Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [pron] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he was a famous , rich , literary-establishment figure living in Antibes or somewhere they would all realize it . |
| 2 | If all Preston 's childhood friends had lined up against a wall , as when they were waiting to be picked for football , Preston would most likely have left William to pretty near the end and then put him at left back , or somewhere he would do the least damage to his own side . |
| 3 | I had no idea what life with a baby would be like and no idea how well or badly I would I would cope . |
| 4 | Or rather they would be if they had a side of slightly more than average demeanour . |
| 5 | Some of my former colleagues would agree that my recent work is unhistorical but on the contrary condemn it for this — or rather they would condemn it did they not resort to the easier course of dismissing it as the gutterings of a senile mind . |
| 6 | Or rather they can tell you that ‘ previous assumptions on the dark nature of this pigment can no longer be considered entirely operative ; indeed , we may be in total reversal scenario here , which is in line with expectations . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Or rather I would if you 'd give me the chance . ’ |
| 8 | I ca n't quite make out the items on the list , however many times I go over it , or rather I ca n't make out the rooms on the staircase , or the stairs on my son 's forehead . |
| 9 | He 's our lead singer , or rather I should say he was . |
| 10 | Or rather it would be a bit dishonest if I did n't . |
| 11 | Or rather it would give a possible base for the possible erection of two or three possible motives . |
| 12 | Or rather it will be if the health-care proposals come with a price tag that requires the taxpayer to finance an extra $100 billion or so of government spending a year . |
| 13 | And , of course , the man referred to as " Shakespeare " might have been Bacon , or rather he might have had the attributes associated with Bacon . |
| 14 | It is true that somebody has to appoint the Chief Inspector as the Lord Chancellor appoints the judges , but other than that there is not , or rather there should not be , any political interest in the functioning of AIB at all . |
| 15 | He further pondered two opposing maxims , Benjamin Franklin 's ‘ We must all hang together or assuredly we shall all hang separately ’ , and Karl Liebknecht 's ‘ The basic law of capitalism is you or I , not both you and I ’ . |
| 16 | For the next hour or thereabouts I shall be at the Burgers ’ house in Wood Lane . ’ |
| 17 | Rightly or wrongly they may feel unwilling or unable to adapt . |
| 18 | Or perhaps somebody would phone , desperate to get in touch with her . |
| 19 | Now these kinds of accounts ( or perhaps one might say failures to give an adequate account ? ) of women 's lives are implicitly divisive and threatening . |
| 20 | Or perhaps one might just narrow it a bit further than that and say well let's see how history is going in the first two years , or the O level history course , or something like that , and we would discuss well given that all these different people are involved in history or have a stake in it in some way , or are interested in it , and given that you 're only going to have a very limited amount of time to do anything in , how can you do something that would be genuinely useful to the school in looking at the history teaching and something that would have the support of the people involved so that it was n't threatening anybody but they felt there was something being genuinely helpful . |
| 21 | Should it be , ‘ Has it authority in all matters ? ’ , or should one ask a separate question regarding its authority in matters of taxation , or perhaps one should inquire separately concerning its authority in matters of corporate taxation and personal taxation ? |
| 22 | Those years had established — or perhaps one should say clarified — his entire political agenda . |
| 23 | Maybe they just ca n't bear to contemplate it , or perhaps they 'll just be forced to wait . |
| 24 | Or perhaps they would have the sense to be washing their hair when Esquire phones to ask them out . |
| 25 | This meant that the men on each farm , with the addition of certain seasonal workers like the company of sheep-shearers , agreed with the farmer to bring in the harvest on ‘ piecework ’ — so much per acre of crops ; or perhaps they would contract to get the harvest in during the period of a month from the time they started ; or instead of a month some agreements would state Twenty Four Fine Days . |
| 26 | But times have changed and chefs may not be able to get away with overcharging for simple dishes using relatively inexpensive ingredients for much longer … or perhaps they will . |
| 27 | Obair has also had reservations about private sector developments in West Belfast — or perhaps they should be called public sector developments with a private face . |
| 28 | ‘ Penny , this is Miss Broome — or perhaps we may call you Ianthe ? |
| 29 | Or perhaps we wo n't . |
| 30 | If that is what is intended , the objector would say , then constructivism is nothing more than a kind of behaviourism ( another attempt to replace the mental by the behavioural ) ; or perhaps we might lump it together with Marxist attempts to ‘ resolve ’ the mind-body problem in terms of ‘ praxis ’ . |