Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [pers pn] [be] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Or perhaps it 's this city , ’ he says . |
| 2 | Or perhaps it is that life is simply not fair , and that skill and cunning are what we should be using to navigate its choppy waters , rather than making open displays of bravado against the odds . |
| 3 | Or perhaps it was that recollection , however poignant , was better than emptiness . |
| 4 | Perhaps he was afraid of the responsibility , or perhaps it was pure selfishness . |
| 5 | It would not be appropriate to consult prospective purchasers , whether or not they are management-employer buy-out teams , in drawing up the disposal programme . |
| 6 | For example , if an idiom may be inflected , the inflectional affixes are carried by the grammatically appropriate elements within the idiom , whether or not they are semantic constituents ; that is to say , the elements of an idiom retain at least some of their grammatical identity : |
| 7 | Exemption clauses shifting liability , ( from the party in default to the innocent party ) for third party claims of this nature relate in fact ( as between the parties to the contract , and whether or not they are natural persons ) to economic loss , so that s 2(2) will apply rather than s 2(1) . |
| 8 | In estimating the number of phonemes in spoken versions of words such as " autumn " and " session " both groups of poor spellers made more errors than a group of good spellers , regardless of whether or not they were good readers . |
| 9 | Whether or not they were former members of Big Flame , the International Marxist Group , or any of the other sects which now dissolved themselves into the Labour Party , the Right-Ons ' most effective weapon was an endless capacity to attend even the most obscure meetings . |
| 10 | ‘ By whether or not it 's good business ? ’ |
| 11 | Whether or not it is good fortune to fall in love with the person you marry , our culture dictates that this is the basis of proper marriage . |
| 12 | A fresh standard supermarket turkey costs a little more than frozen , while the price of a traditional farm fresh bird does vary depending on the producer , breed and whether or not it is free range — but you can pay up to twice as much . |
| 13 | But where once it was poisonous mixtures , including deadly white lead , which claimed the allegiance of the fashion-conscious , today it is the fruits of science , which include collagen , vitamins , ‘ systems ’ , micro-capsules , thymus extracts and retinoic acid . |
| 14 | So if you can start writing your list of , you have examples already of other areas that you think could be interesting , useful educational , helpful to a child either as in a group or maybe it 's two children ! |
| 15 | He said , ‘ There 's absolutely nothing to see and it 's awfully full of nettles ’ ; at the same moment Jean Powers was saying noisily that not a solitary soul had been into the Britches in years and the village wondered what Edward got up to in there — ha ha ! — some people said he must be into black magic , or maybe he was growing cannabis . |
| 16 | Once or twice he 's spotted guys who were news at the time . |
| 17 | After this the irregulars could no longer claim the benefits of an ambiguous position ; either they were adventurous sailors who were willing to settle down and live peaceful lives once the Spaniards stopped harassing them ( and Morgan showed the way by becoming Deputy Governor of Jamaica ) , or else they were straightforward pirates who were ready to plunder the ships of any nation including their own . |
| 18 | We felt that nonetheless it was good value for money by British if not American standards . |
| 19 | As a teenager she had been frail and very light , and although now she is two stone heavier , and healthier for it , she still believes that young women should be thin , even skeletally so . |
| 20 | Even though we know that comparatively we 're all millionaires . |
| 21 | He had no idea , for the letter forced him at last to admit to himself that he knew nothing about his son , that he had lost touch with him , had allowed him over the years to drift further and further away so that now they were virtual strangers . |
| 22 | And there was this view in Britain that maybe it was some kind of Russian er you know that it was a Russian manoeuvre . |
| 23 | The possibility that we belong to such a so-called noumenal realm ( that is , a realm of things in themselves ) in our true being , also suggests dimly how it can be possible that ultimately we are free agents , who can cause ourselves to act according to the moral law , whatever the pressures upon us , in spite of the fact that at the level of appearance we are simply parts of the natural order of cause and effect , and as such merely animals impelled by our instinctive desires |
| 24 | Now in fact what that means for me is that actually we 're all programmers — we always have been — but we have n't been used to explaining it in quite the way that computers need us to explain it , and of course that goes back to this question of understanding English that we were talking about last time . |
| 25 | There was nothing so cosily malicious , once it was mutually accepted , as dead love , and besides it was plain Dotty had a thing going with Fairchild . |
| 26 | After the race , Ibn Fayoud moves all his horses to Bill and suddenly he 's big buddies with Butler . |
| 27 | Fucking , fire 's this gun at him point blank and he goes and he stands there like this , and he , he stood there and he goes running round the corner sort of thing and then he goes he ca n't of missed from that fucking distance you know , and its that distance and er , in the , in the car , the mate goes , the mate sort of till he passed out , and he goes bring it to me , he goes , and its still alive , he goes , but matey in the front goes oh my he goes , I knew you 'd fuck up he goes and so they 're all blanks you |
| 28 | We we tried to do as much as we could we drove from erm Colorado right the way round California up through Utah and stuff and so it is some parts of the desert are very boring . |
| 29 | And so it were good propaganda this er this , people were saying , Well they 're prepared to go to Russia and fight the Russians to re re you know release our lads , they 're trying to capture . |
| 30 | one of the criticisms or possible criticisms of the M R C figures was that these were all patients who had been entered into superficial bladder cancer studies and they do n't therefore re represent all because people are selected to go into the trial and perhaps they are lower risk patients than others and in fact I believe that the recurrence rate in the M R C studies are lower than you would expect for er superficial bladder cancer in general . |