Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pers pn] [adv] [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Goode said he trusted himself , and clearly he is a good doctor ; but can we always afford to trust , or do we thereby run the risk of taking a step down the road towards euthanasia , both voluntary and involuntary . |
| 2 | Will this also drive the protein skimmer , or do I also need a small powerhead ( Rena C20 ) as in the instructions ? |
| 3 | Or do I simply feel the same ? |
| 4 | Have you something specific to ask , or do you just want a general overview of your life ? ’ |
| 5 | Can you can you tell me or have you got a pic , where does the picture usually go ? does it go right at the top or do you usually have a bit of headline what happened in that Mirror one there ? |
| 6 | Or did he just leave a message to let me know he 'd called ? ’ |
| 7 | Or did he just want a special name for her to use ? |
| 8 | They disagree strongly about its consequences : was it a watershed in British industrial relations , as some Communist writers would have us believe , or did it barely change the course of TUC and trade union policy , as Gordon Phillips has argued ? |
| 9 | What did you , did you do like a meal like chicken with potatoes and blaa , blaa , blaa , or did you just miss the foods . |
| 10 | Did he get in on merit or did you just pay a phenomenally am , large amount of cash for him ? |
| 11 | Was it chosen to suit your weight and with comfort in mind , or did you just like the look of it ? |
| 12 | Or did you just see the info on rss ? |
| 13 | Or did you just find the whole business tedious ? |
| 14 | ‘ Did you or did you not get a cheque ? ’ |
| 15 | Or does it just indicate the different ways in which national political shifts are experienced locally ? |
| 16 | These sources are neither totally reliable , nor do they always provide the information required . |
| 17 | And remember that the most characteristic meals are not necessarily found behind the most imposing facades , nor do they necessarily carry the highest price tags . |
| 18 | People in late twentieth-century Britain do not necessarily do less for their relatives than they have done for the past two centuries , nor do they necessarily have a weaker sense of obligation , but they do have to work out the nature of their relationships and the patterns of support associated with them , in circumstances which are very different from the past . |
| 19 | Not all advisers feel comfortable asking clients for these personal details nor do they necessarily have the time to do it . |
| 20 | The tunes in English are not necessarily the same in form as those of other languages , nor do they necessarily produce the same effect . |
| 21 | If , for instance , Ms Intrepid acquires a small cafe and wishes to convert it to high-class tearooms and this necessitates minor internal building works and extensive redecoration , planning permission will not be required , since the alterations are purely internal and do not alter the use to which the buildings are put , nor do they materially affect the external appearance of the property . |
| 22 | Coverage failed to highlight the wrongful arrests of blacks or excessive use of force by the police ; nor did it adequately convey the extent of pro-social activity engaged in by black ‘ counter-rioters ’ , such as helping the wounded or assisting the emergency services . |
| 23 | Nor did it necessarily require the Great Powers to act as the guarantors of the regime established . |
| 24 | But Baccy never used a curse word , nor did he ever take the briar pipe out of his mouth despite having abandoned the tobacco habit on joining the church at the age of eighteen . |
| 25 | That is to say , the variation is not necessarily patterned in one single linguistic dimension ( for example , it does not necessarily move in a single phonetic direction : it may diverge in two or more directions ) , nor does it necessarily display a unilinear or unidirectional pattern in terms of any independent ‘ social ’ variable : on the contrary , the patterns shown in relation to different social variables may conflict and interact in a variety of ways . |
| 26 | Land reform does not necessarily lead to an immediate rise in output , neither does it increase a physical supply of land , nor does it significantly alter the ratio of peasants for the amount of land available . |
| 27 | And let us not forget the men of Sodom , the original buggers ( in the proper sense of that much used word ) . |
| 28 | The ending with the UN sign-off tells the viewer who is communicating the message and lets them then make the connection . |
| 29 | Do the media meet their own criteria of objectivity and balance in such representations , and do they reasonably address the underlying grievances of participants ? |
| 30 | And do you normally buy the software from the same person that sells you the computer ? |