Example sentences of "[conj] [conj] [noun] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must be stated at this point that it is not intended here to suggest that there is a conspiracy on the part of doctors to deprive patients of their rights , or that doctors act out of ill will . |
| 2 | My own observations leave me in no doubt that either there are very few sand-eels left in inshore waters ( and therefore accessible to feeding sea-birds ) or that sand-eels have dramatically changed their habits . |
| 3 | Nobody could think where until Scott-Scobie said cheerily : ‘ Buy'em all over , gun shops and so on . |
| 4 | To this end she stays a virgin , or practises abstinence , or contraception , or if things get further in spite of her best endeavours — for both men and her own desires are importunate — terminates . |
| 5 | If monarchs abuse liberty , or if revolutions succeed only in replacing one unreasonable sovereign by another , then critics such as Gillray , Junius or even Burke might have been drawn to the republican camp . |
| 6 | If you pray for liberty then you may get relief just because you pray , or because things happen anyhow which bring you liberty . |
| 7 | The issue here is conceptually the same as the one which we considered in the previous chapter ( section 6.4 ) , when we discussed whether the identification of spoken words begins after only part of a word has been heard , or whether identification begins only when the whole word has been heard . |
| 8 | The answer to our question — of how much luck we are allowed to postulate — depends upon whether our planet is the only one that has life , or whether life abounds all around the universe . |
| 9 | In the end , whether applicants have their experiential learning counted in the admissions process , or whether students go on expanding the degree of influence they exercise over the curriculum , will be up to them . |
| 10 | Whether , of course , the association between education and earnings is due to the improved productivity of individuals or whether education acts simply as a form of credentialism , is an important debate but beyond the scope of this chapter . |
| 11 | Whether the boy understood what father said , or whether Ramsey did so , is more doubtful . |
| 12 | It is not clear whether some schools did not have the instruments available as requested or whether pupils decided not to use them . |
| 13 | But for many more the importance of relatives — especially of grandmothers — lies in their availability as people who can be called upon in a crisis , or as people to fall back on when other arrangements break down . |
| 14 | Fleece garments vary in weight and thickness — the lighter versions are usually better suited to more active roles , while the heavier ones come into their own during very cold conditions , or as evening wear around camp . |
| 15 | That day when she was eight she had disappeared , or as Rachel tried patiently to call it , wandered off . |
| 16 | A great crater had been formed , most of it below sea level , and soundings showed that where land had once stood 300 metres above sea level , the water was now 300 metres deep . |
| 17 | Although clearance under s138 is advisable , it is not essential to the operation of s135 , though some tax inspectors seem to assume that where clearance has not been obtained the anti-avoidance provision in s137 will automatically apply to deny capital gains tax deferral . |
| 18 | Note that where voices occur simultaneously strict ordering downwards has been used . |
| 19 | Secondly , that where information becomes publicly available through the actions of the plaintiff the courts will more readily find that the information no longer has the requisite quality of confidence than where publication is by a third party . |
| 20 | Rosemary later confessed to Leith that seeing Travis looking so haggard had really got to her . |
| 21 | Except that Ministers do n't normally look as if they had n't slept all night . |
| 22 | You 'd have thought they were best friends or something , except that girls do n't have proper friends the way boys do . |
| 23 | ‘ We 'd done the Exhilarator course in the evening but we had n't found anything — except that Cawthorne does n't like women much , and blacks not at all . ’ |
| 24 | Sarah 's skin might be thirty ( except that Catriona had never tried to judge the age of anyone 's skin before ) . |
| 25 | ( v ) Third reading This is similar to the second reading , except that details have now been settled in committee and on report and the House is concerned again with the question of the whole Bill as now amended . |
| 26 | It was far out of the reach of grown-ups as well as children , except that Jasper did not really think anything was out of his reach . |
| 27 | I would spend more time in Aunt Emily 's except that Dora does n't like it . |
| 28 | The leader of the more radical Khalqi faction in the PDPA , Hafizullah Amin , declared that although Afghanistan had virtually no proletariat , its vanguard party , the PDPA , was a proletarian party because of its internationalist connnections . |
| 29 | The European Court held that although Belgium had not legislated to give effect to Article 119 , Ms Defrenne was entitled to pay equal to that of male cabin stewards . |
| 30 | Spencer 's argument was that although societies become more differentiated and heterogeneous this tends , not to chaos , but new forms of equilibrium . |