Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] it [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or did it just look kind of … reddish ? |
| 2 | They disagree strongly about its consequences : was it a watershed in British industrial relations , as some Communist writers would have us believe , or did it barely change the course of TUC and trade union policy , as Gordon Phillips has argued ? |
| 3 | Or did they choose a kind of evening do you know ? or did it not matter ? |
| 4 | I mean , does it really bore them ( so that they do n't need it at all in their lives ) or does it secretly shock and dismay them , so that they have to pretend to be bored ? |
| 5 | Or does it not do it ? |
| 6 | Is it , therefore , a great finishing hole or does it simply feed off the pressure of the Masters ? |
| 7 | Or does it simply train them to become expert exercise-doers in the safety of the home or the classroom ? |
| 8 | Or does it simply increase women 's fear of crime ? |
| 9 | Is there any local investment in the project , or does it just involve you and the builders ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Did you learn to talk so nice in charm school , or does it just come naturally ? ’ |
| 11 | Or does it just indicate the different ways in which national political shifts are experienced locally ? |
| 12 | Is it just to do with production quality control or does it also embrace marketing , accounting and other functions ? |
| 13 | Or does it also stumble before this hurdle ? |
| 14 | ring a bell or does it actually pour out of a speaker what comes out of a speaker ? |
| 15 | Is it only a paper tiger , or does it really have teeth ? |
| 16 | But perhaps worst of all , it has been clearly demonstrated that while a change in attitudes to a brand or product can precede a purchase of that brand , it can equally well follow the purchase : does attitude change influence a purchase , or does it merely result from it ? — since people often feel the need to justify a purchase , especially a major purchase , after they have made it . |
| 17 | Does it really wish to dissolve itself into a European federation , as many of its intellectuals claim , or does it still have specifically Greek aims to pursue in the Balkans and the Middle East ? |
| 18 | At the time Mr. Winterbone signed this document it did not contain any disposition at all , nor did it even contain any appointment of executors . |
| 19 | The Santa Cruz Operation has reversed itself on what to name its SCO Forum ‘ Product of the Year ’ and has gone with Applix Inc after getting complaints that Clarity Inc , its first pick , was not delivering on the SCO platform nor did it even have such an animal in beta : SCO is kind of lax in its standards . |
| 20 | Coverage failed to highlight the wrongful arrests of blacks or excessive use of force by the police ; nor did it adequately convey the extent of pro-social activity engaged in by black ‘ counter-rioters ’ , such as helping the wounded or assisting the emergency services . |
| 21 | In cell culture conditions , however , in which exogenous EGF can readly be shown to down regulate its receptor and start hepatocyte DNA synthesis , TAGH showed no ability to down regulate the receptor , nor did it competitively inhibit EGF binding . |
| 22 | It was never put into words , nor did it entirely dampen their blistering exchanges . |
| 23 | Nor did it necessarily require the Great Powers to act as the guarantors of the regime established . |
| 24 | Pakistan 's start was not quite as grim as India 's at Headingley in 1952 , when the first four batsmen were out before a run had been registered , nor did it quite compare with Australia 's second innings at Brisbane in 1950 , when Bedser and Bailey send back the first three without a run on the board . |
| 25 | The evidence which exists is not comprehensive , nor does it adequately differentiate between different systems in terms of educational progress . |
| 26 | A survey based on a stratificational analysis is not appropriate or feasible for a sociolinguistic study carried out in Brazil ; the chief objections are that the notion of a continuum is neither congruent with the sharp distinction between rich and poor , nor does it adequately discriminate between the individuals studied , all of whom were relatively poor . |
| 27 | Nor does it immediately show us how this approach allots a special role to the economy , since the dominant contradiction of a society may be a feature of any practice at all , and may change with circumstances . |
| 28 | WHILE this approach undoubtedly has advantages in that effort is directed to areas where a known interest exists — TO my way of thinking it fails to stimulate growth sufficiently quickly to satisfy what I consider SHOULD be a market led approach , nor does it satisfactorily communicate our case to the potential customers . |
| 29 | That is to say , the variation is not necessarily patterned in one single linguistic dimension ( for example , it does not necessarily move in a single phonetic direction : it may diverge in two or more directions ) , nor does it necessarily display a unilinear or unidirectional pattern in terms of any independent ‘ social ’ variable : on the contrary , the patterns shown in relation to different social variables may conflict and interact in a variety of ways . |
| 30 | Nor does it necessarily follow that if polytechnics were somehow to promote part-time and sub-degree courses , that they would be taken up by large numbers of children of manual workers . |