Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] [pron] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not alleging that they are mechanically unsafe , but when people go to parties or dances they find that some of the buses are not clean and up to the standard that they had come to expect when buses were under local authority control . |
| 2 | Not that terrible assertion of the self , of what the self sees or imagines it sees or just sees in imagination . |
| 3 | Naturally this can radically affect her choices , as to whether she takes her job back again , for instance , or gives herself time and space to adjust to the demands of motherhood . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | Or does it mean that you have somehow glimpsed the anguish in me , or even guessed at the cause ? |
| 6 | Or does it mean that the problems of environmental degradation are being magnified and transferred to hitherto uncompromised regions ? |
| 7 | Or does it mean that the longer B text is an entirely different Doctor Faustus ? |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | Is he referring to the deportations , or does he mean that by making life so miserable in the refugee camps people will leave voluntarily ? |
| 11 | Is the Minister satisfied that the 1987 guidelines are still sufficiently detailed and effective , or does he think that they ought now to be updated ? |
| 12 | Or does he panic and get nervous or violent ? |
| 13 | When will the Secretary of State accept responsibility for the crisis in education provision in Cambridgeshire , or does he believe that it is just another scare got up by pupils , parents , teachers and Conservative county councillors in that county ? |
| 14 | Does he say of someone who does not have this character that he is ‘ not loyal ’ , in order to express lack of approval of him , or does he say that he is loyal , but seek to negate the usual valuational meaning of the word , by inserting some adverb like ‘ deplorably ’ before it ? |
| 15 | Nor has anybody suggested that its survival can be assured by pumping into interstellar space countless replicas of the human genome under the slogan ‘ Peace through panspermia ’ or something like it . |
| 16 | Now take a and say , what is it that allows me to say that the individual X in this s erm cell of the film is the same individual X as in this cell of the film . |
| 17 | We have , for example , welcomed laws that allows us to merge and accept transfers of engagements from other trade unions and also laws allowing political expenditure . |
| 18 | We are given a title which carries with it a job or role description that allows us to control and manage others . |
| 19 | There is no unique identifier that allows you to accumulate and match data . |
| 20 | The big thing there is there 's no rule in life that says you know if someone says Five them you must draw five centimetres . |
| 21 | It 's the thought of you that keeps me going when I begin to flag or feel a bit faint-hearted … |
| 22 | When you see her being bossy , you can intervene in a way that lets her see that the other children need a chance to say what they want to do . |
| 23 | And er we 've allocated all the class papers so erm that means you escape unless you really do want to do er a class presentation . |
| 24 | Environment is the soil and water that permits it to sprout and grow , or sees to it that it does n't . |
| 25 | The ‘ base communities ’ of Latin America know more than we do about hunger and sickness , but it is study of the Bible that gives them understanding and courage to demand justice in the name of the God of justice . |
| 26 | That 's the part that gives you sustain and that 's the part that you do n't want to depress to the point that it touches the fret , because otherwise the fretted strings do n't have the clearance to run underneath the slide without touching it . |
| 27 | A transformational change is orchestrated by the organization 's executive managers , who must have access to a model that enables them to diagnose and manage the change process . |
| 28 | McGegan is not afraid of Handel : nor does he feel that the composer 's awesome genius need be treated with kid gloves . |
| 29 | Nor does he believe that abstinence makes the heart grow stronger . |
| 30 | Nor does she finish when her class leaves at 3.30pm . |