Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sudden movement of a frightened myotonic goat trying to flee triggers a rapid stiffening of limbs , back and neck that either leaves the creature unable to move or causes it to topple over , legs rigid and outstretched . |
| 2 | Turn it off , or has it gone ? |
| 3 | Paulie , bring me in my , my or has it gone upstairs ? |
| 4 | Or has it got ta be on this line here ? |
| 5 | Have you just got to sort of like the , these open to interpretation , or has it got to be word for word ? |
| 6 | Is the energy demand in this country still increasing , or has it levelled out nowadays ? |
| 7 | Has it made him more docile and thus easier to control , or has it destabilised him ? |
| 8 | A person in possession of a moveable chattel ( e.g. a painting ) who loses it , or has it stolen from him or otherwise taken from him against his will can demand it back within five years from any person who then has possession of it [ Art . |
| 9 | Not that terrible assertion of the self , of what the self sees or imagines it sees or just sees in imagination . |
| 10 | Or does it generate a file ? |
| 11 | Does that ideal remain constant , or does it change form as you yourself grow and develop ? |
| 12 | Is knowledge lost from memory or does it change , becoming vague and imprecise , or distorted , or disconnected and fragmented ? |
| 13 | Two legs good or four wheels bad or does it depend who 's in the driving seat , after all who ever heard of a road sow . |
| 14 | Is it when a person needs help to lift a glass to his or her lips , or does it depend on the degree of dehydration ? |
| 15 | Or does it go on and on and on and on ? |
| 16 | Is this couple 's problem simply different expectations regarding the frequency of sexual relations or does it go deeper ? |
| 17 | Does your spider feed on the prey at once or does it wrap it in sticky threads and feed on it later ? |
| 18 | Is the aim simply to control inflation , or does the government wish also to affect output and employment , or does it want to control the exchange rate ? |
| 19 | Does he face show courage and conviction — or does it betray guilt ? |
| 20 | Is it just a collection of stories or does it contain memories of real experiences ? |
| 21 | Is it music for his imagined funeral , or does it remind the singer that although unhappy , he is in love ? |
| 22 | And does this thing go away or does it stay for ? |
| 23 | Does it have a short time span or does it last over a period of time ? |
| 24 | Does the amp respond or does it buckle under the strain ? |
| 25 | Or does it mean that if total incomes rise by 4 per cent and total profits by 5 per cent , all profits are subject to a levy of one-fifth of their increase over the previous period ? |
| 26 | ‘ That does n't sound too awful — or does it mean you 'll be in purdah ? ’ |
| 27 | Or does it mean that you have somehow glimpsed the anguish in me , or even guessed at the cause ? |
| 28 | Or does it mean that the problems of environmental degradation are being magnified and transferred to hitherto uncompromised regions ? |
| 29 | BEFORE RETURNING TO THE MUSIC , LET'S take time out to talk about the sound : does Denon 's painstaking work with these Savoy masters really represent an audible improvement or does it mean — as with some historic classical recordings that have been treated to ‘ NoNOISE ’ or ‘ Cedar ’ — merely reduced surface noise at the expense of the loss of the top end ( important ambient noise , feathery cymbals etc. ) and a tubby overall sound ? |
| 30 | Does this mean ‘ there being things one sees that are in fact blue ’ or does it mean ‘ one 's seeing things as blue ’ ? |