Example sentences of "[det] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The terrified young Frenchman tried to answer Sharpe 's questions , but either he knew very little or else he was cleverly hiding what he did know . |
| 2 | All the available evidence also shows that these social class inequalities have declined very little or not at all , and , in some instances , they have increased over the years . |
| 3 | It may actually be used little or not at all in a particular interaction . |
| 4 | Emotionally , you still appear to be feeling somewhat torn and indecisive and the trouble is you have an enormous yearning to give while asking for very little or even nothing in return . |
| 5 | Abnormal development may occur if a protein is not made at the right time or place , or the protein is defective or if too little or too much is made . |
| 6 | Did you take too little or too much liquid on board ? |
| 7 | My open fire is erratic — having either too little or too much draw . |
| 8 | It would n't surprise me to hear it was locally referred to as the sugar sifter ( a metaphor at last ! ) , one of those useless gadgets dispensing too little or too much in cheap cafés . |
| 9 | I may feel guilty because my father died young , because I masturbate , because I earn too little or too much , because I have wind . |
| 10 | One unconsidered move and too little or too much colour could give the complexion of a rustic the appearance of a corpse and transform the face of an angel into the countenance of a harlot . |
| 11 | This is a good way of doing things in that it enables what is effectively a limitless number of different codes to be used , with as little or as much data as desired being attached to each code . |
| 12 | One of the major objectives of the account was to reapportion credit within the movement since much of it had been misappropriated by those who had done little or only appeared after emancipation in 1834 . |
| 13 | there are no limits on how little or how much you pay-in , but once the balance on your account reaches £100 your should think of opening a Saver Plus Account which offers a higher rate of interest . |
| 14 | Prior to their preparing a Four Yearly Report , however , for the majority , formal review of this kind has been unusual : more than half claim that little or very little formal review activity took place in their school before the LEA scheme was introduced . |
| 15 | The choice between searching for the least or most distant neighbours may depend on the experimental ( or even presentational ) needs because in the former case the algorithm finds more detailed and possibly informationally redundant order of probes , while in the latter case it finds a minimal set of probes connected by clones spanning large regions of the genome . |
| 16 | Hence the insistence on ‘ ethnicity ’ and linguistic differences , each or both sometimes combined with religion . |
| 17 | I could think of a way to feed a family of four on 50 pence each or less |
| 18 | ‘ Do you mean each or together ? ’ |
| 19 | Yes , well yes surely make that or otherwise you , if you give up everything . |
| 20 | But perhaps she was a year or two older than that or even more . |
| 21 | But I ca n't see how any of them was physically capable of setting a trap like that or even knowing how to do it . ’ |
| 22 | In East Anglia people either in the on their pub lunches they either throw themselves on to that or on to treacle pudding . |
| 23 | Yes , well , you say ‘ meant to be ’ and you 're right to say ‘ meant to be ’ , because , of course , Cabinet government is only a layer of the Government and there is a kind of inner Cabinet government , whether it 's called that or not , under different prime ministers — it always tends to develop . |
| 24 | And , whether you believe that or not that is not effecting what I 'm saying today and whether it 's accurate or not ! |
| 25 | Will he accept that or not ? |
| 26 | If you have any views on whether MPs should be doing that or not , give us a call as well . |
| 27 | Manslaughter is the offence committed when one person causes the death of another by an act which is unlawful and which is also dangerous , dangerous in the sense that it is an act which all sober and reasonable people would inevitably realise must subject the victim to the risk of some harm resulting whether the defendant realised that or not . |
| 28 | You used to buy the I do n't know whether they do that or not now . |
| 29 | Do you like that or not ? |
| 30 | I do n't know whether you 'd like that or not , you might do , he got er , er , an Oscar for it , Daniel Day Lewis |