Example sentences of "or do they [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What about the cattle which our bird and animal loving army allows to graze on the latter , or do they not matter ? |
| 2 | If the teacher imposes all the discipline , then will the pupils learn to access their own will , or do they simply bide their time until they leave school ? |
| 3 | Are the competing views purely academic debates , or do they also reflect wider social interests ? |
| 4 | Is it a covered building or do they just meet outside ? |
| 5 | Has it ever been , in your memory , postponed or cancelled , or do they just carry on regardless ? |
| 6 | Or do they just make more noise ? |
| 7 | Or do they just move on , looking for fresh fields and pastures new to flood ? |
| 8 | Do they just say bad things , or do they just say good things ? |
| 9 | erm , and to use a word that would be used in other areas , retraining goes on , amongst the judiciary or do they just get to this pinnacle , and then hold it against all comers , until they choose to retire , I mean , in any other , er , job where you have a peculiar expertise , like that , you would be expected to update yourself , to keep up with the trends , you would be sent away to conferences , and retraining courses . |
| 10 | Surely they 've been for the last four years and they must or do they just keep it at eighty one then they go to ninety ? |
| 11 | What is , what is happening at the moment is although they ca n't afford the money for the full , for the full treatment they are making an allocation of money to improve matters round , round that area , which will be er , cos I , I told them that some of the pensioners were , w walking round by the bankment , it 's pouring of rain , which is perfectly true and that er the engineer should go round and see for himself and plus the fact how many of these people ever travel by bus , or do they always go by car , no , and also I brought up about bus shelters and all those sort of things , but any way , there will be some improvements for the bus station in the future . |
| 12 | Or do they merely invite us to count and compare our scars ? |
| 13 | Or do they now insist on taking over the Government ? ’ |
| 14 | If the present article can not answer every question raised by Carse , it will answer this one : ‘ did they [ at the Opéra ] or did they not beat time with a baton throughout the whole opera ? ’ ( p.311 ) . |
| 15 | did they , or did they just like , did they just look at the colour and the shape of it , and the style of it ? |
| 16 | And and was i how did you work it , was it like a certain amount of men per lorry or did they just come in convoy ? |
| 17 | Were the technicians indifferent to what they were recording or did they sometimes become aroused too , and if so , were there rules against them joining in ? |