Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] they [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the defining characteristics of a public good is non-eccludability : once the benefit is produced , it is accessible to everyone , however much or little they contributed to the result . |
| 2 | Or rather they seemed to be . ’ |
| 3 | Or rather they did . |
| 4 | Archosaurs , the forerunners of dinosaurs , also probably lost heat through their surface skin , or perhaps they had air sacs beneath the skin to effect further cooling , and which also may have made them lighter on their feet . |
| 5 | Lambert hesitated , finding excuses in wanting to oversee the complete destruction of the flaming balloon , or wondering where the Triplane was , or perhaps they had a third balloon somewhere … |
| 6 | Or perhaps they had gone with their people to comfort them . |
| 7 | Or perhaps they felt shy anyway , seeing her here where she did n't belong . |
| 8 | Or perhaps they did n't actually do any work at all . |
| 9 | Commissioners nominated by the Lords and Commons were to ascertain the proper bounds of the forests by means of local inquiries , the perambulations returned into the Court of Chancery , and all places beyond the certified bounds were to be absolutely free from the Forest law , with the proviso that the owners and occupiers of land left out of the forest were to retain ‘ such rights of common as anciently or accustomably they had enjoyed ’ . |
| 10 | Within a mile or less they came to a stream . |
| 11 | At the initiative of the centrist faction , however , the Court adopted a new test of the constitutionality of state abortion laws , by considering whether or not they constituted an " absolute obstacle or severe limitation to the abortion decision " . |
| 12 | Rats undergoing massive small bowel resection weighed less than controls both at one and two weeks whether or not they received CR-1409 ( 8–14% less at one week , p<0.001 ; 10–24% less at two weeks , p<0.001 ) . |
| 13 | Whether or not they lied in describing the agreement with Edmund , as Florence claims , Cnut 's use of it ( assuming that the Worcester chronicler can be trusted thus far ) to legitimise his position is interesting , because it suggests that right of conquest was not thought title enough . |
| 14 | This party , oblivious to my presence , were arguing over whether or not they had found the summit , which depressed me somewhat . |
| 15 | Opinion among doctors seemed to be more polarised , depending on whether or not they had worked with him ; the term ‘ lazy devil ’ had passed more than one set of lips that morning . |
| 16 | On the other hand , the great majority reckoned that they themselves had taken the decision to use a particular type of credit ( regardless of whether or not they had seriously considered any other type too ) . |
| 17 | Hécaen and Sauguet ( 1971 ) classified brain damaged left handers according to whether or not they had one close left-handed relative . |
| 18 | But our interviewers spoke to families from all walks of life and found class had no bearing on whether or not they had access to books . ’ |
| 19 | But whether or not they had sufficient power to exert real influence on state policy , the monarchs were justified in considering themselves the most important persons on the European political stage . |
| 20 | Growing congressional concern over the matter had also been demonstrated by the decision of the Senate armed services committee to block promotion for more than 4,500 Navy and Marine Corps officers until information was forthcoming on whether or not they had been involved in the assaults . |
| 21 | The physical setting of a parish influenced not only the ways in which a family might farm their land or work at a particular craft but also such basic matters as whether they lived in a village , a hamlet or an isolated farmstead , whether or not they had valuable rights of common to go with their farms or cottages , and sometimes the type of tenure by which they held their land . |
| 22 | The performance of students was also examined with regard to whether or not they had been involved in some type of formal study during the two years prior to entry to the DipHE . |
| 23 | Secondly , all claimants on the fund would receive payment whether or not they had actually suffered any loss as a result of the 1947 Act . |
| 24 | There scientists will discover the sex and age of the skeletons and whether or not they had any diseases . |
| 25 | The former chairman of the board of governors of Longlands College in Middlesbrough is a quietly spoken man , who when he was elected in November said he was determined to serve all the people of Langbaurgh , whether or not they had voted for him . |
| 26 | There has been some concern that several teachers took tickets to sell but failed to let know whether or not they had sold them which made catering difficult . |
| 27 | I did wonder at first whether or not they realized what they were taking on because Baldersdale is another world compared to what they have been accustomed to — very different indeed . |
| 28 | Whether or not they wrote his writs is doubtful . |
| 29 | And this , in turn , would seem to justify Professor Gaddis 's conclusion that the assumption was that such governments , whether in Western Europe or Japan , and whether or not they came to power by legal or illegal means , could only be regarded as instruments of the Kremlin and hence not truly independent . |
| 30 | Some children moved out of specialist provision into playgroups ( full or part time ) and made considerable strides in social relationships , becoming part of a community and friendship network which continued into their schooldays , whether or not they went to special school at 5 years . |