Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 So , if some italian club comes in for Macca at say 4M ( a definate possibility ) , and/or someone come in for Speed at say 3.5M , well have no fucking team left .
2 So , if some italian club comes in for Macca at say 4M ( a definate possibility ) , and/or someone come in for Speed at say 3.5M , well have no fucking team left .
3 But the next day , afore I 'd gotten fettled up — for indeed , miss , I 'd no heart to sweeping an' fettling , an' washing pots ; so I sat me down i' th' muck — who should come in but Maister Weston !
4 Aye that was started afore I mind much about it .
5 It was stopped a while afore I mind .
6 You 're a wonderful s you 're a wonderful speaker but wait til I 've finished .
7 oh hang on a minute , wait til I 've finished please
8 I pledge to recycle as much waste as possible at home and/or I pledge to help organise recycling at work or at school/college .
9 If it was a ramshackle building where no-one wanted to live , fair enough , but that is not the case . ’
10 The night porter used a passkey for those rooms that were empty or where no-one answered .
11 Dey hav fe get it right or dey get verbal reaction .
12 It was an appealing idea because it at least seemed to offer some sort of progression to the work at a time when there was little or nothing written about coherent development in drama .
13 A recent report from the EOC found that ‘ overall the Youth Training Programme does little or nothing to widen girls ’ horizons or to provide ways out of the low-paid and dead-end jobs which are a feature of many women 's lives in Northern Ireland today ’ .
14 I du n no if they got nests or nothing to go to at night , but sat there under that bush all huddled up , they look froze to death .
15 Just time for a card — we leave in half an hour — had our last night on the Johnny Walker now it 's local firewater or nothing remember what I said on the phone and do n't have it cut too short .
16 ‘ . All quite true of course , but it has little or nothing to do with the passage in question , whoch focuses very markedly not on Aeneas but on his father Anchises :
17 But electoral blocs had little or nothing to do with divergencies of opinions .
18 In Uruguay the first journal was called Ferrocarril ( ‘ Railway ’ ) , although its content had little or nothing to do with railways .
19 The body of work arising from Eugene Garfield 's pioneering efforts in launching his Science Citation Index during the early 1960s has little or nothing to do with evaluation by paper scores ( or their logs ) .
20 One of the oddities , though , is when C and M slip across a piece that has little or nothing to do with the high-tech graphics which preface their speciality corner .
21 He found that the proportion of over-70s registered for a proxy/postal vote varied from 0.7 per cent to 25 per cent in different parts of the country ; this variation has little or nothing to do with geographical or demographic factors .
22 However , the term ‘ disease ’ is slightly unfortunate in this context because it conjures up notions of a ‘ cause ’ that has little or nothing to do with the natural state of the organism but which is imposed on it , having a discontinuous effect ; as , for example , in infectious diseases .
23 It seems to imply , for one thing , that if someone has very strong preferences about what happens beyond his own person he thereby renders it important that certain things be done or left undone which have little or nothing to do with his personal life .
24 But more often than not these decisions are made for reasons which have little or nothing to do with creativity .
25 The Chinese definitions are complex : there are new entrants to the job market who are ‘ waiting for employment ’ ; those who have become unemployed because of new reforms which include a bankruptcy law ; those who refuse job assignment ; concealed unemployment where labour has been assigned to enterprises to maintain a fiction of full employment ; and surplus labour — peasants with little or nothing to do — in the rural areas .
26 In the liberal view the attraction exerted over them by extremist doctrines had little or nothing to do with the social composition of the radicals .
27 First , it is evident that the broad public interest criteria which are identified in the Fair Trading Act 1973 and the Competition Act 1980 , and the existence of the ‘ gateways ’ in the Restrictive Trades Practices Act 1976 , potentially ( and in practice ) permit issues to be considered that either have little or nothing to do with economic efficiency , or are more properly the concern of other areas of policy .
28 Any full study of ‘ unfair competition ’ would have to take account of the legislation protecting intangible business property like trade marks and patents , and of the statutory controls over restrictive trading agreements and monopolies , which have little or nothing to do with anything resembling the law of tort .
29 Consensus could not be guaranteed where particular groups had had little or nothing to do with a particular policy .
30 More often , however , the term was reserved for Delaunay and his disciples , Bruce , Frost , Sonia Delaunay and Alice Bailly , and for painters such as Picabia , Kupka and Duchamp who had all been originally classified as Cubists but whose work was becoming more abstract , although it had little or nothing to do with that of Delaunay .
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