Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pron] [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the widowed or divorced there was no difference between those with and without children nor any significant trend with the number of children . |
| 2 | Or has it been a build up over a ye number of years |
| 3 | And judging ads , or deciding which are the good ones , either before or after they have been run , is the subject of the next chapter . |
| 4 | Bruch contrasts this fortunate majority with both the anorexic and the obese person , neither of whom knows how to gauge the state of her own stomach or assess what is a reasonable requirement of food for her own bodily needs.9 The obese person can not recognise that her stomach is full , nor the anorexic that hers is empty . |
| 5 | Or confirm it is a genuine loss at sea . ’ |
| 6 | In the case of products ( like salt , oil or coal ) which are won or abstracted , the person who wins or abstracts them is the producer . |
| 7 | The player who trespasses against the rules or ignores them is a ‘ spoil-sport ’ . |
| 8 | Sir J. Franklin desires me to give his compliments — he is in very good health & hopes you are the same . ’ |
| 9 | Take It Or Leave It is a much more vocal narrative delivered to a fictional audience with jokes , asides and comments on his own style . |
| 10 | This connection between economic performance , marriage , and fertility , perhaps the best known empirical association in social science , then worked through the ‘ valve ’ of marriage : delaying marriage or avoiding it was the only practical way of controlling births . |
| 11 | In the events leading to separation or divorce there are a huge number of variables . |
| 12 | Not only are the men and women involved people of remarkable courage and strength , but unlike Imperial Typewriters or Spiralynx it is a strike of black workers in an area well known for its tradition of left wing trade union organisation . |
| 13 | ( b ) at the time of such act or default I am a member of or a beneficial owner of a share or shares in the Company |
| 14 | ( b ) at the time of such act or default it is a member of or a beneficial owner of a share or shares in the Company |
| 15 | Or had it been a fruit ? |
| 16 | Had her sister known David was back in the country , or had it been a shock ? |
| 17 | Had she been less committed to parenting , perhaps because her children were older and seen to be less in need of her support , or had it been an event which threatened a role or idea to which she was less committed , perhaps losing a part-time job which she did not enjoy , the effect would be less threatening . |
| 18 | Thirty minutes of oratory and twelve of applause ; or had it been the other way round ? |
| 19 | Then , opening them again , she resumed her earlier apologetic furtiveness and , like a nocturnal animal twitching before a predator , begged her sister not to laugh , not to make fun of her , not to comment straight away or say she was an idiot or slap her down , but please , please , to let her have her dream about him just for a night . |
| 20 | Being drunk or stoned can make anyone forget to use condoms , but if the condoms are easy to see or find there is a better chance that you 'll remember to use them . |
| 21 | Are you , or have you been a carer ? |
| 22 | During his waking hours the thought that haunted him was the Renault 18 and its two occupants . |
| 23 | If you 're with someone that pinches you 're a girl you just walk away . |
| 24 | The main thing that upsets me is the fact that she 's a bastard . |
| 25 | I saw no one on the long lonely road home , and the only enemy that attacked me was the midges . |
| 26 | That 's been sort of revolutionized , when you when you think that you used to have to buy , did n't have to buy your tea , but you used to buy a tea from the chemist shop and the only person that sold it was a chemist , that was . |
| 27 | It was a position of strange intimacy ; as if the steam that shrouded them was a veil that cut out the world . |
| 28 | Second , GRiD announced the Convertible — the world 's first notebook that thinks it 's a pen computer . |
| 29 | It 's considered disgusting to use Lilets , because of the idea that the female body itself is disgusting , and that touching yourself is the equivalent of masturbation . |
| 30 | The indifference of Limnititzkers to the great outdoors is well-known ; the only landscapes that interest them are the hills of a totally discorporeal Zion . |