Example sentences of "[coord] [vb -s] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is that all — or has she set some other task for you as well ? ’ he demanded aggressively . |
| 2 | ‘ Or has he become possessive now he 's come of age ? ’ |
| 3 | Or has he taken this statement from a book or article written by someone else ? |
| 4 | However , some consumers , and these will be the poorer ones , will be worse off under the two-part tariff regime because they consume fewer than x units under average cost pricing , so charging a lump sum fee unc makes them pay a higher effective price for their units or forces them to consume fewer or even to drop out entirely . |
| 5 | Or does she talk different because she 's on the phone ? |
| 6 | Is this couple 's problem simply different expectations regarding the frequency of sexual relations or does it go deeper ? |
| 7 | Allowing the child to muck about , or does it mean free to express himself in his own childlike way , and not ape the adult 's way . |
| 8 | What does this really mean , and is the current fashion for quality merely rhetorical gloss or does it have more substance ? |
| 9 | Ken was in one of his usual moods trying to get his mental computer working — does he ignore them brusquely or does he make one of his faces and willingly sign an autograph ? |
| 10 | Or does he believe that is a route is put through there then that would increase development pressures in that sector of the district and the greenbelt notation would then run the risk of having to be reviewed . |
| 11 | Teacher : Does that mean he shows people he 's clever , or does he keep quiet about it ? |
| 12 | The whole thing about a talk show is that you have to ask the questions that people are interested in — not in a way that puts the guest on the spot or makes them feel awkward — we 're not out to ‘ get ’ anyone , that 's not the idea of it at all — but certain things must be asked . |
| 13 | The treaty of Brest-Litovsk , which the military superiority of Germany forced upon the young Soviet State at the end of the year , revealed the limits of its power : ‘ The past keeps fast hold of us , ’ Lenin observed gloomily at the 8th Party Congress , ‘ grasps us with a thousand tentacles , and does not allow us to take a single forward step , or compels us to take these steps badly . ’ |
| 14 | Nor has she slit any throats , gouged out any eyes or cut off any fingers or genitals , which is what is routinely done , pour encourager les autres , to opponents of the huge Guatemalan army . |
| 15 | Nor has he condemned right-wing extremism without condemning the rarer left-wing sort in the same breath . |
| 16 | Nor has he provided any evidence to support his belief that cholera is spread in drinking water . |
| 17 | Even with this kind of evidence , even with that kind of evidence , almost uniquely good evidence in my experience , the Council leadership , which is in , has been in possession of it for the best part of a month has made no move to suspend any Chief Officer on charges of gross misconduct , which of course if it had been any of our members accused of something like that , they 'd have been down the road instantly , nor has it reinstated any worker wrongly sacked . |
| 18 | Nor has it drawn large crowds , apart from the 105,000 visitors who attended the inaugural exhibition featuring the work of Dubuffet 's latter years . |
| 19 | Nor does he consider that animal behaviour might provide us with prototypes of human understanding on the basis of which we might consider something akin to different language-games , reflecting both the similarities and the differences implicit in the respective cases . |
| 20 | The liquidator says that he can not say how much of the stock was supplied by our client , nor does he have any information as to whether or not the amount received from debtors includes any amount for the sale of AB stock originally supplied by our client . |
| 21 | His status , and salary , will be higher than that of a lowly assistant solicitor , but he makes no capital contributions to the firm nor does he have any right to a share in profits . |
| 22 | GEORGE Tyson is not a gambling man nor does he take unnecessary risks . |
| 23 | Nor does it mean that failure to achieve total abstinence from all potentially mood-altering substances and behaviours means that one can not achieve a considerable measure of recovery . |
| 24 | The word ‘ modern ’ used in Hindi or Punjabi does not have its English meaning , nor does it mean liberated or even progressive . |
| 25 | Nor does it carry much information about the clouds to Earth because the clouds fail to impress on this radiation many meaningful signatures . |
| 26 | Language in poetry does not point to an object beyond itself , nor does it carry any emotional weight from its speaker ; it is entirely self-sufficient , or , as the Formalists would say , ‘ self-valuable ’ . |
| 27 | Nor does it protect that ideal in the further ways I described , by identifying as special those cases in which there is no explicit past decision to follow . |
| 28 | MAS 's role in advising on or assisting in the preparation of a client 's Information memorandum does not involve the issuance of a published report nor does it involve any association with the client 's Information memorandum beyond that set out in the terms of engagement , which should be appropriately limited . |
| 29 | Medical evidence shows using DSE is not associated with damage to eyes and eyesight nor does it make existing defects worse . |
| 30 | Nor does it make much sense for the book to be on offer soon afterwards through a paperback book club that screams at it potential customers , ‘ You write the rules ’ . |