Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [pron] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BUT , no matter how quickly or slowly you absorb alcohol , it does n't take long before all the alcohol you 've drunk is absorbed . |
| 2 | Archosaurs , the forerunners of dinosaurs , also probably lost heat through their surface skin , or perhaps they had air sacs beneath the skin to effect further cooling , and which also may have made them lighter on their feet . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Or perhaps you have friends in my bank , eh ? ’ |
| 5 | Or perhaps he had reason to be content , since Franca had been , perhaps visibly , moved , or startled by his sudden gesture of kissing her hand , something which she could not remember his ever having done before . |
| 6 | Perhaps he has forgotten that his lord ought to be murdering his lady just at this juncture ; or perhaps he thinks Emilia is as corrupt as himself ; or perhaps he does not understand love , The error is great , since Emilia is the only person who knows the truth about the handkerchief . |
| 7 | Or perhaps she had sense to realise that in an entrenched battle she was likely to come off the worst . |
| 8 | For half an hour or so she had Barbara Paulus , ranked 21st to Durie 's 102nd , chasing shadows as she won the first set 6-2 . |
| 9 | He 's you see , bu but after about twenty minutes or so he loses touch with what 's what you 're actually doing and if , if you catch him just right he goes berserk ! |
| 10 | Richard was born in 1862 in Thwaite and when he was twenty years old or so he left Swaledale to work for a London publishing firm . |
| 11 | Well over two million of that diaspora regard themselves as victims of the 1948 war ; the half million or so who fled Palestine in 1948 have had children — in many cases grandchildren — who regard themselves as Palestinians . |
| 12 | But our interviewers spoke to families from all walks of life and found class had no bearing on whether or not they had access to books . ’ |
| 13 | When cleaning up faeces , urine or vomit , whether or not they contain blood , all open wounds or cuts should be covered with waterproof plasters and you should wear disposable gloves . |
| 14 | Investors do not always sell their shares for exogenous reasons irrespective of whether or not they perceive insiders to be operating in the market . |
| 15 | Whether or not they support Saddam Hussein 's call for a holy war , there is a feeling that Islam should be solid for Iraq . |
| 16 | That is , unacceptable as representations , whether or not they have effects on sexually violent behaviour . |
| 17 | Yet they would be a much better way of spending money than the present married man 's tax allowance which reduces income tax for all married men , rich or poor , whether or not they have dependants in their households . |
| 18 | Unfortunately , most patients exhibit abnormally rapid gastric emptying of liquids after truncal vagotomy or partial gastrectomy irrespective of whether or not they have symptoms , and there is considerable overlap of results between symptomatic and asymptomatic groups . |
| 19 | Again , there is the fact that a variety of signs which , whether or not they suggest weapons , huts or traps or remain enigmatic , can only be interpreted as symbolic in intent . |
| 20 | PA ( a management consultancy ) asked 145 companies taking part in its 1985 ‘ Annual Fringe Benefits Report ’ to say whether or not they provided assistance when senior executives had to move house to take up a new post . |
| 21 | Our facial expressions , our hand gestures , the way we hold our arms and body , and whether or not we make eye contact — all of these give out messages , sometimes to supplement our voices and sometimes instead of them . |
| 22 | Pavlov insisted that the major difference between the plans was that an integral part of Yavlinsky 's " grand bargain " was Western economic assistance , whereas , he said , " we shall implement the programme , reflected in the Yavlinsky variant , whether or not we receive aid from the West " . |
| 23 | Whether or not we accept Eliot 's note that the title of ‘ The Hollow Men ’ draws on both Kipling 's ‘ The Broken Men ’ and Morris 's ‘ The Hollow Land ’ , there is little doubt that this ‘ valley of dying stars ’ is not so far from the landscapes of Victorian romanticism . |
| 24 | Erm I 'll talk about one of the later models , which was Gibson 's , E Gibson as opposed to J J , which again was concerned with letters and whether or not we construct letters by recognising features from them . |
| 25 | Following the much trumpeted loss of her maidenhood , she is said to have undergone a test to determine whether or not she has AIDS , an ailment prevalent in that part of the world . |
| 26 | What 's really important is whether or not someone loves God ’ ( my version of Proverbs 31:30 ) . |
| 27 | Unfortunately minor works grants are only ‘ discretionary ’ , ie it is up to the council whether or not you receive help . |
| 28 | Whether or not you have children of your own , I know you will feel the same way . |
| 29 | Many exercises on pages 190 to 193 are useful whether or not you have hearing loss . |
| 30 | — the range of equipment you have , particularly whether or not you have editing facilities ; |