Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [pron] [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or perhaps they were still wandering in that long stretch of country which lay between New York and the State of Wisconsin ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I can not resist the feeling that the Government 's extraordinary surrender yesterday to German bullying over the recognition of Croatia had something to do with the need to appease German public opinion , which is turning nasty on the whole process — or perhaps it was just sucking up to the right hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. |
| 4 | Or perhaps it was just shock at seeing me without the gag . |
| 5 | Or perhaps he 's here to decide what to do with the mill . |
| 6 | Or perhaps he was just trying to find out what thallium was . |
| 7 | Or perhaps he was merely expressing caution about Romania 's chances of escaping from the Soviet orbit . |
| 8 | It 's very interesting to note that in contemporary political philosophy there is almost no room left for democratic decision making because in most theories that we 're given , more or less everything is already decided at a constitutional level I mean think of theory of justice , it 's the theory of justice that decides the basic nature of a constitution so the role of members of a government is simply to interpret and apply the constitution so they can make the most efficient tax policies given the basic constitution , but no individual has the authority to challenge that constitution and change it by democratic means . |
| 9 | This would lead , or so it was widely feared , to a change in labour market behaviour . |
| 10 | Whether or not they are easily found |
| 11 | and it will take some of those runners … a few days … a few weeks to recover but believe it or not they 're already talking about and planning next year 's race |
| 12 | Companies were asked whether or not they were already selling to the Japanese market . |
| 13 | A third group were idealists and enlisted with the Artists ' Rifles and other forces , whether or not they were physically suited for fighting . |
| 14 | A third group were idealists and enlisted with the Artists ' Rifles and other forces , whether or not they were physically suited for fighting . |
| 15 | The distress suffered by individuals and their families was obviously a matter of concern for everybody , whether or not they were directly affected . |
| 16 | Even more strikingly , the ERP will vary according to whether or not we are selectively attending to it . |
| 17 | Why the fury , then ? she fretted , and then started to have terrible gnawing doubts about whether or not she was truly dining with him that night . |
| 18 | Probably the most useful indicator on a shoot is the one which shows whether or not you are actually recording pictures — it 's easy to forget whether you have just pressed the camera control on or off ! |
| 19 | Now we want you to add your views to future Plans , whether or not you are directly affected by the proposals . |
| 20 | Do not put your head tentatively round the door as if to check whether or not you are really wanted . |
| 21 | Yeah no but I mean passive smoking is just that 's , that 's , that 's the way that self erm s smoking is so selfish because you ca n't get away , you know , whether you 're not smoking or not you 're still getting the worst from it . |
| 22 | Whether or not it 's eventually privatised , it will still need Government support . |
| 23 | I think they can be very useful because a lot of having monarchy brings , you know , American tourists , a big influx into the country , and whether that 's good or not it 's certainly brings money into the country , so that from that point of view it 's quite good to have them . |
| 24 | The use of tests also depends upon certain assumptions about the nature of the data , such as whether or not it is normally distributed , is of roughly equal within-group variability and reflects independent observations . |
| 25 | This will therefore include a proportion of the amount paid to the director by S1 , whether or not it is actually included in the management charge . |
| 26 | A director whose functions demand the possession of some technical ability would accordingly be required to comply with the standard of the reasonably competent practitioner of the expertise in question , whether or not it was actually possessed . |
| 27 | The main complaint was that Microsoft offered large discounts to PC makers who agreed to pay for a copy of MS-DOS or Windows for every machine they sold , whether or not it was actually loaded with one . |
| 28 | But the results of Fig. 5.2 show that the degree of suppression evoked by a test stimulus does not depend upon whether or not it was appetitively reinforced during the first stage . |
| 29 | We 've got this erm , er , some one is going to monitor a proportion of work that you have recorded as transcripts anyway , and it will be a research director or A.D. I 'm just wondering whether we can comply with this now . |
| 30 | So here or here or here it is really zero We can never say it actually is |