Example sentences of "[coord] [vb base] they [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh I can imagine it being a bit strained off and on with er two lots of parents or do they know each other well and everything ? |
| 2 | Do they look viable , or do they occupy run-down property ? |
| 3 | Are their emotions in fact dictated by the current situation , or do they display emotional reactions which are more persistent and more complex than they can articulate in words ? |
| 4 | Do students learn passively , by taking notes in a 50-minute lecture , or do they have more control over their own learning ? |
| 5 | Comments such as ‘ a history of childhood abuse is both hip and horrible , the rock'n'roll statement with knobs on ’ do not encourage other men to discuss the issue , nor do they treat this subject with the seriousness it deserves . |
| 6 | But these private fictions are rarely of much significance , nor do they affect most people — despite much American talk of ‘ roots ’ . |
| 7 | They do not purport to explain fully why peripheral areas are in the condition in which they find themselves , nor do they regard one dimension ( in this case , the political ) as offering the complete explanation . |
| 8 | They are not places for quiet reflection , they are not clubrooms in which plots and schemes can be laid nor do they have useful collections of books , journals and other aids to professional thinking . |
| 9 | The garbage pickers are not employed by Cartón de Colombia or the warehouses , nor do they have any sort of contract with them . |
| 10 | Whether there is any social morality or justice in such a system is not a matter which the detectives are given to question ; nor do they spend much time in reflecting on why some dubious property acquisition is outside their terms of reference , or what the relationship is of such practices to the maintenance of position and power . |
| 11 | Nor do they take proper account of the risks banks run on their foreign-exchange and interest-rate positions . |
| 12 | While the Chewong are fully aware of the physiological differences between the sexes , these are not valued relative to each other , nor do they constitute any base for symbolic ordering ( see Howell 1983 , 1988 for further discussion on Chewong gender ) . |
| 13 | Nor do they include old favourites like industrial subsidies and incomes policies . |
| 14 | This is reinforced by Handy 's view that schools have a multiplicity of purposes and these are not discriminated between or prioritised , nor do they include any reference to the management of adults . |
| 15 | Nor do they share any body of feminist dogma . |
| 16 | They receive no overtime pay , nor do they get any holiday money or sickness benefit . |
| 17 | In general , women have not benefited much in the job market from capitalist industrialisation nor have they gained much influence in society outside the family through political channels . |
| 18 | Marje says : ‘ I think I 'm not so different from my readers , who write and say they have brutal husbands , and how they are beaten night after night by drunken swine who abuse them in every way and yet they still go on living with them . |
| 19 | Water houseplants regularly and ensure they receive enough humidity |
| 20 | And do they contradict each other ? |