Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] it [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could one promote his buried awareness into a skill of giving matter-of-fact recognition to a child 's potential , of giving a child hope about himself , instead of confirming his negative stance by showing surprise at occasional good work or using it to prove that Dave ‘ could do better if he tried ’ ( as we so easily exhort when we are exasperated , and as the group seemed to be doing with Mr E ) ? |
| 2 | This evidence can then be used to modify the contract or allow it to terminate and not to offer renewal . |
| 3 | Not that terrible assertion of the self , of what the self sees or imagines it sees or just sees in imagination . |
| 4 | Was it me or did it look like the game was in slow motion then ? |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | Or does it mean that you have somehow glimpsed the anguish in me , or even guessed at the cause ? |
| 7 | Or does it mean that the problems of environmental degradation are being magnified and transferred to hitherto uncompromised regions ? |
| 8 | Or does it mean that the longer B text is an entirely different Doctor Faustus ? |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | Or does it accept that the only way to make things better is to lavish ever-greater sums of public money on the public services ? |
| 11 | How many times have you supposed to have taken something back or have it repaired or something and it 's sat there , and it 's sat there , and it 's sat there , and it 's sat there and it 's collected du , I 've got things round the house that I 've been working on and that I 've got ta , I 've got ta and it 's collected dust . |
| 12 | After a little tense silence that made it seem as though the very air were holding it breath , he said very evenly , and with dangerous softness . |
| 13 | That 's better than letting it drag and drag ; you lose a lot of the vibe that way . |
| 14 | Nor did it demand that Israel , like the PLO , abandon the use of violence in its treatment of enemy civilians either inside or beyond the territories under its control . |
| 15 | Nor did it mean that Germany and the countries associated with her would be let in until they had purged their crimes . |
| 16 | Nor did it help that the morning , which had started so bright , began to cloud over . |
| 17 | Environment is the soil and water that permits it to sprout and grow , or sees to it that it does n't . |
| 18 | This does not mean however that mental processes are in some way divorced from the physical world , nor does it mean that they should be excluded from the subject matter of natural science . |
| 19 | This international co-operation between clearinghouses does not preclude international co-operation on an individual library basis , nor does it mean that the Australian , UK and USA clearinghouses will not provide a service to individual libraries in another country which has or has not a clearinghouse of its own . |
| 20 | Part-time working does not affect your right to study leave , nor does it mean that you should be given only those jobs which no one else wants . |
| 21 | Nor does it mean that the new controllers are any less constrained by the pressures of markets and profitability than old-style entrepreneurs . |
| 22 | Nor does it mean that the project acquisitions were not used . |
| 23 | Nor does it mean that demand is stable . |
| 24 | No one has been brought to justice for any of these killings , nor does it appear that they have been properly investigated . |
| 25 | It does not make any appreciable difference whether the solid is glassy or crystalline or even polymeric , nor does it matter whether it has a high or a low Young 's modulus 50 long as it more or less obeys Hooke 's law , virtually up to failure . |
| 26 | Nor does it matter whether the tenant may give notice after the last date for service of a rent review notice ( Coventry CC v J Hepworth & Son Ltd ( 1982 ) 265 EG 608 ) or at a time which coincides with time during which a landlord may serve such a notice ( Legal & General Assurance ( Pension Management ) Ltd v Cheshire CC ) . |
| 27 | Nor does it matter that the stereotypes are internally contradictory . |
| 28 | Nor does it follow that the distinction can always be drawn . |
| 29 | Nor does it follow that this second meaning should be given pedagogic preference over the first . |
| 30 | Nor does it follow that the proper course is to quash the order . |