " ? |
| 18 | Is it the opportunity to slip in some data that are not strong enough to form a peer-reviewed paper or the liberty to digress and speculate which entices authors ? |
| 19 | Erm is it the film on stage ? |
| 20 | We were down , we were down much further and the hospital was that opposite the park , like , is it the park or something ? |
| 21 | Is it the colour of the windows ? |
| 22 | Is it the will of those most directly affected , the local community , which should determine the outcome , or the will of the nation as a whole , as expressed through the decisions of Parliament ? |
| 23 | Is it the will of the assembly to accept that addendum ? |
| 24 | Is it the will of the general assembly so to accept and approve ? |
| 25 | Is it the metal , the alkali , the base or the carbonate ? |
| 26 | Is it the balcony ? |
| 27 | Nor is it the case that the Federal Republic is using the issue of democratic accountability to drag its feet on EMU . |
| 28 | ‘ Or is it the case , as millions now believe , that she does not want a resolution to this dispute ? ’ |
| 29 | But let us ask again : Is it the case that moral qualities can not be transferred ? |
| 30 | Is it the case that the rural sector is undergoing a process of proletarianisation or peasantisation ? |