Example sentences of "[vb infin] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now we have n't , erm talking about er cars as to other forms of transport and on the whole there 's been more complaints about the public transport than they have about cars , but you surely do n't think or maybe you do , I mean what 's bad about cars ? , |
| 2 | And it may have still seemed a lot of money at I think one thousand seven hundred and fifty pounds , I ca n't comment or not not having seen the size of the estate , but it compares quite well with the five thousand one hundred and sixty sixty pound Five hu Five thousand seven hundred and sixteen pounds that the Midland bank charge on the particular estate . |
| 3 | These can either disappear or more often look larger and uneven in single-bed Fair Isle . |
| 4 | I mean shall I eat or not |
| 5 | Many brands will perish or never be so profitable again |
| 6 | Never rinse reusable filter materials in tap water and never use detergents or you will damage or totally destroy the beneficial bacteria that have built up the efficiency of the filter unit . |
| 7 | As far as this subject is concerned and the age of child you are teaching , it does not matter very much if you can draw or paint or not . |
| 8 | Indeed , Moscow entertained some hopes that the growth in interest in non-alignment in Latin America , a phenomenon which had induced Soviet writers in the mid 1970s to talk of a ‘ Latin American stage ’ of the Non-Aligned Movement , could weaken or even undermine the military treaty system which bound this continent to the United States . |
| 9 | There was a real fear that an amendment which satisfied developers would seriously weaken or even wreck the planning machine ; the scheme was part of a complex of planning controls which might easily be upset and result in a return to the very problems which the 1947 Act was designed to solve . |
| 10 | A mechanism must thus be provided whereby one set of pairs can modify or suddenly change into another . |
| 11 | Do shadows exist or not ? |
| 12 | The presumption was that whatever people said about their tastes , feelings , beliefs , attitudes or opinions was a reliable guide to how they would behave or how they would act . |
| 13 | ‘ You gon na buy or not , Harry ? |
| 14 | Mr Collin and the Department of Environment are both uncertain how many people will appeal or how the system will work . |
| 15 | In addition , it is open to the producer or director to show that he did not know or reasonably suspect that the offending programme would be included in a cable programme , or that in the context of the broadcast the programme would probably provoke racial hatred . |
| 16 | Yeah , that 's what I thought , see what the 're like , there 's one porky chop , is there any in here do you know or not ? |
| 17 | Some clients may feel that no-one can know or therefore write about their company as well as they can . |
| 18 | All that and more went through my mind , wrote Harsnet , as I sat there in the moonlight in the silence , but it was as if it was the glass which was telling me this , that the glass was my mind as I thought that , or my mind the glass , and that was the reason for the fear and the cold and also for the sense of growing excitement and a fear then , a different kind of fear , that I would not be able to do anything with this excitement , that it would be my failure , my failure to realize what I now saw were the real possibilities of the glass , a failure for which I would never be able to forgive myself , though a part of me would always know or perhaps only believe that it was in the nature of my insight that there could be no realization of it , that it was precisely an insight about non-realization , but by then , wrote Harsnet , it had all become too complicated , too extreme , I did not want to know any of it until it was all over , until I had made my effort , perhaps it had been a mistake to come in and sit there with the glass through the night with the moon shining so brightly , it must have been full , or nearly full , unnaturally bright anyway , something to do with the solstice perhaps , to sit in the room with the glass alone or with the moon alone might have been bearable , in the dark with the glass or in the moonlight in an empty room , but the two together , the glass and the moon , that was perhaps the mistake . |
| 19 | The problem is getting an answer , or a least one that does n't tell us anything we do n't already know or indeed anything at all . |
| 20 | When the deadline for judging whether the republics should be recognised arrives in January , will the 12 Foreign Ministers meet again to decide collectively whether the criteria have been met and whether all of them will recognise or not recognise the republics ? |
| 21 | I would binge and vomit or just not eat at all . |
| 22 | A little sick or badly sick , sick with something you can catch or not catch ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ An order under section 61(1) that the third , fourth and fifth defendants and each of them pay such sum as the court thinks fit to the plaintiffs or alternatively into court or alternatively to each and every investor who was a party to a transaction referred to in paragraph 30 or alternatively to each and every investor who was a party to a transaction referred to in paragraph 31 in such manner as the court may direct or alternatively that they take such other steps as the court may direct for the purpose of remedying the contravention by the first defendant of sections 47 and 57 . |
| 24 | The most piddling aspects of my embodiment furnished me with prophecy : hanging on whether the flap of gum skin comes away , then … the leaf will fall or not fall , I will die or be immortal , the sun will rise or not . |
| 25 | This duty also prevents an employee from taking advantage of any approach which is initiated by a customer or supplier even though the employee did not seek or even encourage it , as happened in Sanders ' case . |
| 26 | They seem to think they 're special in some way , almost as though they had the right to choose whether they 'll cooperate or not . ’ |
| 27 | The European Commission will have to review and approve or otherwise IBM Corp 's proposed acquisition of Compagnie Generale d'Informatique SA : it has four weeks to decide whether the alliance could harm competition in Community markets ; if it has ‘ serious doubts ’ about the transaction , it will then launch a deeper , four-month probe . |
| 28 | ( i.e. does it manufacture or just buy in and sell ? ) |
| 29 | They would survive or not , to accumulate more memories , happy or sad as the case might be . |
| 30 | I could ABAB ABAB or even ABAB CDCD . |