Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ All or nothing 's more our style , would n't you say , Robyn ? ’ |
| 2 | I spoke to Kevin on the phone yesterday but sadly he has chosen this weekend to go home to Dunsteld , when Mark & I are here at Drumstinchall . |
| 3 | If something or someone is deliberately hidden from us what does this lead us to expect ? |
| 4 | People all the time wish to pigeon-hole you … to say that I am totally a chat-show host or I am entirely a serious headmistress figure . |
| 5 | He obviously had never heard of the Order of Merit or I am quite sure he would have mentioned it at that time . |
| 6 | ‘ It is also an unbelievable chance for Germany to have the fifth most important tennis tournament in the world … a certainty also that tennis will continue there when Steffi Graf or I are no longer around . ’ |
| 7 | With a final piece of advice that I should climb the hill opposite La Valdieu the next day , I look my leave of the little group , wondering whether they or I were perhaps a little insane . |
| 8 | It could be , or I 'm just wondering if it 's actually squirrels , because although the , the excreta contains berries erm a squirrel will eat berries , it will also eat nuts and of course they do bury their nuts and I 've actually seen squirrels in other parts of the country digging holes and starting a bit of a larder and of course there are a lot of , of erm squirrels in Croydon so I think unless you actually see the animal you can only speculate that it is something small like a vole or , or a squirrel . |
| 9 | bit here and I thought god that so I thought right I 'm gon na change places in that seat but your father 's sitting on , alright , I said go in that back seat , just behind us there were there or I said or I 'm just coming to sit where you are , I said I ca n't do four hours sitting like this , I mean I 'd have been boss eyed before I got , well I was I , I , all say look at that cloud |
| 10 | or I 'm just seeing what he 'd said |
| 11 | All able-bodied people go on about how horrible the changing-room experience is — how awful because my bra is dirty , or I 'm too fat or too thin — but disabled girls : how do you even begin to assess your own emotions on entering a changing room with young able-bodied women , most of them slim but all saying , ‘ Oh , I 've got a horrible body ’ , when you 're in a wheelchair , just wanting to try on a pair of trousers ? |
| 12 | ‘ Or would I start screaming that I 'd left a soufflé in the oven , or forgotten to get the coat back from the cleaners , or I was too young to die … ’ |
| 13 | Either Melanie pushed some part of her anatomy against my leg or I was too close to the campfire . |
| 14 | An allowance in the nature of an attendance allowance ( or a financial loss allowance ) MAY be paid to a councillor in respect of his attendance at ANY conference or meeting which the council itself considers relates to the interests of the area ( other than one called in respect of a trade or business , or which is wholly or partly political ) . |
| 15 | We do n't know how many inhabitants there are , or which is early closing day , or whether we can see the sea from the windows . |
| 16 | Two novels , for example , which in other respects are very different , Claudio Piersanti 's Charles ( 1986 ) and the first of Aldo Busi 's three novels published to date , Seminar on Youth ( 1988 ) , have this in common : they both veer between an urban setting whose contemporaneity is underlined by its fashionableness and topicality ( Busi ) or which is vaguely futuristic ( Piersanti ) and a rural , provincial past which , though overtaken by the modern world , still remains extraordinarily alive . |
| 17 | In these cases , we may want to smooth to remove the effect of events which are unique or which are simply not the main trend in which we are interested ; it is good practice to plot the rough as well as the smooth values , to inspect exactly what has been discarded . |
| 18 | Solvent sniffing usually means getting ‘ high ’ by breathing in the fumes from butane , aerosols , glues or other products found around most people 's houses or which are easily available from shops . |
| 19 | Strict left-to-right strategies , while intuitively similar to the way we perceive our recognition of fluent speech , force computational systems to tackle immediately stretches of sound , which are of poor acoustic quality , or which are relatively unconstrained by higher level knowledge . |
| 20 | Related to this dependence is that many of the metals are imported from countries which either have a near-monopoly , are politically unstable or which are ideologically opposed to the capitalist West . |
| 21 | No matter how volatile the economy you seem to have divine protection , whether this is because you have saved for a rainy day or you are just downright lucky . |
| 22 | This is nearly as demanding as the main route so I 'd only do it if the tops are covered in mist or you are absolutely worn out . |
| 23 | ‘ Yes , Ellie , you do know , ’ he said quietly , in direct contrast to her stormy denial , ‘ and I can either believe that the letters were used merely as a passport for something else , or you are indeed a calculating little bitch intent only on causing pain . ’ |
| 24 | It 's been — delightful , and either you are a very good actress or you are genuinely innocent of guile . |
| 25 | Or you 're likely not to be able to do anything at all . |
| 26 | You 're either lying or you 're very naïve . |
| 27 | or you 're almost suicidal . |
| 28 | So were you born here moved to Malton , moved back here and then moved to Malton or you were here and they you moved to Malton when she lived there ? |
| 29 | Oh , well it 's either that or she 's just ignorant ! |
| 30 | Another symptom is writing numbers or letters backwards — again a common enough thing to do when a child is learning to write , particularly if he or she is left-handed , or perhaps dyslexic ; and probably most absurd of all , children who refer to television characters as real people are showing signs of abuse . |