Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] is [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The way in which ritual develops — or rather is developed — and the characteristics which it assumes , reflect the ordering and preoccupations peculiar to a society . |
| 2 | more or , is more or less is realized in a dream she has , just before she leaves Thornfield Hall , erm in which she dreams she 's lying in the red room again |
| 3 | What is disturbing , apart from the underlying assumptions that this kind of assessment for streaming are based upon , and the pressure for all departments to conform to a normative style of assessment , is that in the end the decisions over which pupils should be moved up or down is based upon a very limited range of subjects which do not include art or music . |
| 4 | And so the last page or so is given over to French names : Corbière and Jammes and De Regnier ; Tailhade and Romains ; Vildrac , Spire and Arcos — poets who at the present day have few readers even among the French . |
| 5 | AN OUTSIDER revisiting one of Britain 's great provincial cities — Manchester , Glasgow , Liverpool , Birmingham , or Leeds — after a gap of a quarter-century or so is set for a shock . |
| 6 | Of this , 250 or so is taken up with lighting , leaving a little over 3,000 watts for water heating . |
| 7 | GCSE or GCE ‘ O ’ level English language at grade ‘ C ’ or above is regarded as ‘ Evidence of competence in written and spoken English ’ . |
| 8 | GCSE or GCE ‘ O ’ level Mathematics at grade ‘ C ’ or above is regarded as ‘ Evidence of the required level of numeracy ’ . |
| 9 | Normally a GCE ‘ O ’ level or GCSE pass in Mathematics at grade C or above is required . |
| 10 | Normally a GCE ‘ O ’ level or GCSE pass in Mathematics at grade C or above is required . |
| 11 | Normally a GCE ‘ O ’ level or GCSE pass in Mathematics at grade C or above is required . |
| 12 | Normally a GCE ‘ O ’ level or GCSE pass in Mathematics at grade C or above is required . |
| 13 | Normally a GCE ‘ O ’ level or GCSE pass in Mathematics at grade C or above is required . |
| 14 | Normally a GCE ‘ O ’ level or GCSE pass in Mathematics at grade C or above is required . |
| 15 | Normally a GCE ‘ O ’ level or GCSE pass in Mathematics at grade C or above is required . |
| 16 | Normally a GCE ‘ O ’ level or GCSE pass in Mathematics at grade C or above is required ; also French , or German or Spanish at ‘ A ’ or AS level ( or equivalent ) . |
| 17 | Normally a GCE ‘ O ’ level or GCSE pass in Mathematics at grade C or above is required . |
| 18 | Normally a GCE ‘ O ’ level or GCSE pass in Mathematics at grade C or above is required . |
| 19 | Normally a GCE ‘ O ’ level or GCSE pass in Mathematics at grade C or above is required . |
| 20 | In addition , where an odour arises from a works on which many people rely for employment the decision whether to complain or not is influenced by the realisation that should a local authority press their employer to take costly steps to abate the odour , it could result in closure of the works with consequent loss of employment . |
| 21 | Whether he becomes King or not is looking more and more like an academic question . |
| 22 | The decision tree to go through to decide whether the Information memorandum is an investment advertisement or not is set out in detail in Appendix 3 to this section and should be followed in all cases . |
| 23 | So this kind of erm interest in children and in whether a couple are able to have children or not is has obviously been lying at the back of his mind has n't he ? |
| 24 | Both are in accord in suggesting that the way to decide whether a disposition is a trust or not is to look at the words it employs . |
| 25 | In many societies occupational status has been or still is transmitted from father to son and from mother to daughter . |
| 26 | In the iterative mode there is an imbalance whereby an event occurring only once is narrated several times or , much more frequently in literature , an event occurring frequently or repeatedly is narrated only once . |
| 27 | Even the one who has betrayed the light sooner or later is forced to come back to the centre of stability , where he is raised once more into the understanding of clarity and purity of thought and action . |
| 28 | Rolle suggests that this is begun in thought of the four last things : death , for " we lyve bot in a poynt " in " uncertente of owre endyng " ; judgement , when we account for our use of time " and ilk tyme we thynk not on God , we may cownt it als we have tynt " ( 4.95.19 – 22 , 38 – 9 ) ; heaven , the joy which is " mare any may tell " ; and hell , where also is burning in fire ( 4.96.46 – 7 , 54 ) . |
| 29 | Another possibility that I have experimented with once or twice is creating a monogram in flowers . |
| 30 | However , the formula is not usable in a practical situation unless the end is either supported by a principle or further end , or else is anticipated as enjoyable in itself . |