Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [be] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BARLEY AND VEGETABLE SOUP The bonus of this homely soup is the brevity of its cooking time : 40 minutes or so is all that 's needed for a cheering bowl of soup from all-fresh ingredients . |
| 2 | But a global cooling of only five degrees or so was enough to produce the Ice Ages . |
| 3 | Where exactly were these love bites ? |
| 4 | Whether he moved them healthily or unhealthily is another matter . |
| 5 | John thought him ‘ a most remarkable boy , and certainly the most talented artist I 've yet met in S.A. If he can design costumes or not is another question . |
| 6 | Whether it makes good history or not is another matter . |
| 7 | It 's a fairly low risk erm threat at the moment , air strikes are cheap er they 're not particularly dangerous whether they 're effective or not is another matter , er and there 's no immediate come back on the domestic scene because no one is expecting any one state to be the saviour in that particular situation . |
| 8 | Whether you will or not is another matter , that , try it again , and no faster than that , very , very sturdy , very sturdy . |
| 9 | Whether he does it or not is another issue is n't it . |
| 10 | I mean whether we think it 's necessary or not is another matter . |
| 11 | But you , even if you acquire many possessions and need still others and whether you will or not are more poverty stricken than I am . |
| 12 | Whether we get it or not 's another matter . |
| 13 | The sector that has held up best is industrial where oversupply is less of a problem . |
| 14 | They were sweeter ’ , she thought , ‘ than ever was any sweet earthly thing that she smelt before ’ . |
| 15 | We 've just done a fortnight in the States promoting this region erm to the agents of the erm people who , you know , really book holidays , and one of the things that emerged more than ever was this comradeship , you know , we are together in this erm and what a great country you 've got over there . |
| 16 | Our screen , then , is no colourless obstacle , but a bewilderingly decorated surface that constantly draws our attention , tempting us with the thought that here is all . |
| 17 | I have no hesitation , therefore , in speaking of the Church itself as ‘ sacrament ’ in the sense that here is this broken body which is called by his name , I meet him and he indwells it . |
| 18 | Willy-nilly they are forced to concede that here is some fact or reality to which all else that they believe must necessarily conform . |
| 19 | ‘ I do , ’ said Finn , recoiling , and Lydia thought that here was another ludicrous irony : that the less you were in love with someone the more you could enchant and ensnare them . |
| 20 | But neither do such concepts reduce to the corresponding predicates , nor indeed are such predicates entirely dispensable . |
| 21 | Nor indeed were many unmodified humans nearly as robust as the cadets had long since become . |
| 22 | Neither the servants nor the king were amused by Pecham 's decree ; nor indeed were some bishops who had themselves risen to the episcopate on a mounting tide of benefices with and without cure of souls , and who were even now rewarding their own diocesan officers with a plurality of cures . |
| 23 | The Directive contains several references to ‘ the conservation of the countryside ’ although nowhere is any definition given of precisely what was meant by this term . |
| 24 | None of the LEAs admitted publishing league tables of the schools ' results , and rarely was any punitive action taken in relation to schools that were performing poorly . |
| 25 | And so is that instant of anticipation when it seems that two bodies must collide , brutally , and one is helpless to stop it . |
| 26 | Ownership of cars is also well up , and so is that of telephones . |
| 27 | And so is that six hundred pound if they want to buy both sides . |
| 28 | Gail 's in , and so is that Lisa . |
| 29 | We have already seen that it is common to feel tired about lunchtime ( the ‘ post-lunch dip ’ ) ; this is about 12 hours after retiring and so is another example of an ultradian rhythm with a period less than 24 hours . |
| 30 | As in a laminar flow ( Section 11.7 ) , the viscous term can be divided into two parts : one is essentially negative and thus represents viscous dissipation ; the other ( usually small ) integrates to zero and so is another energy transfer process . |