Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [pron] [vb -s] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is related to the hedgehog , or rather it belongs to the same family of insectivores . |
| 2 | Or so it appears from the valuable memoirs of Mrs Belloc Lowndes , in chapter nine of her Merry Wives of Westminster : |
| 3 | Scientists have rather a bad press in these lists , as well as tending to drag down the market value of their places of study , or so it seems to the editors . |
| 4 | With legs stretched out and with no space to flex a muscle — or so it seems to the beginner — a sneeze might unbalance the boat . |
| 5 | Or so he says at the beginning of his book . |
| 6 | He was in many ways a remarkable Prime Minister , although there were obviously faults — and some grave faults — that history alone will assess in determining whether or not he ranks among the greats . |
| 7 | For Kuhn , whether a field qualifies as a science or not depends on whether or not it conforms to the account of science offered in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions . |
| 8 | Love may or may not produce happiness ; whether or not it does in the end , its primary effect is to energize . |
| 9 | We refer to everything in the plane exterior to 1.5kpc as the ‘ disk ’ , and consider all material inside 1.5kpc , whether or not it lies in the plane , to be part of the bulge . |
| 10 | This means that an applicant seeking a first interim order in care proceedings , whether or not it follows upon an emergency protection order , should file and serve on all respondents before the hearing statements of the evidence to be relied upon . |
| 11 | Sooner or later it occurs to the owner that , for the price of two or three battery changes , it should be possible to make a transformer-rectifier unit capable of acting as a permanent substitute for the battery . |
| 12 | But sooner or later it turns into a crisis of resources — practical , personal and political . |
| 13 | Or when he meditates on The Price of Bras : |
| 14 | As we straighten our tie and suck on a Cloret , we reflect gloomily that the Mail on Sunday categorized Denice 's former dates as ‘ rich , famous and suntanned ’ and we try to hope that perhaps she feels like a change . |
| 15 | More often than not no-one bothers about the height factor , with the result that the speaker may have to peer at his notes or stand awkwardly or otherwise find it impossible to combine proper use of the mike with proper use of the lectern . |
| 16 | The debate which may ensue from involving another person in a decision may at times seem to complicate things , but more often than not it adds to the validity of the decision . |
| 17 | It was only later that he found out that nearly everyone suffers from the same delusion in one form or another ; at the time he was convinced that it was his own personal idiosyncrasy . |
| 18 | The sites and forms of these have constantly been changing , so that often what appears as a nucleated village around a green can be shown to be the last , and a relatively late , development in the landscape . |
| 19 | The auxiliary impression , he suggested , was due to such things as the skin being of different thicknesses at different parts of the body , the fact that sometimes it extends over the firm surfaces of the bones , sometimes over the flesh of the muscles , sometimes over cavities , and so on . |
| 20 | The basic idea is that profit from long-term business is recognised as it accrues rather than when it emerges as a cash surplus released from a long-term fund , as the current statutory method dictates . |
| 21 | More than likely it belongs in the decade AD 60–70 , to judge from the presence of a coin of AD 67 in the truncated western rampart and the quantity of pre- and early-Flavian samian recovered in the Fosse Way suburb . |
| 22 | And so what happens to the other part of Sussex , does that belong to a different region ? |
| 23 | Food and drinks are always at hand , but not petrol — garages close at 7pm and only one opens on a rota basis . |
| 24 | If only it holds for a while . ’ |
| 25 | And out he goes and gets this woman and in she comes with a chart with a woman 's name the job number , that done it week by week or fortnight , whatever it does . |
| 26 | … the lands belonging to Pagham , firstly from the West of Withering , by that harbour to the place which is called Bonar Stream , and thus it leads to the long village . |
| 27 | Few closing periods approach in breadth and sweep the ‘ Salve ’ concluding his five-part ‘ Salve regina ’ ; and long before the contrivances of the madrigalists , he could create in his six-part Stabat mater a mood of brooding , despairing introspection and melancholy that gathers an inexorable momentum and energy until finally it erupts into the startling , percussive outburst of ‘ Crucifige , crucifige ! ’ |
| 28 | ‘ We are still drafting , and exactly what goes into the legislation has not been settled , ’ he said . |
| 29 | Well first of all I 'd go down Street and up Street West and up to the top of Street and there was some puddling furnaces , the new side iron works and I 'd watch those men they 'd produce wrought iron and during the process the metal boils up and I 'd have to get a big rubbling bar and rubble they 'd call rubble into a ball , there 's a little wagon put underneath the put under the wagon and off he goes to the steam hammer , now I used to be fascinated with this and Saturday after Saturday I used to go up there and watch one of the heats and as soon as they 'd finished doing they used to go into the Forge and Hammer for a drink , I mean it was such hard work so they 'd do a heat go up the Forge and Iron and come back and then do another heat when I 'd |
| 30 | Yes , I think , and also it depends on the area that you live , do you think John ? |