Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [pron] [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or perhaps they were still wandering in that long stretch of country which lay between New York and the State of Wisconsin ? |
| 2 | Somehow I must have missed the original LPs ( or perhaps they were never released this side of the Atlantic ) , but here are Jean-Pierre Rampal , Isaac Stern , Yo-Yo Ma mixing it up with Japanese instrumentalists , playing traditional oriental music alongside pieces by Yamada , Miyagi , and Yoshizawa , amongst others . |
| 3 | I can not resist the feeling that the Government 's extraordinary surrender yesterday to German bullying over the recognition of Croatia had something to do with the need to appease German public opinion , which is turning nasty on the whole process — or perhaps it was just sucking up to the right hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. |
| 4 | Or perhaps it was just shock at seeing me without the gag . |
| 5 | Or perhaps he 's here to decide what to do with the mill . |
| 6 | Or perhaps he was just trying to find out what thallium was . |
| 7 | Or perhaps he was merely expressing caution about Romania 's chances of escaping from the Soviet orbit . |
| 8 | It 's very interesting to note that in contemporary political philosophy there is almost no room left for democratic decision making because in most theories that we 're given , more or less everything is already decided at a constitutional level I mean think of theory of justice , it 's the theory of justice that decides the basic nature of a constitution so the role of members of a government is simply to interpret and apply the constitution so they can make the most efficient tax policies given the basic constitution , but no individual has the authority to challenge that constitution and change it by democratic means . |
| 9 | This would lead , or so it was widely feared , to a change in labour market behaviour . |
| 10 | We 've got this erm , er , some one is going to monitor a proportion of work that you have recorded as transcripts anyway , and it will be a research director or A.D. I 'm just wondering whether we can comply with this now . |
| 11 | So here or here or here it is really zero We can never say it actually is |
| 12 | Or maybe they were merely sticking to the original arrangements for the meal . |
| 13 | Or maybe they were more aroused because of the flashing light , or maybe the light was affecting their visual system in some way . |
| 14 | Or maybe it was just lost . |
| 15 | It will be a condition only if either there is an earlier case establishing that such a clause is a condition ( i.e. ‘ of the essence ’ ) or else it was clearly intended by the parties when they made the contract that any breach of that term would entitle the other party to repudiate the contract and reject the goods . |
| 16 | The terrified young Frenchman tried to answer Sharpe 's questions , but either he knew very little or else he was cleverly hiding what he did know . |
| 17 | Did n't he recognize that trade , the trade union movement had a role to play er in that , in , on that page and to the , to the credit of , of the local press , they had responded and so we are now asked to put forward the views of the trade union movement , something I think which local trades councils should be doing , should be the role of local trades councils to do that effectively . |
| 18 | ‘ They had n't tested the French market at all before opening and so everything was just delivered from Wales , hung up and not thought about . |
| 19 | Tt and so he was then sent to er to er wo mi mop up this little skirmish in Korea . |
| 20 | Er , so you can say that er Mr is a friend of pensioner 's , he said , he said he would be prepared to , what I , I , I approached him and said er , what about Harlow Caring Council , are they prepared to assist the pensioners in any way or do they wish to join in on this , oh yes he said , of course Norman he said , how much are you paying er Ron I said well his asking forty pound for the , for the morning , oh he said I 'll go half way with that , then he came out and said to me , pull me up afterwards and ask me to go to leisure services about the Tuesday , and so I 'm still following that up and hopefully we will have two days on pensioner 's week , because you want to have as much impact as possible and in a few moments , when I nearly finished here , I shall be reading you something where you 'll see that it is important that we make an impact on the people of Harlow . |
| 21 | There was never any budget and so I was just using stuff that I 'd already recorded here and there — hence the roughness of it . |
| 22 | And so I was almost predestined to consider how the two great nations of Western Europe , the Germans and the English , related to one another . |
| 23 | The substance was soft and so she was hardly bruised , but her uniform and her hands and face were smeared and streaked with mud . |
| 24 | The killas weathers and crumbles easily and so it is easily eroded by rivers and the sea . |
| 25 | This discretion can also be used to justify refusal of leave to apply for judicial review under RSC Ord. 53 ; and so it is sometimes said that the whole judicial review jurisdiction is discretionary , not just the remedies . |
| 26 | And so it was actually becoming dangerous at the same time . |
| 27 | The biggest problem with the diabetic clinic is that time tends to be very limited and perhaps it is best regarded as a place for assessment and the identification of problems , with a little time for education . |
| 28 | There are , and apparently they are still counting , 13 of them ready to descend with their bells and hats and shoes and pretty bogus folklore . |
| 29 | He 'd upset her thoroughly , and obviously she was still sulking , because she would never have got up before him otherwise . |
| 30 | ‘ It has n't dawned on her yet , and anyway she 's always finding people to look after her , or so she thinks . |