Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] it [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did the population remain more or less static after the dramatic decline in the second half of the fourteenth century , or did it make a rapid recovery from the first wave of epidemics ? |
| 2 | or did it mean a few more ‘ Hail Marys ’ |
| 3 | It is hard to judge how much weight should be given to such utterances ; was the designation ‘ northerner ’ intended to be purely geographical and descriptive , or did it reflect a feeling that these were men almost of a different race ? |
| 4 | ) Or did it reveal a conservative attitude at the heart of a movie that is dressed up in hippie garb ? |
| 5 | Was it purely physical or did it have a psychosomatic dimension , as her sudden and dramatic recovery could indicate ? |
| 6 | Or does it generate a file ? |
| 7 | Is it music for his imagined funeral , or does it remind the singer that although unhappy , he is in love ? |
| 8 | Does that mean no more without development in the deposited greenbelt , as in the greenbelt as defined in the deposited greenbelt local plan , or does it mean no more unless it is hard up against that greenbelt ? |
| 9 | Does ‘ the constitution ’ mean the make-up of the committee or does it mean the constitutionality of the committee ? |
| 10 | Does the phrase ‘ I Do Hereby exoner , acquit and simpliciter Discharge ’ mean any more than ‘ I Do Hereby Discharge ’ or even ‘ I Discharge ’ , or does it leave the layman wondering if the words contain some qualification to or extension of an absolute discharge , slipped in by a crafty lawyer to defeat the ends of justice ? |
| 11 | Or does it re-create a folk tale such as the Fokine-Stravinsky The Firebird or a national epic such as Bintley 's The Swan of Tuoneia ? |
| 12 | Or does it represent a model , a paradigm which , when the peculiarities of Russia 's development are stripped away , reveals the direction towards which capitalism inevitably leads ? |
| 13 | ‘ Is your question one of personal curiosity , or does it represent an official line of enquiry ? ’ countered Toby , crossing his skeletal ankles . |
| 14 | Does this mean that McDonald 's does n't achieve higher margins , or does it reflect an even larger degree of undervaluation of these currencies , or other factors ? |
| 15 | Ask the manufacturer which company is supplying the maintenance — is it provided by the manufacturer itself , or does it have a third party maintenance contract ? |
| 16 | Does dismissal of God 's existence make for greater openness and enquiry , or does it have the effect of closing the door on trying to understand what is strange or threatening to itself which might be , for example , the claims of other religions ? |
| 17 | Does it lead to — even require — greater openness , or does it close the mind up ? |
| 18 | Nor did it prevent the preservation of this category in the language of special education many years after its legal obliteration , in the acronym MLD ( moderate learning difficulties ) , used in many of the same contexts for many of the same purposes , but without , as yet , the abusive tone that came to be associated with its predecessor . |
| 19 | The new Fowler operation had certainly made use of the sales information , but this did not involve any breach of contract by Mr Fowler and the other former employees , nor did it show an actionable conspiracy . |
| 20 | Nor did it want the more advanced economic state of the West Bank , which was itself backward compared with the coastal areas of Palestine , to continue . |
| 21 | Nor did it want the return of a population that would dissent from the Zionist identity of the state and threaten it demographically . |
| 22 | The debate had no practical importance , nor did it influence the direction and methods of further research . |
| 23 | This did not stop them from associating together nor did it stop the spread of a vague common ideology . |
| 24 | Nor did it remove the old ones . |
| 25 | Nor did it remove the niggling suspicion that Isabel was hiding something . |
| 26 | Nor did it provide the detailed information on local labour markets , particularly at the occupational level , that would have been necessary to make a fuller judgement . |
| 27 | Nor did it escape the notice of other critics of the Association that a handbill , lengthily entitled " A Dialogue between Tom and Harry on the Duties of Seamen and the Just and Equitable Rewards for their Services " , was in practice nothing more or less than a statement of union policy on bargaining with shipowners and published in this form only to avoid the appearance that the Standard was more than an innocent friendly society . |
| 28 | Nor did it impress the Arab states , which pointed out that if Israel was able to absorb hundreds of thousands of Jews it could certainly absorb more than 100,000 Palestinian returnees ; or the United States , which did not think the Israeli offer ‘ provide[d] a suitable basis for contributing to solution of Arab refugee question . ’ |
| 29 | Nor did it support the ‘ geographic fiction ’ that evidence to be produced in the United States was not ‘ abroad ’ even though it was in fact located in a foreign country or must be gathered or otherwise prepared abroad . |
| 30 | Nor did it have a consistent history in the sixteenth century . |