Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pron] [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or d' you want the whole ward to wake up just for one milk tooth ? ’ |
| 2 | After a time he began to whisper in a voice that tried now to be soft and gentle , in complete contrast to his alarm calls : ‘ Come on , Minch , you ca n't really be so ill that you ca n't show me your face just for a moment , or let me hear the ruffle of one of your wings . |
| 3 | The equanimity of your average tosser of coins depends upon the law , or rather a tendency , or let us say a probability , or at any rate a mathematically calculable chance , which ensures that he will not upset himself by losing too much nor upset his opponent by winning too often . |
| 4 | Doubtless there is a batteur in the wings or for the chorus , the orchestra only needing a maître de musique , or let us say a conducteur ; a batteur de mesure being not the ‘ most essential artist at the Opera ’ but the most intolerable … |
| 5 | Well , do you normally walk in or , or , or do you expect a ride ? |
| 6 | Do you want to order now or do you want a quote ? |
| 7 | Do we mean a symbol which only ‘ represents ’ a reality — like a road sign — or do we mean a sign which actually embodies or conveys , in some shape or form , the reality to which it points ? |
| 8 | Do we mean the representation of impairment , or do we mean the representation of social barriers , or do we mean the recording of the interface between the two ? |
| 9 | Do we mean the representation of impairment , or do we mean the representation of social barriers , or do we mean the recording of the interface between the two ? |
| 10 | or do we print the whole lot . |
| 11 | Is it a compulsory set of questions on or do we have a choice ? |
| 12 | Do we , for instance , place a tick in the square labelled ‘ baby burps ’ and another in the box called ‘ mother pats back ’ ; or do we include a box called ‘ mother responds to baby ’ ; or at a higher level , does she score a point on an index of ‘ sensitivity ’ ? |
| 13 | Or do we get a new car ? |
| 14 | Do we chase the free range hens and find the eggs as best we can or do we put the hens into a battery ? |
| 15 | Should we identify brain functions with components of psychological processes revealed in psychological studies or do we need a new set of concepts for describing brain function ? |
| 16 | Or do they do a public service by tilting government towards more openness and accountability ? |
| 17 | The first basic question to be asked is whether theorists understand the concept of social representations to apply only to particular sons of society , or do they intend the concept to be a universal one ? |
| 18 | Could they be introduced as token , surface changes or do they necessitate a fundamental reorganization of the way the school operates ? |
| 19 | Is it me or do they whistle a lot ? |
| 20 | Do they derive from the power of men over women in the domestic arena and/or the labour market , or do they reflect the wishes of the carers themselves , or the assumptions about sex roles embedded in social policies or the ideology of sex-role stereotyping and prevailing ideas of women 's proper place … |
| 21 | Or do they exhibit a regular alternation , recalling the systematic mosaics seen in some non-mammalian species ? |
| 22 | Wood and Gipps ( 1982 ) pose an interesting dilemma for decision-makers allocating resources : do they give resources to the schools with poor results , thus penalising the good ones ( from which the good schools may learn the best way to get resources ) , or do they reward the good schools and let the poor ones suffer ? |
| 23 | Or do they need a mass literacy programme ? |
| 24 | Are theories just another kind of story , or do they constitute a radically distinct form of discourse ? |
| 25 | Do you get results quickly and often , or do they take a long time to come through ? |
| 26 | Do individuals lose all sense of time and become erratic , or do they maintain a rhythmicity in their lifestyle and bodily functions ? |
| 27 | Are they designed to assess levels of intellectual ability , or do they have an ulterior motive in seeking to shine a light on a suitable psyche ? |
| 28 | Ask yourself the question , ‘ Is it my desire , my greed , my wish to be in control that drives me in this matter , or do I feel the lightness of purpose that is a mark of the guidance from within ? ’ |
| 29 | And again or do I put A |
| 30 | Is there a software fix for mouse.com or do I need a serial mouse ? |