Example sentences of "[conj] [conj] [pron] [verb] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within a minute or so you have one fully rejuvenated disk drive , hopefully . |
| 2 | I can find no evidence that anyone accompanied him or that anyone met him here . ’ |
| 3 | Or that he hanged himself virtually under water ? |
| 4 | And whether they tend to get older and move on , or like you say I totally agree , Have they took off somewhere else ? |
| 5 | In the airs they compose the French always look for what is sweet , easy and flowing , and for what follows on readily ; everything is in the same key , or if they change it sometimes , they do it with preparations and softenings which render the air as natural and as continuous as if there were no change at all … |
| 6 | If walking down streets teeming with non-residents induces mild panic , or if it strikes you as undignified to whizz around a museum in 10 minutes , because entry is part of the combination ticket you have bought from the tourist office , then forget Bruges . |
| 7 | Good do n't forget if I go too quickly or if I give you too much say , Ooh hang on . |
| 8 | Metaphors produce a clear effect on the reader but that effect will become confused and diminished if you use too many or if you mix them up , as in these lamentable examples : |
| 9 | Or if you want something else , the weather 's rotten as well . |
| 10 | so he can either sleep in bed with his dad and J J or but they make him up a bed on that . |
| 11 | However , this did not suggest that they became pregnant by default or because they had nothing else to do , rather motherhood was a central focus of their lives ( Phoenix , 1987 ) . |
| 12 | You 've begun something with this Estabrook business , for instance , and I 'll need to watch it closely , or before we know it there 'll be ripples , spreading through the Imajica . ’ |
| 13 | I do n't even know if you have a mother or father , or whether they made you up in a test tube . |
| 14 | Oh yeah and this chap inherited the money off his mother and father and er , I do n't know whether he drunk it or whether he gambled it away , but he lost the business so that , and that was the beginning of the breaking up in my er opinion of the fleck shops like , you know . |
| 15 | The vital phrase is ‘ any computer ’ at the end of section 1(1) ( a ) and the Act has been drafted , it is submitted , so as to deal with someone who misuses a computer , whether he accesses it indirectly by using another computer , perhaps in other premises , or whether he accesses it directly , as happened in the present case . |
| 16 | … Whether , as a matter of expression , you say , as was said in the case of Watson v. Fram Reinforced Concrete Co . Ltd. , that this is to be explained by postulating a continuing duty , or merely projecting the relationship of duty into the future , or whether you regard it as possible to establish a breach of duty as at birth by reference to an act antecedent to the accrual of the cause of action , may be open to debate , but it has no bearing on the precise question we are called upon to answer , namely , whether the defendant owed a duty of care to the infant plaintiff . |
| 17 | Or as he put it elsewhere : " the Deposing Doctrine , and placing the Power in the People , is but the Spittle of the Papists and Jesuits , which our Whigs and Dissenters have Lick't up " . |
| 18 | Children may sort with or without adult help when they bring things or when they pack them away . |
| 19 | The areas of learning and experience are those identified earlier , except that they added one more : technological . |
| 20 | The batsmen all attack like Greenidge or Richards , except that they do it virtually all the time and there is little idea of defensive play when the bowling demands it . |
| 21 | They were vague shadowy figures , rather like her own mother had been , except that she remembered them slightly better because , when she had been about eight years old , Granny Tremayne had driven her over to Newquay where they had been staying . |
| 22 | By degrees she , Dinah , had become little more than his reader , except that he gave her too many babies , no doubt absent-mindedly . |
| 23 | She thought , Now he 'll say what he was going to say last night , except that I made it hard for him , I was so unloving , so unresponsive . |
| 24 | The first problem is that although we claim we no longer look at such concepts of ‘ fault ’ and ‘ who 's to blame ’ when dishing out the money , or the children — even judges now realize that most marriage break-ups have two guilty parties — the law still forces one spouse to complain about the other . |
| 25 | ‘ I think , Mr Boldwood , that although I respect you very much , I do n't feel — enough for you — to accept your proposal . ’ |
| 26 | So , you 'll find that once you pick it up , it 's very hard to put down ! |
| 27 | I got Optrex in my room but I bought that cos I used it so much . |
| 28 | Is it a training need , or could it just be the fact that if they pass it on to you , they know you 're dead ? |
| 29 | But they 're worried that if they turn it down they could go to the bottom of the housing list . |
| 30 | This is strong stuff , true only in a minority of instances , but Hare 's point is that the potential for stupidity and even tragedy is always present when people mislead themselves and others into thinking that if they want something strongly enough then they are entitled to it . |