Example sentences of "[conj] does it [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Or does it generate a file ?
2 Does that ideal remain constant , or does it change form as you yourself grow and develop ?
3 Is knowledge lost from memory or does it change , becoming vague and imprecise , or distorted , or disconnected and fragmented ?
4 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 .
5 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 ?
6 Or does it go on and on and on and on ?
7 Is this couple 's problem simply different expectations regarding the frequency of sexual relations or does it go deeper ?
8 Does your spider feed on the prey at once or does it wrap it in sticky threads and feed on it later ?
9 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 ?
10 Does he face show courage and conviction — or does it betray guilt ?
11 Is it just a collection of stories or does it contain memories of real experiences ?
12 Is it music for his imagined funeral , or does it remind the singer that although unhappy , he is in love ?
13 And does this thing go away or does it stay for ?
14 Does it have a short time span or does it last over a period of time ?
15 Does the amp respond or does it buckle under the strain ?
16 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 ?
17 ‘ That does n't sound too awful — or does it mean you 'll be in purdah ? ’
18 Or does it mean that you have somehow glimpsed the anguish in me , or even guessed at the cause ?
19 Or does it mean that the problems of environmental degradation are being magnified and transferred to hitherto uncompromised regions ?
20 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 ?
21 Does this mean ‘ there being things one sees that are in fact blue ’ or does it mean ‘ one 's seeing things as blue ’ ?
22 Allowing the child to muck about , or does it mean free to express himself in his own childlike way , and not ape the adult 's way .
23 Or does it mean that the longer B text is an entirely different Doctor Faustus ?
24 Does ‘ the constitution ’ mean the make-up of the committee or does it mean the constitutionality of the committee ?
25 Or does it mean something else ?
26 Does that mean no more without development in the deposited greenbelt , as in the greenbelt as defined in the deposited greenbelt local plan , or does it mean no more unless it is hard up against that greenbelt ?
27 However , careful analysis shows that the meaning of this provision is still not clear : for instance , does " terminate … and recover … or retain " mean that the seller may either ( 1 ) terminate and recover or ( 2 ) retain , or does it mean that the seller may terminate and either ( 1 ) recover or ( 2 ) retain ?
28 Or does it leave work relationships unspecified ( Christianity ) ?
29 Does the phrase ‘ I Do Hereby exoner , acquit and simpliciter Discharge ’ mean any more than ‘ I Do Hereby Discharge ’ or even ‘ I Discharge ’ , or does it leave the layman wondering if the words contain some qualification to or extension of an absolute discharge , slipped in by a crafty lawyer to defeat the ends of justice ?
30 Or does it purport to describe the way the world is ?
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