Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] [pron] [vb infin] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Or does one hammer the nails into one 's own coffin ?
2 What comment has the minister to make on this example of corporate ethics or does she like the Prime Minister believe it 's no matter for her ?
3 Or does it generate a file ?
4 Is it music for his imagined funeral , or does it remind the singer that although unhappy , he is in love ?
5 Does that mean no more without development in the deposited greenbelt , as in the greenbelt as defined in the deposited greenbelt local plan , or does it mean no more unless it is hard up against that greenbelt ?
6 Does ‘ the constitution ’ mean the make-up of the committee or does it mean the constitutionality of the committee ?
7 Does the phrase ‘ I Do Hereby exoner , acquit and simpliciter Discharge ’ mean any more than ‘ I Do Hereby Discharge ’ or even ‘ I Discharge ’ , or does it leave the layman wondering if the words contain some qualification to or extension of an absolute discharge , slipped in by a crafty lawyer to defeat the ends of justice ?
8 Or does it re-create a folk tale such as the Fokine-Stravinsky The Firebird or a national epic such as Bintley 's The Swan of Tuoneia ?
9 Or does it represent a model , a paradigm which , when the peculiarities of Russia 's development are stripped away , reveals the direction towards which capitalism inevitably leads ?
10 ‘ Is your question one of personal curiosity , or does it represent an official line of enquiry ? ’ countered Toby , crossing his skeletal ankles .
11 Does this mean that McDonald 's does n't achieve higher margins , or does it reflect an even larger degree of undervaluation of these currencies , or other factors ?
12 Ask the manufacturer which company is supplying the maintenance — is it provided by the manufacturer itself , or does it have a third party maintenance contract ?
13 Does dismissal of God 's existence make for greater openness and enquiry , or does it have the effect of closing the door on trying to understand what is strange or threatening to itself which might be , for example , the claims of other religions ?
14 Does it lead to — even require — greater openness , or does it close the mind up ?
15 Is Jamie being collected , or does he want a ride home ? ’
16 Does he think that we should employ 5,000 HMIs to carry out inspections , or does he prefer the Labour party 's solution — that only local councils should be allowed to inspect schools ?
17 Is the Minister satisfied that not a single case was substantiated by the independent Police Complaints Commission , or does he share the scepticism of Lord Colville and others , who feel that nought out of 726 does not reflect the world that we in Northern Ireland inhabit ?
18 Is this , all these wonderful protection of animals , dogs and horses and so on , and pet shops and so on , do , does the Chief Fire Officer think in his local knowledge , that most of these have been inspected by his officers , or does he get the feeling there , that sometimes the district councils are not asking for these inspections ?
19 Viewer , the add-in that lets you see the contents of files still on disk , has been improved and now allows the import of ASCII text and now lets you save the current worksheet and retrieve a new file in a single command — so reducing the risk of +:F7 you loosing the work you had just been doing before using it !
20 Healthy Home Cooking is the major new series from Time-Life Books that lets you enjoy the very finest foods and healthy , nutritious eating .
21 Management therefore need information that helps them determine the cost and effectiveness of alternative programmes given a variety of resource constraints ( typically the imposition of cash limits and target staffing levels ) .
22 He is born with that instinct , for no mother wasp ever taught him , nor does he possess the capacity to learn something so fundamental to his existence .
23 Nor does he feel the stockmarket has fully discounted a recession .
24 Sartre never broaches the question of the other crimes committed by Stalin ( which is just as well in view of the way the argument is going ) nor does he address the obvious problem that his own identification of Stalin as the practical Marxist of specificities against Trotsky 's abstract universalism runs directly counter to the fact that Stalinism produced the most clear-cut example of a Marxism which internalized an abstract schema within itself .
25 Nor does he consider the possibility that some pupils may find that the approach does not work for them .
26 Nor does he render a service in country B or anywhere else by refraining in consequence of the grant from taking preventive action against the grantee .
27 Nor does he condone the lawlessness ( or more precisely , " the frantic and lawless conduct " ) of the other rebels ( 36.11 ) .
28 But the Marschallin does not misjudge , nor does she sentimentalize the situation .
29 Nor does she have a sense for the impact which the fact that Christ has been seen as male and as part of the Godhead has had on the relations of women and men in western culture .
30 This does not prevent members from seeking an injunction to restrain the act from being done , nor does it affect the liability of the directors for such an act ( s. 35(1) — ( 3 ) CA ) .
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