Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [pron] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or rather I know that happiness waits here for those who know where to look . |
| 2 | Nenna had forgotten about Gordon , or rather she assumed that he must have gone away , but he had not . |
| 3 | As every woman knows , her hair is her crowning glory , or rather she knows that it should be , but there are those of us who are unhappily aware that , too often , our looks fall down on the job . |
| 4 | It all comes down to practical implementation of flexible working hours and job sharing , so that women working in the nursing profession do not have to follow male patterns of employment , where eventually they find that combining family responsibility with work is simply too difficult , and they leave . |
| 5 | Rightly or wrongly we believed that as long as we were discriminated in every walk of life it would be absurd to pretend that everything was OK in rugby and play against the English and then go back to the township . |
| 6 | Perhaps people realise that in England these women are ultimately powerless , so they feel there is no point in helping them , or perhaps they think that the sons are to a certain extent justified , or may be it is just a matter of people not having the time or energy to do anything about it . |
| 7 | Or perhaps it proves that women tend to try to be attractive to upstage one another and they completely forget that men are going to find them attractive too . ’ |
| 8 | Or perhaps he knew that Warnham and Calcraft in Buckingham 's retinue were really the King 's agents . ’ |
| 9 | All the lots are unoccupied , or so she thinks until a pair of green plastic curtains suddenly swishes around the car , enfolding them in a cave of green plastic gloom and she becomes aware of other cars and bodies breathing behind green silences . |
| 10 | Even when as in the Act 2 aria for Medea 's servant , Neris , he attempts a flowing canzonetta and decks it with a distinctive bassoon obligato , he lets the number go on far too long , or so it seems when as here the bassoon roars out in determined competition with the mezzo , Claire Powell . |
| 11 | Even when as in the Act 2 aria for Medea 's servant , Neris , he attempts a flowing canzonetta and decks it with a distinctive bassoon obligato , he lets the number go on far too long , or so it seems when as here the bassoon roars out in determined competition with the mezzo , Claire Powell . |
| 12 | Sometimes the photographs seemed exactly the same , or so it appeared until , somewhere in the frame , I would realise that a rock had rolled a few feet or yards , a tree was missing , a scarp subtly altered , and one had the sense of some immensely leisured , tranquil calibration of infinity . |
| 13 | Gangs of men were at work trying to rescue the contents of the burning shacks , going from one to another , putting out the fires ; or so I thought till with a shock it came to me that these were no rescuers but incendiaries , that the battle I saw them waging was not with the flames but with the rain . |
| 14 | Peering between the uprights of the gate , I saw that the horse stood before Frankenstein 's gate harnessed to a phaeton — or so I believe that type of carriage was called ; it was open and had four wheels . |
| 15 | Touch-legering is not necessary , or so I think when the line is snatched from my fingers and the rod slams over from a vicious bite . |
| 16 | After fifty yards or so he sensed that something was wrong . |
| 17 | The Purchaser will normally expect warranties from all Vendors — whether or not they worked or will work in the business . |
| 18 | At the present time , apart from Part IV Licences ( Restaurant and Residential Licences ) , the Licensing Justices have complete discretion as to whether or not they grant or renew a drinks licence . |
| 19 | They know that they will get their allotted portion of time on the news , whether or not they say or do anything newsworthy . |
| 20 | Whether or not one feels that , by modern standards , Mrs Sherwood 's attitude was a healthy one , the fact remains that , despite the loss of a second child in India , she and her husband were able to return to England with their faith unimpaired , and settled down to live useful and active lives . |
| 21 | And at the end of the day then , you have to weigh up whether or not you decide that even though , if you like in the strictest financial terms , it is not profitable to open the cinema and to employ staff doing that although presumably they 'd have to be employed doing something else unless you changed their rota patterns nonetheless because of your the demands of funding bodies , your own cultural aims and equal opportunities policies , you 've decided that you will do so even though it 's going to be marginally a loss in financial terms . |
| 22 | Whether or not you believe that such a move is in consumers ' interest depends on your point of view . |
| 23 | The answer is that it depends whether or not you think that the history of the earth is divisible into units by means of natural events ( or revolutions ) detectable by man . |
| 24 | But I do n't know whether it 's cold with it during the winter or not I know but |
| 25 | The thought of the Marlborough boys ‘ discovering ’ him gave him obvious pleasure ; and whether or not he believed that the curriculum should include modern literature ( as Auden was later to say that it should not ) , he certainly believed , with his own youthful experience in mind , that the young should be enabled to explore new fields in the arts for themselves . |
| 26 | If that is so , the defendant can not be convicted if he raises doubts as to whether or not he realised that the person with whom he was dealing was a policeman , or that he did not realise that what he was doing would make the task of the policeman more difficult . |
| 27 | A court has power to make a s8 order whether or not it varies or discharges the supervision order . |
| 28 | What saves an ordinary cat from being over-mauled is the fact that sooner or later it struggles and scratches . |
| 29 | It amazed her that she had not thought that the minute she had met him , or maybe she had but had simply denied it to herself . |
| 30 | Or maybe he knew that the Mob had files of their own , that Meyer Lansky , the one-time bootlegger and now the gambling mogul , had pictures which could ruin him : Edgar and Clyde , for once unambiguously tangled . |