Example sentences of "or is it [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Or is it Jack-easy ? ’
2 Forty-five thousand ( or is it fifty-five thousand — it 's difficult keeping a body-count ) ordinary citizens have been killed .
3 It looks like our ‘ friends ’ at the end of the East Lancs could be awaiting another 25 , or is it 26 years now !
4 And he tells you when he wants to go , or is it regular times of the day ? .
5 Or is it such a mess ?
6 Is the concept of sensation involved in these sentences such that it makes sense to say that the same sensation is excited by the presence to our organs of numerous objects , or is it such that numerous objects ( and , indeed , the same object at different times ) can not but excite different , though possibly exactly similar sensations ?
7 Or is it sore down the sides ?
8 Or is it good afternoon now , is n't it ?
9 Or is it thicker ?
10 Or is it straight-forward cheating because that is the only way they know to play the game ? ’
11 or is it all rust , ruin , death duties and mortgages
12 Or is it all an illusion , a phantasm derived from mere figures , a figment of journalistic imagination , an evanescent creature of dream and the wishful thinking of those for whom history is proceeding too slowly , and who would prefer to see an era change during their lifetimes rather than to live within the dulling envelope of merely one ?
13 Or is it all one word ?
14 Or is it all in that cotton-wool mind ?
15 No , but are you still interested in this Connon business or is it all neatly tied up ? ’
16 I 'll also be talking to John MacGregor , about the privatization of British Rail , has he really given in to his rebels who want B R to be able to bid for the franchises , or is it all a clever conjuring trick ?
17 Or is it all talk ?
18 Is it thirty three percent thirty three percent thirty three percent or is it all weighted one way or the other ?
19 Or is it all broken up ?
20 Or is it one of your imitations ?
21 Or is it one of those presents which
22 Does anyone know if you can order more than one ticket with the new membership cards , or is it one ticket per member ?
23 Or is it one eight six on there ?
24 There 's lots of myths about Rachmanite landlords — is that really the case or is it one huge myth ?
25 or is it two hours in the morning ?
26 Or is it new ? ’
27 It 's a question of authenticity — is this theme deeply-held , is it central to an understanding of the author 's character , or is it superficial gloss ; perhaps even so slightly phoney ?
28 Erm , just picking little bits , I mean er , we when we say actually what it is erm , annual report do we say the annual report to parents , or is it annual report just I know that that 's minor but at the actual top what do we actually call the thing that we 're presenting ?
29 • Is the fryer available in free-standing form or is it available as a modular unit to build into a suite ?
30 He was , as far as anyone can be reasonably certain , the first Briton to climb all the 59 ( or is it 75 ? ) 4,000 metre peaks in the Alps .
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