Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [pron] [vb mod] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | He 's our lead singer , or rather I should say he was . |
| 4 | ‘ Penny , this is Miss Broome — or perhaps we may call you Ianthe ? |
| 5 | If that is what is intended , the objector would say , then constructivism is nothing more than a kind of behaviourism ( another attempt to replace the mental by the behavioural ) ; or perhaps we might lump it together with Marxist attempts to ‘ resolve ’ the mind-body problem in terms of ‘ praxis ’ . |
| 6 | For those who know how , doing yoga for half an hour in the morning , or meditating in a darkened room for ten minutes just before giving the speech will assist , or perhaps it will require nothing more than taking a deep breath before you speak . |
| 7 | ‘ Or perhaps you would like me to inveigle her out of her self-imposed purdah and come up here instead of you going down to Four Winds . ’ |
| 8 | Why not visit the Amphitheatre and watch one of the exciting International Shows or perhaps you will find something else to do — there is so much going on from Fashion Shows to Jazz Festivals . |
| 9 | Yeah actually , I 'd be interested if someone sitting on the planning committee , or perhaps a director erm , yeah or perhaps you could tell me , er , why why if the planning committee members are so concerned about this , did they grant the planning permission ? |
| 10 | Or perhaps I ought to say it was her spirit , since it resembled not at all any portrait that could have been painted . |
| 11 | Unions have turned professional , serving their members ' interests in the way that members , or perhaps I should call them customers , demand . |
| 12 | Or perhaps I should say she did not trust us with everything she knew . |
| 13 | It sounds to me as though your problem is medical rather than cosmetic and I would strongly recommend that you seek the advice of your G.P. There may be a simple remedy such as a special diet and vitamin supplements or perhaps he 'll refer you to a hair specialist . |
| 14 | In a year 's time or less she would land herself a good job , and a place to live . |
| 15 | Would it hold up for the half-minute or so it would take me to drive across ? |
| 16 | Over the last six weeks or so I 'll tell you the places I 've been and the people I 've seen in the National Health Service . |
| 17 | Every three months or so I 'd clear it of all the wonder remedies he 'd accumulated , but within a week he 'd have discovered some other miracle medicine . |
| 18 | " Every week or so I 'd see them come in for their beef ration . |
| 19 | Perhaps in another month or so I will find I am one among 50 runners for the job . ’ |
| 20 | Thus , for example , when asked whether or not they would describe their own redundancy as genuinely voluntary , the oldest group ( those over 65 when interviewed ) were much more likely than the rest to say ‘ yes ’ ( 83 per cent compared with 46 per cent of those aged 55–59 and 65 per cent of those aged 60–64 ) . |
| 21 | My right hon. Friend 's constituents were often paying £2,000 on their houses , whether or not they could afford it , and whether or not they were widows or pensioners . |
| 22 | We must not impose minimum wages on businesses , whether or not they can afford them . |
| 23 | When information technology users are in doubt about what to buy , who to buy it from , and whether or not they can afford it , they are apt to buy nothing at all . |
| 24 | Sally is not sure whether or not she should admit her feelings to this woman . |
| 25 | Something like that , trying to remember now what it was , sixteen hundred , sixteen hundred that was it and it says your credit limit is sixteen , sixteen , you could spend up to sixteen hundred pounds , whether you got it or not you can spend it , so we said if we 're gon na get this computer because you get these Air Miles out of it , you know , every ten pounds you get an Air Mile , well if he 's getting a computer over a thousand pounds you know with all the paraphernalia that goes with it , well that 's a lot of Air Miles there , well we said we 'll get it through Access , but there is n't , our credit limit on Access is n't enough to pay for the computer , sixteen hundred it 's more than sixteen hundred , in , in the long , once he 's got his printer and God knows what you know , so I phoned them up and he said erm is it possible to adjust the limit upwards ? |
| 26 | having this whole thing out , right , she 'd pay right , I bring home wage , right believe it or not I 'll tell you it 's about between a hundred and eleven and a hundred and fourteen pounds a week , that 's forty and ten , that 's a hundred and fifty pounds a week , right , now if she got to pay poll tax out of that , right , what she 's getting which is twenty odd pounds a month |
| 27 | It also depends on whether or not I can tell you what you want to know . |
| 28 | My argument for functionalism is therefore critically dependent on whether or not I can convince you that progress in one of these areas — cognitive neuropsychology — is unlikely to be simply an illusion . |
| 29 | I know what I feel like listening to , it 's just whether or not I can find it . |
| 30 | This may sound ridiculous , but I have recently met a very nice man , the same age as me , similar tastes , sense of humour , not exactly good-looking but perfectly presentable , and I 'm wondering whether or not I should marry him . |