Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [pron] [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had retired to NZ after a long career in education and publishing with Schofield & Sims , Collins Educational and Holmes McDougall , where latterly he had been publishing director . |
| 2 | Or perhaps it had been clear a long time before that . |
| 3 | Or perhaps it had been a present from a — he swallowed , feeling sweaty with embarrassment — from a lover or something . |
| 4 | She seemed to have completely forgotten her rage , or perhaps it had been channelled into a more dangerous , calculating form , thought Isabel in dread . |
| 5 | Or perhaps it 's been moved . |
| 6 | Or perhaps you 've been telling her about when her periods will be due . |
| 7 | He is wearing his traditional outfit of pinstriped suit , pinstriped shirt , spotted tie and Gucci shoes ; or perhaps he has been home and changed , and is now sporting yellow cords , a maroon V-necked jersey , and highly polished brown brogues . |
| 8 | Or perhaps she had been in too much of a hurry to change . |
| 9 | It will re-introduce some lorries onto the A ten eighty eight , but only about thirty per day compared with the six hundred or so which have been removed as a result of a current experiment . |
| 10 | Every now and again — or so she 'd been told — the owners would call in the books . |
| 11 | During the last half hour or so she had been pacing the room like a caged animal , insisting that the door should be kept ajar and the window opened wide . |
| 12 | In the past half century or so it has been discovered that water is a very strange substance indeed , exhibiting many anomalous and unexpected characteristics , some of which have already been mentioned in Chapter 7 . |
| 13 | They have n't been as much part of my life as I would like , because for the last year or so it has been more or less taken up by the future of the channel . |
| 14 | She shows some talent , or so I 've been told . |
| 15 | ‘ Or so I 've been told . ’ |
| 16 | Or so I had been told . |
| 17 | Or so I have been led to understand . |
| 18 | These gave ‘ very little message to the reader ’ , said Mr Godwin ; he would like to see the £1m or so he estimated was spent on catalogues being put into a generic campaign for books . |
| 19 | He knew the most trusted adviser of the late Tsar Peter had been a Scotsman , but there had been four Tsars since then , and there was a Tsarina , Elizabeth , on the throne , or so he had been told in Vilna . |
| 20 | That is where , or so he had been told , Brighton still offered a whiff of the cosmopolitan , esoteric atmosphere of the Left Bank in Paris or a hint of Berlin 's former decadence . |
| 21 | It turned out the Australian 's baggage with much expensive equipment had never arrived in Quito , not even made it to the continent ( or so he 'd been told ) , and I sensed he had no sympathy left for any other 's misfortune . |
| 22 | Over the last century or so there have been frequent conflicts between individual and group interests . |
| 23 | During the last 12 months or so there have been several major developments which will influence the international economic climate in which we all operate . |
| 24 | Every 100,000 years or so there has been a ‘ temperate window ’ when the ice has receded for seven to ten thousand years . |
| 25 | Over the past ten years or so there has been a great deal of innovative thinking and impressive empirical investigation in our field and the theory 1 have been reviewing has played its part . |
| 26 | There were only about seven people left now out of the dozen or so who had been gathered here earlier . |
| 27 | Where once he had been beautiful now he was hideous ; where once he had been mighty , now he was maimed . |
| 28 | Where once he had been beautiful now he was hideous ; where once he had been mighty , now he was maimed . |
| 29 | Where once he had been fair-spoken now his voice was horrible , forced out by ravaged lungs through a ruined throat . |
| 30 | Where once she had been desperate not to miss Johnny , now it seemed that she was fearful at the thought of meeting him . |