Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he was a famous , rich , literary-establishment figure living in Antibes or somewhere they would all realize it . |
| 2 | One of the defining characteristics of a public good is non-eccludability : once the benefit is produced , it is accessible to everyone , however much or little they contributed to the result . |
| 3 | When the beak could hold no more , they disappeared into the depths of a thicket where presumably they had a well-hidden nest of young . |
| 4 | The difference in the popular vote was less dramatic : for the CPP , 398 141 ( plus five uncontested seats , where presumably they could have had a landslide ) ; for the combined opposition , 299 116 votes . |
| 5 | How well or badly they function . |
| 6 | The boats are there to serve Lappish communities , or rather they were there . |
| 7 | Now they are two a penny — or rather they were until 1990 . |
| 8 | Governments come and governments go ( or rather they do n't ) , pop idols streak through the firmament and disappear , but there is one constant in a topsy-turvy world , the beacon of truth and clarity that is the NME . |
| 9 | Or rather they seemed to be . ’ |
| 10 | Or rather they can tell you that ‘ previous assumptions on the dark nature of this pigment can no longer be considered entirely operative ; indeed , we may be in total reversal scenario here , which is in line with expectations . ’ |
| 11 | Or rather they did . |
| 12 | Or rather they 've given our county councillors a bloody nose by throwing them out , and the councillors are taking it out on us . |
| 13 | Or rather they would be if they had a side of slightly more than average demeanour . |
| 14 | The standard wines from the estate are not to be sniffed at — or rather they repay careful nosing , especially the unusually ripe but fresh and balanced Pinot Blanc ( £5.49 ) , and the highly perfumed Muscat ( £6.99 ) . |
| 15 | Some of my former colleagues would agree that my recent work is unhistorical but on the contrary condemn it for this — or rather they would condemn it did they not resort to the easier course of dismissing it as the gutterings of a senile mind . |
| 16 | ‘ That was my business partner Paul ; he and his wife are here — or rather they 're almost here — they 're stuck on the wrong side of your jeep . |
| 17 | The fact is that for most children maths has been taught badly or rather they have learnt it badly for one reason or another , so there is a need for , for an improvement or a change , so the idea that if children can understand something this will help them to remember it or to make it more real to them , this does seem to be a shift over the last generation . |
| 18 | Thoughts of a family scandal crossed her confused mind until she heard us — or rather them — talking fluent French . |
| 19 | It all comes down to practical implementation of flexible working hours and job sharing , so that women working in the nursing profession do not have to follow male patterns of employment , where eventually they find that combining family responsibility with work is simply too difficult , and they leave . |
| 20 | Rightly or wrongly they may feel unwilling or unable to adapt . |
| 21 | ‘ Should we feed it , her or perhaps them ? ’ |
| 22 | But times have changed and chefs may not be able to get away with overcharging for simple dishes using relatively inexpensive ingredients for much longer … or perhaps they will . |
| 23 | Perhaps people realise that in England these women are ultimately powerless , so they feel there is no point in helping them , or perhaps they think that the sons are to a certain extent justified , or may be it is just a matter of people not having the time or energy to do anything about it . |
| 24 | Or perhaps they sort through the plastic bag of pubic hairs they keep specially to place on the side of your bath before you check in ? |
| 25 | Or perhaps they did n't actually do any work at all . |
| 26 | I think they sensed in me a possible convert to their beliefs , merely because I was curious , or perhaps they genuinely liked me — I do n't know . |
| 27 | Somehow I must have missed the original LPs ( or perhaps they were never released this side of the Atlantic ) , but here are Jean-Pierre Rampal , Isaac Stern , Yo-Yo Ma mixing it up with Japanese instrumentalists , playing traditional oriental music alongside pieces by Yamada , Miyagi , and Yoshizawa , amongst others . |
| 28 | Archosaurs , the forerunners of dinosaurs , also probably lost heat through their surface skin , or perhaps they had air sacs beneath the skin to effect further cooling , and which also may have made them lighter on their feet . |
| 29 | But manufacturers can sometimes move the goal posts to suit their own ends — or perhaps they were oblivious to them from the start . |
| 30 | Or perhaps they were still wandering in that long stretch of country which lay between New York and the State of Wisconsin ? |