Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [pron] [be] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the same proposal , associated with the Port Royal grammar and earlier versions of Chomskyan grammar , which has already been mentioned in this chapter in connexion with prenominal attributives ( 3.2 and 3.3 ) ; or rather it is part of the same proposal , since the full clause with adjective in post-copular position is claimed as the " origin " for both sorts of attributive . |
| 2 | Or perhaps there are schemes for the disabled to rent computers at lower rates ? |
| 3 | Youth-v-experience or perhaps it 's time a woman won in Stockton South The three candidates squaring up to each other in the battle for Stockton South are quick to use the differences that lie between them as political ammunition . |
| 4 | Or perhaps it 's sort of some dressed up character . |
| 5 | Or perhaps it is Claudine you do not like ? ’ |
| 6 | Or perhaps it was Lord Rawlinson , the Lord Chancellor manque and former Attorney General ? |
| 7 | Or perhaps it was kind of Alan . |
| 8 | Or perhaps it was cows . |
| 9 | On the face of it , the shooting looked like another bloody event in Irish history , but perhaps it was its timing — on the same day that the government had sat for the first time — that intrigued him , or perhaps it was Joe 's words : that his father and the men like him had died for Ireland were being betrayed . |
| 10 | A penalty in the opening minutes of their game last October gave them 3 points , or perhaps it was goalkeeper , Nicky Hammond who saved the 3 points . |
| 11 | But then I , I went on to be secretary and more or less you 're loner again in another office . |
| 12 | But er they were always er well-remembered , and er w Spanish Civil War through , I suppose nowadays , you call them fringe newspapers , but there was this paper we used to get at the tim at the time It was n't the er Morning Star , or even it 's predecessor , erm but you got a paper and you sort of heard the other side . |
| 13 | ‘ They 've got something wrong with them , or sometimes it 's anger , ’ explains one pupil . |
| 14 | And when I asked her what she was doing with it , Emma — or maybe it was Sophie — told me that it had been dropped by two men , who were fighting each other behind some trees on the other side of the park . ’ |
| 15 | Just after eleven , more people began to arrive as the pubs chucked out and so Dosh and I ( or maybe it was Freddie ) moved upstairs where we 'd found another front room which had been stripped of furniture and somebody had run a pair of extra speakers off the disco in the lounge . |
| 16 | ‘ Or maybe it was Nationalists . ’ |
| 17 | Except that when Mrs Tremayne were dying , I thought I heard her say something about someone called Ash , or maybe it was Nash . |
| 18 | Or maybe it was Morgan Supersad . |
| 19 | Or maybe it was Friday . ’ |
| 20 | Or maybe there are populations of whales that never strand . |
| 21 | Either those laws , from Martin 's Act of 1822 to modern legislation against gin-traps … recognize that animals can be wronged or else they are laws of manners , dealing with the vice or virtue of the state 's citizens . |
| 22 | Either they are imperative : exigo , mentioned by Neratius , and mando and ( in particular ) impero , mentioned by Paul , are examples ; or else they are expressions of conviction ( if that ) , such as scio , mentioned by Neratius , or credo , mentioned by Ulpian . |
| 23 | The simplistic rule seems to be that almost everything in Europe ( in modem terms ) is either north-east-south-west or else it is east-west . |
| 24 | When this stops , either N is a goal or else it is fail and the task has no solution . |
| 25 | Tonight we are staying at St Peter 's seminary , and mercifully there are baths , and mattresses spread upon the floors , and nursing sisters in grey habits with gentle fingers and sympathetic cluckings and sterilized needles and soothing ointments and bandages . |
| 26 | I finally spotted a young man and a girl dressed as she 'd said she would be in shalwar kameez , a short tunic over long trousers , the traditional Muslim attire ; a cool white scarf around her head and a long coat , and luckily it was Yasmin . |
| 27 | Thalberg was interested but thought that it was not quite MGM 's thing as that studio was moving away from its earlier interest in realistic films towards glossier entertainment , and eventually it was Chaplin who arranged the film 's release through United Artists , although Vidor had to mortgage his every possession before firm backing was achieved . |
| 28 | And presumably there are rewards in having children anyway , as a women , quite apart from |
| 29 | These men — and overwhelmingly they were men — came from large , poor families , moved from job to job in catering and manual work and were unable to save out of their meagre earnings . |
| 30 | ‘ I doubt it , and besides we 're miles from anywhere . |