Example sentences of "[be] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know whether I am or not . |
| 2 | Still I can look efficient underneath that bonnet , but whether I am or not anybody can , anybody can |
| 3 | Am or pm or is that ? |
| 4 | He 's not human , never mind caring whether we are or not . ’ |
| 5 | This is particularly so when you take into account that most people feel they are in the right when they are angry , whether they are or not . |
| 6 | But whether they are or not , let us handle them carefully . ’ |
| 7 | How can we know whether we are or not ? |
| 8 | 23 Whether you are or not , assume you have gone vegetarian . |
| 9 | Whether they are or not , they can suffer severe medical , social and other consequences from their consistent heavy drinking . |
| 10 | Lentils coming from Ethiopia , you get wheat from the States , rice from the States , ap apples from France , tea from India , coffee from Brazil and Columbia , sugar from the Windward Islands , bananas from all over the place , you know those are the things that keep us alive , no , you know , whether we one think they are or not , but I mean them things are what keeps the economy alive for one , it 's also what keeps us personally alive if you do n't know why we take an interest in Third World issues , I would say that it 's that , we 're dependent on these countries , we could produce enough foods for our own needs , but we would n't have oranges , coffee , tea , sugar , you know cos we ca n't grow them in this country we , we really depend on those things to stay alive , and for that reason alone we should have some kind of interest , if you went to Kenya for example they would be staggered at how little you know about their country given how much they know about yours they know a lot about this country , a lot of it is a bit loopy , but then what you know about their country is probably a bit off centre as well , and you know I hope that this is something that we 're reversing in this section , our perceptions of the Third World or the south or whatever we choose to call it , colour a lot of the things that we think and do and say and it increases the amount of racism that there is around us all , all those kind of things , erm and I think that it is really important to look at what a perception is , you know , for example what 's your perception of this ? |
| 11 | Really , oh sometimes , I always wonder if they are or not . . |
| 12 | Well , I do n't know really whether they are or not , I mean he must earn damn good money , erm not so much off his that |
| 13 | Oh that 's what it looks like whether you are or not oh , oh |
| 14 | Then there was the element of fascination — I know practically nothing about him , nor what his business activities are or why he spends so much time in foreign countries . |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't care who these people are or why they want the letters , but when they phone tomorrow you 're going to agree to whatever they demand . |
| 16 | About who they are or why they are doing it or what they want . |
| 17 | Got it out the way , just to warn him , there 's no po point him getting all these letters about mortgages , you know they 're who you are or well ca n't do that , can you ? |
| 18 | In materials composed of sand-sized particles this depth is just a few millimetres , but in clay-sized materials in which the voids are or less across it can be tens of metres . |
| 19 | It asks soldiers whether they , their friends or family members are or ever have been members of the IRA , INLA , IRSP , Sinn Fein , the Communist Party or the Connolly Youth Movement . |
| 20 | There are n't enough biscuits ; you can have tea and coffee in the morning but only tea in the afternoon ; no-one knows where the switches are or how the equipment works ; and so on . |
| 21 | People in some parts of the world assume that their basic human rights are inherent and seldom pause to question what they are or how to ensure that they will be available to future generations . |
| 22 | When we meet , we seem to go in circles ; we 're great at telling the others how wrong they are or how to solve the problem , but we are not prepared to give in a bit and make the necessary compromises . |
| 23 | We simply do n't know how good they are or how well they will conform to the current Adobe PostScript standards . |
| 24 | Colleagues , you can purchase , you can purchase , CDs of all the various different sessions and indeed all your own speeches if you want to remind you th how good they are or how bad they are . |
| 25 | Of course , no matter how explicit these conventional procedures are or how scrupulously they are used , some cases will arise , as the sample cases showed , when the instructions will be seen to be unclear or incomplete . |
| 26 | Yeah erm so er yeah right that 's er because I mean what 's nice to see in these things is if you 're able to tell some sort of coherent little story from er y'know kind of these er people 's ideas , themes , speculations , evidence from previous studies and all that kind of thing and this is this is the data that we 've got that tells us something about those and says how misconceived they all are or how it may confirm them or whatever and then y'know a couple of bits sort of so it 's like a nice narrative but sort of fairly y'know sort of continuous argument going through which is nice to see and so er yeah . |
| 27 | We , we had a letter from the International Secretarium in August or September I think saying that they 'd changed the law and all prisoners of a certain category should have been released and our prisoners were amongst , our prisoner was amongst that list , but erm , they did n't say that they have n't got any definite news whether he had been or not , about the release . |
| 28 | While it may be straightforward to assess whether a lease is renewed properly or a contract accurately drafted — it will soon be clear if they have been or not — these transactions do n't carry much potential for building long-term relationships or adding value through additional services . |
| 29 | Grunte had not the faintest idea whether she had been or not , but the invitation seemed genuine enough . |
| 30 | The greater the Mercian involvement in south-eastern England , particularly Kent , however attractive control of Kentish resources may have been or however militarily desirable the containment of a possibly unstable local hegemony , the more vulnerable was Offa 's position in the face of hostile anti-Mercian sentiment south as well as north of the Thames . |