Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] it [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Has it made him more docile and thus easier to control , or has it destabilised him ? |
| 2 | Two legs good or four wheels bad or does it depend who 's in the driving seat , after all who ever heard of a road sow . |
| 3 | Does your spider feed on the prey at once or does it wrap it in sticky threads and feed on it later ? |
| 4 | Or does it mean something else ? |
| 5 | ‘ That does n't sound too awful — or does it mean you 'll be in purdah ? ’ |
| 6 | Is this a pedantic inconsistency , or does it reflect something more consequential ? |
| 7 | Does it say I 've got to do anything about it or does it say I 'm on it anyway |
| 8 | Or does it become one when that plate is restored by another hand ( as with Rembrandt 's ‘ Christ Healing the Sick ’ ? ) |
| 9 | Yet no one stops it or persuades it to change its mind . |
| 10 | In an interview last week on the French radio station France Inter 's RadioCom program , Alcatel Alsthom NV president Pierre Suard indicated he did not rule out taking a stake in France Telecom if the latter is privatised by the next administration : ‘ I do n't think the question has been posed today , but when it is , I can tell you that we will study it very seriously , ’ Suard said — ‘ It is essential that France Telecom has a structure that enables it to extend itself beyond France and I think that can come from a new shareholder ; there is industrial logic in the ‘ world 's number one manufacturer of telecommunications equipment ’ owning a stake in a telecommunications operator , ’ he added — ‘ It is the Anglo-Saxon logic ; AT&T is constructed on that basis , but up to now , it has not been European logic , ’ he said . |
| 11 | The fact that we are doctors , priests , social workers will not necessarily be of any advantage to us , nor does it give us any right to expect intimate revelations . |
| 12 | The Aragonese were politely told by Edward ( in January 1283 ) that ‘ we are bound by kinship and by homage to the king of France , nor does it behove us to rebel against him in any way , nor to do anything to arouse his anger nor give him offence ’ . |
| 13 | Editor , — J K Aronson and D J M Reynolds 's article on monitoring treatment with aminoglycoside antibiotics does not adequately address optimal dosing with these agents or the timing of assays , nor does it specify which patients need monitoring . |
| 14 | For the sake of this exercise , it matters little that , as a Soviet planner , I fail to narrow the gap between my compressor technology and yours ; nor does it concern me that one rouble of imported Western equipment requires five roubles in investment support : if the six roubles I invest produce fifty roubles of output , how have I injured myself ? |
| 15 | ‘ Your sexy persona does not necessarily indicate what you imagine your sexy being doing in bed , nor does it indicate who you 're attracted to . ’ |
| 16 | Nor does it get us anywhere to learn from Anna Dostoevsky 's Memoirs that the story of the frantic Shatov , where phrasing seems inevitable and images unsought — it does n't help to be told by the novelist 's widow that these flawless pages lean heavily on his own behaviour while their first child was being born . |
| 17 | The problem appeared because Brutus tells Cassius of Portia 's death ( and uses it to explain his bad temper towards Cassius ) . |
| 18 | Elastic materials convert mechanical work into potential energy which is recoverable ; for example an ideal spring , if deformed by a stress , stores the energy and uses it to recover its original shape after removal of the stress . |
| 19 | DEC 's demonstration showed it running with 256Mb internal and 852Mb disk , and says it had it running with 4Gb external in the labs . |
| 20 | Sequent expects to continue to win orders from the traditional mainframe market and says it expanded its sales force to 160 from 125 at the end of 1991 although total employment fell to 1,550 from a peak of 1,800 . |
| 21 | As he buckles it and breaks it to get it in the bin , a strange sweet sadness rises to his throat . |
| 22 | KELVIN Pearson with a pug mill which drives air bubbles from the filter , pugs clay and kneads it to make it malleable . |
| 23 | If takes it to transcribe it , can we still write the essay ? |
| 24 | It tenderises it and helps it retain its natural juices . |
| 25 | The newsletter rates HP the leading Unix vendor last year and expects it to consolidate its position this year with at least the 40% revenue increase it got last year on an 80% increase in shipped units . |
| 26 | Anyone want to pick up the ball and run with it and would question whether it is considered necessary and does it give you sufficient guidance at strategic level ? |
| 27 | And does it give you volume or not ? |
| 28 | What size should it be and does it matter which design is chosen ? |
| 29 | He found the experience of working in a wide variety of company departments invaluable and believes it held him in good stead when he reached the higher echelons of management . |
| 30 | But if you 're walking along with a bird on a jess , your movement disrupts it and stops it protecting itself from the wind as it would do naturally . |