Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [pron] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Gorengs ' effects made the sea-passage with us ; or rather we made the passage with the effects , for that was the whole idea . |
| 2 | The shame of it may have caused the slight stroke that overtook him , or perhaps it preceded the disaster . |
| 3 | But it was too late , or perhaps I forced the confession out of myself , determined once and for all to rid myself of the burden of this secret . |
| 4 | By contrast , during the century or so which separated the Reformation from the civil war , very few English parish churches were built or substantially renovated . |
| 5 | Over the next twenty years or so he established the basis of the homoeopathic materia medica . |
| 6 | Wolski was one of the fifty or so who survived the escape and the remaining months of the war and by a succession of chances so slight , so unpredictable , so arbitrary that they would banish from his mind for ever the belief that there was any sense or pattern to this life , he found his way to Britain in 1945 . |
| 7 | The problem.solving framework , in contrast , ensures that the information that emerges regarding a specific pupil 's difficulty in its context is generated in such a way that it also helps teachers in general — whether or not they know the pupil under discussion — to learn to ask themselves the kinds of questions that are helpful whenever problems arise in any pupil 's learning situation . |
| 8 | Immigration Officers could see that Zahira was pregnant and , whether or not they thought the baby 's birth imminent , they could hear her screaming in pain . |
| 9 | Replaced by a stagestruck girl of fourteen , recruited locally , she would be superficially trained in a matter of hours by the Head Girl then , absolutely terrified out of her wits , be put on stage the same night to pacify the Producer , for having paid for eight costumes for a number , he usually insisted on eight bodies filling them , whether or not they knew the routine . |
| 10 | Hough and Mayhew ( 1988 ) regard these figures as underestimates and Worrall and Pease ‘ s ( 1986 ) re-analysis of the BCS data which looked at all crimes , and attempted crimes , involving contact and where the victim could identify whether or not they knew the offender , found that women were much more likely to say that they knew the offender well and that the offender was a spouse in nearly 40 per cent of cases . |
| 11 | These pensioners have to pay standing charges whether or not they use the service , just to ensure that they can use the service when needed . |
| 12 | To help her , she is allowed to ask three people to turn round , which they do as far as possible without revealing whether or not they have the ball . |
| 13 | In pending cases wardship ceases on 14 October 1992 and all applications prior to that date must therefore be made to the High Court whether or not they have the effect of varying an existing order ( see Appendix 5 ) . |
| 14 | Venture capitalists examine numerous opportunities , assessing whether or not they have the potential for successful buy-outs. ( 2 ) Negotiating with the vendor . |
| 15 | A person who enters under a right conferred by law is treated as a visitor , whether or not they have the occupier 's express permission to enter ( s. 2(6) ) . |
| 16 | Another transformation which maps one colinear solution of ( 6.22 ) on another , whether or not they satisfy the boundary conditions , is given by ( 12.2 ) where b is an arbitrary constant and . |
| 17 | The jurymen are asked to hear the evidence and on the basis of the evidence to decide whether or not they think the prosecution have proved , beyond reasonable doubt , that Mr X was drunk in charge , or whatever the crime may be . |
| 18 | Suburbanites in the tri-county area also pay premiums on licensing fees for automobiles to offset transport problems in the city — whether or not they enter the city limits . |
| 19 | And whether or not they enhance the efficiency of the police , they certainly expand the crime statistics … |
| 20 | The dying themselves will nearly always let it be known , albeit tacitly , whether or not they want the truth . |
| 21 | Yours to keep , whether or not you keep the print . |
| 22 | Whether or not you opened the discussion , you may be invited to have the last word . |
| 23 | " That income shall , whether it would or would not have been chargeable to income tax apart from the provisions of this section , be deemed to be the income of that individual for all the purposes of the Income Tax Acts " — the individual ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom can be chargeable under the section whether or not he receives the income . |
| 24 | This may be done by a provision such as : If the Seller is in breach of this term the Buyer may reject the goods and terminate the contract [ making the term a condition ] or The Buyer will accept the goods even if they are delivered late and late delivery will not entitle the buyer to terminate the contract [ making the term a warranty ] or by using the words " condition " and " warranty " and then defining them in the contract : " condition " means a term of this contract any breach of which will entitle the party not in breach to ( i ) terminate the contract and ( ii ) claim damages for losses caused by breach of condition whether or not he terminates the contract . |
| 25 | Often I 've wondered what happened to him , whether or not he survived the war . |
| 26 | Whether or not he supervised the building is unknown , but in 1775 , when it was begun , the city of Bath must have provided the best builders and craftsmen in the country . |
| 27 | The defendant who has a belief in consent will be acquitted no matter how he came by this belief and whether or not he considered the possibility of non-consent . |
| 28 | Ideally , investors need complete information about the likely cash flow distribution , whether or not it encompasses the possibility of failure . |
| 29 | But their new life may be worse than their old as they struggle to repay the $15,000 or more they owe the smuggler . |
| 30 | That 's it because what you well you either hold on to the first five or six and then you lose the rest or sometimes you remember the beginning and the end and you lose the bit in the middle , ah . |