Example sentences of "[conj] [conj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A is male ( or so B believes ) ; A is acknowledged by B to have a higher social status than B ( or to be playing the role of a superior ) Obvious to the point of tediousness though some of these inferences may be , 26 they are not , on a reasonable circumscription of semantic theory , part of the semantic content of the three sentences . |
| 2 | An answer that assumes that X and Y have persuaded Z to steal , or that Z has stolen , will therefore miss the mark . |
| 3 | This allows the meeting to ask questions , comment or review what happened at previous meetings and to check that decisions have been carried out , or that matters have progressed in the manner envisaged . |
| 4 | Remember , too , when acting for a seller on a sale by auction to attend the sale itself to answer any questions that a prospective buyer may raise on the title or the special conditions — and be wary of the questioner who seeks to suggest that the title is faulty or that restrictions prohibit development , etc , in the hope of abating the bids offered . |
| 5 | It argued either that Lorton trusted him still , or that Lorton had in mind some devious idea of framing him . |
| 6 | Charges that there had been no good times in England since William came in , or that William had ruined the nation , were fairly common . |
| 7 | However , if it were merely the scale of the transactions that was unlawful or that payments had been made out of the wrong fund , it may be the council could be forced to honour the contracts . |
| 8 | The requirement of leave is designed to weed out frivolous , vexatious , or hopeless cases ; but there is no reason to think that claims based on private law rights will not sometimes be frivolous , vexatious , or hopeless or that claims based on public law rights are particularly prone to be frivolous , vexatious or hopeless . |
| 9 | Nor is there any reason to think that claims based on private law rights will not sometimes hold up public programmes if they are allowed to be brought after the short time-limit in Order 53 ; or that claims based on public law rights will necessarily cause trouble if brought after that time limit has expired . |
| 10 | He had never supposed that it was publishable or that Emmie cherished ambitions of that kind . |
| 11 | Some of us constantly tell stories where we depict ourselves as having the qualities we secretly think we lack or that others need reminding of . |
| 12 | Presumably , too , A sets up the defence of necessity ; we are not expressly told that there was ( or that A thought there was ) no other way of saving the leader 's life , but this is a fair inference from the question . |
| 13 | It must be stated at this point that it is not intended here to suggest that there is a conspiracy on the part of doctors to deprive patients of their rights , or that doctors act out of ill will . |
| 14 | His explanation is not , as is often supposed , the fact that in Britain multi-employer agreements failed to determine actual earnings levels in the workplace , or that employers have come to prefer independent negotiations . |
| 15 | That she was looking her best , or that Ven appreciated her appearance was made thrillingly clear a minute later , when she entered the sitting-room . |
| 16 | The DP Information Office on April 3 denied foreign press reports that Berisha had requested Alia 's resignation , or that Alia had asked for " immunity " in return . |
| 17 | It might be interpreted as saying that V has a mode of access to his own brain different from any modes of access to V 's brain available to BS ; or that V has a different mode of access to the external world , and that this constitutes the difference between him and BS . |
| 18 | In the Paris that Proust describes or that Manet painted in La Musique aux Tuileries , sociability was mainly intraclass , in a plurality of narrowly circumscribed public realms . |
| 19 | Because there 's quite a list of them and I think they explain many of the descriptive characteristics of o of goods or that Freud refers to . |
| 20 | To have such ‘ scientific knowledge ’ of , say , the facts that man is the only animal with a sense of humour , that gold dissolves in aqua regia , or that triangles have angles equal to two right angles , is to know that these things must be so and can not be otherwise . |
| 21 | Indeed , a soft conventionalist would be able to deny that there were gaps even if lawyers disagreed about these abstract conventions , even if many lawyers denied that statutes make law or that precedents exert some influence over later decisions . |
| 22 | How , for example , could an outsider know that normative consensus in the speech community does not permit backing in velar environments or fronting in most other environments , or that sonorants followed by voiceless obstruents predict a front vowel ? |
| 23 | We often read statements or suggestions that writer X " favours " , " is fond of " , " tends to use language feature Y : for example , that Hemingway tends to use short sentences , or that Johnson favours abstract vocabulary . |
| 24 | My own observations leave me in no doubt that either there are very few sand-eels left in inshore waters ( and therefore accessible to feeding sea-birds ) or that sand-eels have dramatically changed their habits . |
| 25 | This is not to suggest the players did not take the plays they performed seriously or that authors wrote any old thing as long as it pleased . |
| 26 | No one ever explained what the danger zone was , or that people living outside the no-go area might still be in danger of contamination . |
| 27 | And , we also face with a a certain stance there where if people blame , er , turn round to us and say there 's a draft here because er , the air conditioning 's working they do n't wan na sit in a draft . |
| 28 | Nobody could think where until Scott-Scobie said cheerily : ‘ Buy'em all over , gun shops and so on . |
| 29 | Offer expires 30th November 1991 or until stocks last . |
| 30 | To this end she stays a virgin , or practises abstinence , or contraception , or if things get further in spite of her best endeavours — for both men and her own desires are importunate — terminates . |