Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] it [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fitzpatrick has been involved in one way or another with this text-copying enterprise since the 1970s and you can see it for yourself or read it this month until the 31st at Salander O'Reilly . |
| 2 | Or to put it another way : on the representational theory of mind , all learning is the testing of hypotheses which are already represented in the mind in some form ( for instance as sentences ) . |
| 3 | Or to put it another way , it 's like a Birmingham City player when … |
| 4 | He put it as follows : ‘ Marxism is essentially atheistic , or to put it another way : it is atheism which provides the radical aspect of the Marxist philosophy of life . |
| 5 | Or to put it another way , let us see how badly Miss Honey has taught you the three-times table . ’ |
| 6 | Doctors are expected to assess medical needs ; nurses are themselves expert at assessing nursing need , or to put it another way , at assessing the need for nursing aspects of care . |
| 7 | The theme of mutual advantage rather than a sense of duty in financial relationships between kin again emerges from this example ; or to put it another way , it suggests that historically in Britain financial relationships between adult kin have been regarded typically as two-way exchange rather than one-way support . |
| 8 | Or to put it another way , he maintained that Marxism can only constitute its totality through its perpetual detours from itself . |
| 9 | Or to put it another way : is there an ‘ East German history of art ’ which is fundamentally different from our own ? |
| 10 | Or to put it another way : would you swap Albert Reynolds for a used Charlie Haughey ? |
| 11 | Or to put it another way , the analysis lacks both a sense of humanism and a theory of ideology . |
| 12 | In fact even if one succeeds in dissociating oneself from some of the more romantic claims that are made on its behalf it 's easy to get the discouraging impression that communication without words is after all a residual topic and that once orthodox language has been subtracted all that is left is a rubbish heap of nudges , shrugs , pouts , sighs , winks and glances — or to put it another way that non-verbal communication is simply the behavioural exhaust thrown out of the rear end of an extremely high-tech linguistic machine . |
| 13 | ‘ What the rule of compulsion seems to require is that there is no practical choice but to pay in the circumstances , or to put it another way , before a payment will be regarded as involuntary there must be some natural or threatened exercise of power possessed by the party receiving it over the person or property of the taxpayer for which he has no immediate relief than to make the payment … |
| 14 | Why was this allowed to happen ; or to put it another way , why were issues of distribution within society put into second place ? |
| 15 | Or to put it another way , an extra 6MB free on a 40MB disk . |
| 16 | Or to put it another way : a nude ( bar the dog-collar ) clergyman , a semi-undressed nun and a loud , blowsy tart fighting a losing battle to stay inside a Marks & spencer blouse at least two sizes too small . |
| 17 | This may be true , or to put it another way , this may be trew . |
| 18 | Free Lecture/Dem and Come & Try It Open Class — EVERYONE WELCOME . |
| 19 | The fact that other parties respond at just these code switch points suggests that they represent the boundaries of salient categories within the talk — or putting it another way , that they represent the participants ' perceptions of the relevant sections of talk which require or permit a response — even where these boundaries do not correspond with any syntactic boundary . |
| 20 | There is none of that apparently aimless wandering in short stretches , punctuated by frequent bends , going halfway round the compass to reach the next hamlet or village , which characterises the byroads in country that has never been in open field or left it several centuries ago . |
| 21 | Ideally , breakfast on half your daily portion of Fibre-Filler or have it mid morning if you dislike eating early in the day . |
| 22 | They 've been revolting for years under the surface and then some thing happens that make it possible course the continued revolutions have gone on through the world and because they 've seen the success of a revolution in Russia although we did n't know the full facts of it in the West , it was , it did establish a huge area in the wake of a revolution . |
| 23 | Anything could have sparked the riots , it just happened to be the injustice of Rodney King 's trial that triggered it this time . |
| 24 | And it would have remained little more than a name but for the immense political danger that threatened it 21 years ago . |
| 25 | They tend to throw the ball rather than kicking it 60 yards up the park . ’ |
| 26 | It is not only the environment but also the animals and plants that inhabit it that display rhythms . |
| 27 | When the spirit parted from the body it found no one asking anything of it nor giving it any directions . ) |
| 28 | And if this chap said , the one that took it that night , he said there is no point in him doing it because he did n't have the coaches insured for enough . |
| 29 | Software engineering outfit Dazix is now Intergraph Electronics after the company that bought it two years ago . |
| 30 | It was what was within the bird the force that gave it such power , such vitality . ’ |