Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] it [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or rather it contributes by setting the question in a certain way . |
| 2 | ( This is a borderline case between normal and deviant justification , or rather it points to one of the many ambiguities in my formulation of the normal justification thesis . ) |
| 3 | It is related to the hedgehog , or rather it belongs to the same family of insectivores . |
| 4 | It is simply a rule of the language , or rather it follows from its basic rules , that one speaks misleadingly if one utters or assents to that statement without having that belief . |
| 5 | For the first time the Bill gives galleries powers of disposal , subject to certain conditions — or rather it gives such powers to the Tate and the national portrait gallery , but not to the Wallace collection or the national gallery . |
| 6 | You ca n't really ask the government to do something about the logging when it 's owned by themselves , I mean , or rather it 's controlled by the powers of the country and the only way to do something there is to boycott their timber , not to pressure the government , and we 're back to , you know , back to square one . |
| 7 | Clearly Littlewoods , the pools group and retailer , does not believe in either solution — or perhaps it does not really want to sell . |
| 8 | Or perhaps it does . |
| 9 | Or perhaps it proves that women tend to try to be attractive to upstage one another and they completely forget that men are going to find them attractive too . ’ |
| 10 | Or perhaps it 's been moved . |
| 11 | After the robot has accumulated several observations ( I , J ) in R , the joint motors are switched off and the software chooses new joint angles J' at random , or perhaps it chooses J' in a poorly explored region . |
| 12 | I wish to be at home with you indeed , indeed-my Joy is only in the bud here I am like that Tree , which fronts me — The Sun shines bright & warm , as if it were summer — but it is not summer & so it shines on leafless boughs . |
| 13 | For the first year or so it turns you into a kind of psychopathic animal and then suddenly , like a butterfly emerging from the pupa , you sprout wings , your heart opens , you become … charming . |
| 14 | They are to serve as long as the war lasts , and a month on top of that , they are to serve in Scotland only ’ — someone cheered — ‘ or so it says , and you can ask Widow McCulloch , or Widow McGregor , if they have heard that anywhere before . |
| 15 | or so it says here , so I say . |
| 16 | Your party , your other , never mind , and when that happens you get poaching and I 've always said , if you treat your membership properly they 'll stay with you , but you 've also got to remember that the union is in dire financial straits , or so it tells us . |
| 17 | Or so it appears from the valuable memoirs of Mrs Belloc Lowndes , in chapter nine of her Merry Wives of Westminster : |
| 18 | Or so it claims . |
| 19 | Even when as in the Act 2 aria for Medea 's servant , Neris , he attempts a flowing canzonetta and decks it with a distinctive bassoon obligato , he lets the number go on far too long , or so it seems when as here the bassoon roars out in determined competition with the mezzo , Claire Powell . |
| 20 | Even when as in the Act 2 aria for Medea 's servant , Neris , he attempts a flowing canzonetta and decks it with a distinctive bassoon obligato , he lets the number go on far too long , or so it seems when as here the bassoon roars out in determined competition with the mezzo , Claire Powell . |
| 21 | See how , sometimes , the largest fish will hover at the tail-end of the shoal , while his tasters — or so it seems — accept almost every likely-looking morsel , only to leave some morsels alone as though there was something special about them , and fit only for the King . |
| 22 | Scientists have rather a bad press in these lists , as well as tending to drag down the market value of their places of study , or so it seems to the editors . |
| 23 | Then , nine months of gestation later , an opportunity crops up out of the blue , or so it seems . |
| 24 | With legs stretched out and with no space to flex a muscle — or so it seems to the beginner — a sneeze might unbalance the boat . |
| 25 | And he won , or so it seems , benign neutrality from the PDS and the Northern League by promising to stake his government 's survival on the swift approval of electoral reform . |
| 26 | Ultimately one admires its naturalness , its ability simply to relay the balance and range that Rattle has fashioned from the podium ( or so it seems ) , but it takes a little while . |
| 27 | A more effective argument , on the other hand , can ( or so it seems ) be constructed in support of the materialist theory . |
| 28 | Within those five years desktop publishing has , or so it seems , become an integrated part of the electronic office . |
| 29 | Trudging from one grey day into another , on and on , until at last it does n't matter any more , or so it seems . |
| 30 | Johnson considered as many aspects of life here as he could possibly think of , or so it seems : and Boswell recorded Johnson with similar energy . |