Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] it [vb infin] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did the population remain more or less static after the dramatic decline in the second half of the fourteenth century , or did it make a rapid recovery from the first wave of epidemics ? |
| 2 | or did it mean a few more ‘ Hail Marys ’ |
| 3 | ) Or did it reveal a conservative attitude at the heart of a movie that is dressed up in hippie garb ? |
| 4 | Was it purely physical or did it have a psychosomatic dimension , as her sudden and dramatic recovery could indicate ? |
| 5 | Does that mean no more without development in the deposited greenbelt , as in the greenbelt as defined in the deposited greenbelt local plan , or does it mean no more unless it is hard up against that greenbelt ? |
| 6 | ‘ Is your question one of personal curiosity , or does it represent an official line of enquiry ? ’ countered Toby , crossing his skeletal ankles . |
| 7 | Ask the manufacturer which company is supplying the maintenance — is it provided by the manufacturer itself , or does it have a third party maintenance contract ? |
| 8 | The new Fowler operation had certainly made use of the sales information , but this did not involve any breach of contract by Mr Fowler and the other former employees , nor did it show an actionable conspiracy . |
| 9 | Nor did it remove the old ones . |
| 10 | Nor did it remove the niggling suspicion that Isabel was hiding something . |
| 11 | Nor did it provide the detailed information on local labour markets , particularly at the occupational level , that would have been necessary to make a fuller judgement . |
| 12 | Nor did it impress the Arab states , which pointed out that if Israel was able to absorb hundreds of thousands of Jews it could certainly absorb more than 100,000 Palestinian returnees ; or the United States , which did not think the Israeli offer ‘ provide[d] a suitable basis for contributing to solution of Arab refugee question . ’ |
| 13 | Nor did it have a consistent history in the sixteenth century . |
| 14 | The conquest of Egypt and Cyrenaica as far west as Euesperides ( not far from Benghazi ) by the Persian Kambyses did not entail the overthrow of the Battiads , nor did it interrupt the cultural traffic of Dorian Cyrene with Ionian Attica . |
| 15 | Nor does it want the German tail to wag the European dog . |
| 16 | Nor does it contemplate the knock-on consequences for Labour ministers of attempting to implement their programme while rebuilding the governmental machine . |
| 17 | Nor does it accommodate the traditional costumes or a tired , very conventional acting style . |
| 18 | This does not imply an absence of norms , nor does it incorporate an implicit racism : rather , polygamy and divorce are the norms , leading to a wide range of local , unstable types . |
| 19 | Nor does it entail a straightforward shrinking to the nuclear family unit as a consequence of industrialization . |
| 20 | Nor does it have a dorsal fin on its back . |
| 21 | and Aconite , nor does it have the general disturbance ; the aching limbs , the general soreness , the fever and thirst . |
| 22 | I can evoke the wind at will and make it rustle the stiff papery blades of the bamboos and sing , through the comb-like leaves of the yew , as a worthy accompaniment to the voice that on that day and on all other days , even to the final silence , spoke words that had always the same meaning . |
| 23 | and then you had to go and let it get a new engine ! |
| 24 | And did it make a big difference ? |
| 25 | It 's what you 've written a a complete idea in itself , and does it have a main verb . |
| 26 | The rhythmic movement of volumes and planes in space is so basic in Cézanne 's design that it usually extends to the treatment of the background — whether that be sky , wall or drapery — and makes it serve the dual purpose of a screenlike area or space boundary and of a rhythmic sequence of semivoluminous planes which continue the movement of the units in the middleground and foreground ; this sequential ordering thus contributes to compositional unity in the widest sense as well as to the expressive movement of the total form . |
| 27 | But does it have a biblical basis ? |
| 28 | But does it have a serious , scientific sort of purpose ? |