Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] it [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or rather it contributes by setting the question in a certain way . |
| 2 | ( This is a borderline case between normal and deviant justification , or rather it points to one of the many ambiguities in my formulation of the normal justification thesis . ) |
| 3 | It is related to the hedgehog , or rather it belongs to the same family of insectivores . |
| 4 | It is simply a rule of the language , or rather it follows from its basic rules , that one speaks misleadingly if one utters or assents to that statement without having that belief . |
| 5 | Or perhaps it followed from that carefully nurtured tradition of political and religious toleration which was seen even by foreigners as a distinctively English achievement in the era of parliamentary government . |
| 6 | Or perhaps it belonged to a child who was under rubble . |
| 7 | I wish to be at home with you indeed , indeed-my Joy is only in the bud here I am like that Tree , which fronts me — The Sun shines bright & warm , as if it were summer — but it is not summer & so it shines on leafless boughs . |
| 8 | For a month or so it looked as if he had succeeded in defusing the time bomb , but soon Catholic leaders were arguing that nothing was really changing . |
| 9 | The Land Campaign , or so it seemed to the Conservatives , threatened to wipe out those gains at a time when the party showed no signs of an electoral recovery elsewhere . |
| 10 | His heart began to make a terrible noise , or so it seemed to him . |
| 11 | Once the police have arrested you , or so it seemed to us , they will throw the book at you in order to make something stick . |
| 12 | We were silly girls , forced by our situation to be idle , thrust back — or so it seemed to me — into childhood games of playing house . |
| 13 | She had just met a small girl who possessed , or so it seemed to her , quite extraordinary qualities of brilliance . |
| 14 | The park had a few fairly large hills ( or so it seemed to me at the time ) topped by a castle , a lake with a river running through it and quite a few trees scattered here and there . |
| 15 | The body in its stiff ungainliness , beginning already , or so it seemed to his over-sensitive nose , to emit the first sour-sweet stink of decay , yet had an inalienable dignity because it once had been a man . |
| 16 | Or so it seemed to Jaq . |
| 17 | So lofty were these papal prerogatives , that no further Council would ever be needed , or so it seemed to many . |
| 18 | It followed , or so it seemed to us , that while steps should be taken to clear the streets of soliciting prostitutes , the behaviour of consenting male adults in private was their affair and not the laws ' . |
| 19 | Out of a clear sky , or so it seemed to them . |
| 20 | First it was something good , or so it seemed to me . |
| 21 | Or so it seemed to Scott . |
| 22 | Or so it seemed to him . |
| 23 | Blanche shrugged sympathetically , or so it seemed to the sergeant , as if to say , ‘ I understand . |
| 24 | For many years the British had tried to run him , or so it seemed to many . |
| 25 | It was enough , or so it seemed to Maggie . |
| 26 | The administrative arrangement and supervision required for such teamwork was exactly the sort of skill in which Lewis excelled , and the hours passed quickly with the progressive gleaning of intelligence , the gradual build up of hard fact to bolster tentative theory — and always that almost insolent gratification that shone in Morse 's eyes , for the latter appeared to have known ( or so it seemed to Lewis ) most of the details before the calls and corroboration had been made . |
| 27 | Civil war was the spectre which haunted much of sixth-century Gaul , or so it seemed to Gregory of Tours as he wrote the preface to the fifth book of his Histories . |
| 28 | With this as the acquired recording , it was exceedingly difficult — or so it seemed at the time — to slip down from the stress-filled beta-waves of everyday living , to those desired alpha-waves of mental quiet and healing . |
| 29 | Or so it seemed at the time . |
| 30 | The contrast was stark , an area devoid of anything green , or so it seemed from the air . |