Example sentences of "or [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 ? |