Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or rather it contributes by setting the question in a certain way . |
| 2 | ( This is a borderline case between normal and deviant justification , or rather it points to one of the many ambiguities in my formulation of the normal justification thesis . ) |
| 3 | It is related to the hedgehog , or rather it belongs to the same family of insectivores . |
| 4 | It is simply a rule of the language , or rather it follows from its basic rules , that one speaks misleadingly if one utters or assents to that statement without having that belief . |
| 5 | For the first time the Bill gives galleries powers of disposal , subject to certain conditions — or rather it gives such powers to the Tate and the national portrait gallery , but not to the Wallace collection or the national gallery . |
| 6 | You ca n't really ask the government to do something about the logging when it 's owned by themselves , I mean , or rather it 's controlled by the powers of the country and the only way to do something there is to boycott their timber , not to pressure the government , and we 're back to , you know , back to square one . |
| 7 | Well , this old bell must have fallen off a ship , or perhaps it got washed out here in a flood . |
| 8 | Clearly Littlewoods , the pools group and retailer , does not believe in either solution — or perhaps it does not really want to sell . |
| 9 | Or perhaps it does . |
| 10 | That was what it was , a fit , during which something in her burst and she lost control of herself — or perhaps it had had something to do with the terrible heat . |
| 11 | Or perhaps it had been clear a long time before that . |
| 12 | Or perhaps it had been a present from a — he swallowed , feeling sweaty with embarrassment — from a lover or something . |
| 13 | Or perhaps it had . |
| 14 | She seemed to have completely forgotten her rage , or perhaps it had been channelled into a more dangerous , calculating form , thought Isabel in dread . |
| 15 | Or perhaps it had never existed . |
| 16 | Or perhaps it followed from that carefully nurtured tradition of political and religious toleration which was seen even by foreigners as a distinctively English achievement in the era of parliamentary government . |
| 17 | Or perhaps it belonged to a child who was under rubble . |
| 18 | Or perhaps it proves that women tend to try to be attractive to upstage one another and they completely forget that men are going to find them attractive too . ’ |
| 19 | Or perhaps it 's been moved . |
| 20 | The shame of it may have caused the slight stroke that overtook him , or perhaps it preceded the disaster . |
| 21 | After the robot has accumulated several observations ( I , J ) in R , the joint motors are switched off and the software chooses new joint angles J' at random , or perhaps it chooses J' in a poorly explored region . |
| 22 | Ten days on the ocean gave him a few chances to visit the cabins of single women , but until they arrived in New York , there were no places to escape once the liaison ended , however passionately , half-heartedly , or ephemerally it had begun . |
| 23 | I wish to be at home with you indeed , indeed-my Joy is only in the bud here I am like that Tree , which fronts me — The Sun shines bright & warm , as if it were summer — but it is not summer & so it shines on leafless boughs . |
| 24 | For a month or so it looked as if he had succeeded in defusing the time bomb , but soon Catholic leaders were arguing that nothing was really changing . |
| 25 | All the mosquitoes in the orchard were in my trench last night , or so it seemed ! |
| 26 | To adopt her favourite adverbs , everything had been ‘ totally and utterly ’ transformed , or so it seemed . |
| 27 | The Land Campaign , or so it seemed to the Conservatives , threatened to wipe out those gains at a time when the party showed no signs of an electoral recovery elsewhere . |
| 28 | After ten minutes or so it seemed to end satisfactorily . |
| 29 | Finally , after a desert journey of Lawrencian proportions — or so it seemed — we reached the base of Ingólfshöfdi . |
| 30 | The contrast was stark , an area devoid of anything green , or so it seemed from the air . |