Example sentences of "[coord] [conj] [noun] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Angy and I had supper together on the Monday evening but she never said that girl had been here , or that Rick was corning to see her . ’ |
| 2 | We could , however , challenge a man who asserted that , as a matter of historical fact , Cortés ( like Quetzalcoatl ) was born of an eagle and a serpent , or that Cortés was ordained to save the world , or that Cortés never died and now bides his time in some underground crypt awaiting a propitious moment to return and proclaim his sovereignty over Mexico . |
| 3 | In saying that an event c caused an event e , or that e was the effect of c , we typically have in mind but do not say that a set of things including c , but not necessarily all occurring at the same time , was required for e . |
| 4 | I wondered if the Great God Turhan Bey was in for a cut , or if Otto was doing it all off his own bat . |
| 5 | The owner of premises to be used for this purpose is required to obtain a ‘ disposal licence ’ under section 5(1) of that Act to either commence , or if disposal was already being carried out before the Act came into force , to continue operations . |
| 6 | Because I embroidered a little and introduced you as my fiancée , or because Melanie was there ? ’ |
| 7 | Then , when price is low firms do not know for sure whether it was because someone cheated ( produced a larger than agreed output ) , or because demand was low . |
| 8 | One could never tell when or whether Alan was wholly serious , for he found ideas exciting in themselves , too exciting , perhaps , ever to be put into practice : there he lay , smoking , waving , occasionally running his fingers through his thick black curly hair , and dropping cigarette ash through the slit into an old Coca-Cola tin . |
| 9 | Since there is no indication what Mira is unhappy about , or whether Leapor was thinking of any real person in Celia , it is very difficult to judge the significance of this poem . |
| 10 | True , there would be argument about how or whether Iraq was to be made to conform with clauses in the 11 other relevant Security Council resolutions and horror at the thought of the Iraqi regime surviving with its army and air force still largely undestroyed . |
| 11 | In the great majority of them , the point at issue ( whether a course should be given approval or whether approval was withheld ) invariably centred upon the balance it achieved between ‘ academic rigour ’ and ‘ professional ’ skills . |
| 12 | This is so irrespective of whether the contract had a fixed future date for delivery or whether delivery was to be within a reasonable length of time . |
| 13 | Whether the incorporation actually protected sleep , as the Freudian theory would predict , or whether incorporation was the consequence of delayed arousal remains unclear . |
| 14 | I would be interested to know whether this act of Philistinism was perpetrated on all copies for circulation in Indonesia ; or whether mine was singled out by an over-zealous protector of the public morality in customs — or the censorship bureau ? |
| 15 | The employee , either during or after employment was free to impart it to anyone — including his employer 's competitor . |
| 16 | The therapist did not think that the overdose had been associated with serious suicidal intent , nor that David was suffering from a psychiatric illness . |
| 17 | We do not know where he went to next , nor whether Richard was still with him . |
| 18 | It did not tell him how many French had crossed the frontier , nor whether blücher was concentrating his army ; all it told him was that a French force had pushed back the Prussian outposts . |
| 19 | Finally in this section , it is worth pointing out that in the first Unit of this course we learnt that organisations which were based on an open system ( where information flowed in and out through a ‘ permeable boundary ’ to its environment and publics and where adjustment was made in the light of feedback ) , were more able to adapt to change and continue to prosper . |
| 20 | I wrote him a long note explaining where he was , what had happened and where Mum was . |
| 21 | His cases were apt to be commonplace affairs , or at least to begin as such , as opposed to the affairs of state that occupied Holmes in his latter years , and where Holmes was tall and hawk-faced Hewitt was stoutish , of average height and had a round , smiling face . |
| 22 | On your left at 3/80 is the Academy of Applied Arts of 1884 , which was organized by Gustave Schmoranz , and where Kotěra was professor until 1910 . |
| 23 | It was happening in Liverpool , where giggly Karen had just started at the local secondary mod , and in London , where Dennis Parsons was fast learning that the prime number is number one , and where Liza was studying art at the Slade . |
| 24 | These tended to suggest that Iran was a magical , fairy-tale and where only justice prevailed and where progress was assured by an omniscient king . |
| 25 | We walked on above Long Bank Wood and Spring Bank where wild deer are said to roam and where Bill was made a fool of by several rabbits . |
| 26 | She slept badly , with what sleep she did get punctuated with dreams where Barney was driving away in her car , and where Cara was blaming her for letting him take it . |
| 27 | David and Olga are both retired from Cambridge University where David was a principal lecturer and member of the music faculty and where Olga was a music librarian . |
| 28 | Books about sex , illustrated guides to love-making , are also popular and are still considered as novelties in a society where such books have rarely been seen before and where sex was a taboo subject . |
| 29 | We were flying first to Nassau where the senator was to be guest of honour at an American Embassy reception for senior officers of the naval units taking part in Exercise Stingray , and after Nassau the Maggot and I would fly on to Grand Bahama where he lived and where Wavebreaker was docked . |
| 30 | I rang my mum and she wanted to know where I was and where Natasha was . |