Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] or [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am still not clear whether my confidence was the product of my faith or whether I had generated a blind optimism to prevent the facts from crushing me . |
| 2 | I 'm just wondering if it 's my teeth or that it 's just my blood that 's doing it . |
| 3 | Sometimes , when she was startled or frightened on my fist or as I approached her , it was painful to think that I might be responsible for her fear . |
| 4 | Chairman , I , I , I , I object to that , because I think that that was n't either the tone of my question or or the implication of my question . |
| 5 | Er I hope that makes the matter clear , because when we come to make a decision on this group of amendments , er when I er seek the opinion of the er Committee on my Amendment five , I shall only be seeking agreement to Amendment five and its related amendments er eight and eleven and if the Noble Lord , Lord er if , if the House were er to disagree with my Amendment or if it were to be withdrawn and the Noble Lord , Lord amendment were , were put , I think he would agree that it would only tha that that a decision by the Committee would only relate to the amendments in his name because we have in fact four alternatives before us which we are debating together . |
| 6 | Right so can I have my opinion or or can I speak with these other people 's opinion |
| 7 | We sat on our stools and I smiled at him , thinking he was going to ask me about my dress or where I lived or something , and he said , ‘ Who 's your favourite philosopher ? ’ |
| 8 | I thought I 'd either holed my shot or that I had missed the green as well . ’ |
| 9 | And used to happen twice a year and erm sometimes somebody 'd remember my birthday or find that I had my birthday or and at Christmas time we used to get some money . |
| 10 | You have n't even enquired about my holiday or where I spent it . ’ |
| 11 | I do n't know if anybody would ever give me work or if I 'd find time to do it . |
| 12 | I 'll never know whether it was to sharpen their teeth or whether they liked the taste of lead . |
| 13 | And despite all its promise it is not yet clear whether it will pull capitalism out of its recession or whether it will only serve the interests of affluent minorities . |
| 14 | It 's a little like listening to those debates in parliament where parliament vote themselves extra salaries and I feel very uncomfortable in this process , I thought I might be coming here this morning to disagree with my own group , or those members of them that do n't agree with me , perhaps joined with the conservatives in opposing this motion , but I find in fact that everybody is saying oh let's put up the er , the heading , I feel very uncomfortable with this having spent six months in the budget review , criticising officers up hill and down dale every time that they exceeded their budget , having told them that either they balance their budget or that they came in next year with a budget with no more than a one and a half percent increase , or their successors would be doing it for us . |
| 15 | I did n't think of her ; I ca n't say I went because I respected her decision or because I thought it was in her interest ; I knew it was n't in her interest , or mine , or ours . |
| 16 | Considering the relativism eating into faith today , it is hard to know which is more surprising — that so many people lose their faith or that more people do not . |
| 17 | She thought that once she would have been described as an ‘ old maid ’ and wondered whether she could blame her brothers or if it was all her own fault for being too easy-going . |
| 18 | Erm first of all can I put the county on notice to er respond later on this afternoon to the thesis expanded by Professor Lock that er it might be tenable to start calculating employment land requirements based on numbers of employed or numbers in employment or desired ai or employment levels to be aimed at , er and coupled with that , is there anything in the figures which they have produced in either their submission or and and its appendices which actually might form a basis for that sort of calculation ? |
| 19 | It does seem to us that the impetus is lost if the library committee is either unable or unwilling to continue its work or if key individuals in the project subsequently leave the school . |
| 20 | In most cases we will be asking when a particular parish or set of parish boundaries was first defined , and if that was the date of its origin or if it is older . |
| 21 | Clearly , you may also be able to persuade someone to lend you money if you have power of some sort — if they owe you a favour or if you are their boss or if you are in a position of some authority for example . |
| 22 | In these cases , either assist the foal to get to its feet or if necessary , milk the colostrum from the mare and give it to the foal using a rubber teat and a bottle . |
| 23 | The plaintiff could not prove that the defendant knew it was a secret process either because of its nature or because he had been specifically told that it was and Vaisey J pointed out that if it were really secret it was surprising that the defendant 's employment had brought him into contact with it ; he had been to prison in the past . |
| 24 | Elizabeth took no part in this discussion and Lydia wondered whether it was her imagination or whether Elizabeth had the air of someone who could say a great deal if she chose . |
| 25 | I had seen him turn human with Margaret , but that glimpse had not been enough to tell me now whether he had stopped on recognizing me for her sake or because I was a Benedict 's nurse . |
| 26 | A glance at the shelf containing his long list of books shows us immediately that the bulk of his work was completed when Minto was in her dotage or after she died . |
| 27 | He wondered whether she had always been quite so uncaring of her appearance or whether it had been grief and rage at Uncle Bill 's defection that had started this off . |
| 28 | The bride , however , may speak instead of her husband or as well as him . |
| 29 | Later , when I was more familiar with the beliefs and practices of the movement and had ‘ learned the language ’ , I would interact with the Moonies as though I were one of them , and , although I never pretended that I accepted their beliefs or that I was anything other than a sociologist studying the movement , members who did not know me would mistake me for a member — the Moonies themselves were no longer ‘ translating ’ for me when we were interacting . |
| 30 | This does not assume , she claims , that people are always completely conscious of their efforts or that they clearly articulate the reasons for trends of common behaviour . |