Example sentences of "[conj] [indef pn] [is] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you own or lease property where no-one is living you may have to pay a standard community charge in that area in addition to the personal charge in the area you live . |
| 2 | That way little or nothing is revealed . |
| 3 | Modern beliefs , one might think , ought to be in the rationalist mould of the Enlightenment , but little or nothing is taught about the psychology of consciousness in schools , except in terms of religious studies . |
| 4 | In medical schools a great deal is taught about the medical and other consequences of high alcohol consumption but little or nothing is taught about alcoholism , the addictive disease . |
| 5 | If ‘ story ’ suggests a narrative sequence towards which Double Or Nothing is gesturing , Federman it the same time questions each fictional possibility so thoroughly that the only reliable sequence becomes the narrative voice which is constantly shifting in person and tone . |
| 6 | In the old language andegari meant hawthorn , and a bush of that type probably at one time marked the external borders of the city of Mediolanum , although little or nothing is known of that first town . |
| 7 | At present little or nothing is known about these patients . |
| 8 | Where nothing is written it takes time to create a document which is genuinely useful to many of us , both as a verification of our struggle and a signpost to future strategies for our art work . |
| 9 | A city ‘ where nothing is wasted , costly and luxurious city though it be , but where wonderful human ants creep out of holes , and pick up every scrap ’ , OMF i 12 . |
| 10 | The second reason given seems a little odd at first : a specific list of prohibited practices can only increase the degree of uncertainty for firms compared to the current arrangements , where nothing is specified . |
| 11 | ‘ Have you ever thought why it gets dark each evening ? ’ asks Phil one day , as they leave one coffee bar where nothing is happening , and walk to another , to find out if anything is happening there . |
| 12 | ( b ) The pressures on the police may be such that they will try to avoid keeping records especially where nothing is found or they feel that no request for a copy of the record will be made . |
| 13 | Figure 2.2 reflects an organisation without a strict hierarchy where everyone is working quite independently . |
| 14 | After all in an age where everyone is becoming more environmentally aware , perhaps it is only fitting that even artists are getting into recycling . |
| 15 | There appear to be no special forms or procedures which are required to be adopted in the county court where someone is found guilty of contempt in the face of the court and committed to prison under section 118 of the County Courts Act 1984 , although no doubt , if such an event were to occur , the court would follow the general approach required by Ord. 29 , r.1(5) of the County Court Rules 1981 ( as amended ) which applies in the case of committal for breach of injunctions . |
| 16 | They must have been on to her or somebody 's given her away , one or t' other , 'cos it must have been a set-up cop . |
| 17 | or somebody 's looking for this or somebody 's looking for that |
| 18 | or somebody 's looking for this or somebody 's looking for that |
| 19 | You 've got to look at them from different angles , see if there 's any smoke bellowing out from anywhere , or somebody 's hanging out of a window . |
| 20 | Five and six in the morning , and you 're always waking up in the middle of the night cos you do n't know , you know , if summat 's happened or summat 's gon na happen . |
| 21 | Erm you must have heard of the phrases of poncing , where somebody is operating a prostitute and if they do n't get a required amount of money a week or er er an amount of money where they consider it sufficient , they 'll probably go and beat them up or something like that . |
| 22 | I think it 's a difficult subject er in one where somebody 's starting up own business who has n't erm had any experience before |
| 23 | THERE IS a paranoiac frisson , and more than a little insight , to be had from the thought that we humans are not really in control of our own fates , and that someone or something is using us . |
| 24 | Where something is seen to change ? |
| 25 | If it occurs at the beginning of a committee meeting where something is going to be pushed through and the agenda manipulated it can provoke the reaction , " … hypocrites " . |
| 26 | A short story can use a crisis , the piece of a life where something is happening . |
| 27 | .. I do n't know what this is founded in , but I believe that there must be some kind of basic system of balance , where everything 's weighed up and when all the pain we 've created in the world gets salved because we live again . |
| 28 | I know that some knitters prefer to work from a written patter , where everything is explained in full throughout the whole pattern . |
| 29 | We have a get rich quick philosophy where everything is geared to maximum profits . |
| 30 | Pynchon 's characters are constantly driven by the impulse to locate themselves within larger schemes which would authenticate their own experience , but waver between the appalling extremes of total randomness ( where no pattern is discernible ) and paranoia ( where everything is subsumed into pattern ) . |