Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [pron] is [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mentally or instinctively he is looking for the pattern and his antennae are an outward expression of that inward instinct . |
| 2 | In other words , what is seen , or rather what is believed to be seen , as numerically distinct , need not be numerically distinct in reality . |
| 3 | Or rather it is proved — by sleight of hand ; for if the little scene is not momentous , how did it come to be framed , in all its sparsity , by so much white paper ? |
| 4 | This minimum is the optimum ; expenditure above or below it is deemed wasteful for society as a whole ( de Nevers , 1981 ) . |
| 5 | With older children it could be that each child makes his/her own list on a piece of paper ; with younger children maybe we do it as a class , and the teacher writes everything on the blackboard ; or perhaps nothing is written down by individuals , with each giving what they will need to the teacher who 's a " quartermaster " . |
| 6 | Once again , the best way to open the sequence is to establish the location with a wide shot which shows the character of the setting : maybe it 's one of those idyllic places which the crowds have not yet discovered , or perhaps it is crammed with people and overlooked by tourist hotels . |
| 7 | Has he been taking lessons from the right hon. Member for Yeovil ( Mr. Ashdown ) in arm movements , or perhaps he is auditioning for a part in ’ Thunderbirds ’ ? |
| 8 | As to state of mind , Raskolnikov lives with his own continuously but inspects it only intermittently , like the rest of us ; whereas the author surveys the whole truth the whole time , so that we never find him wondering whether perhaps Raskolnikov is thinking this or perhaps he is thinking that : a fact which isolates Crime and Punishment among the mature novels , because elsewhere Dostoevsky loves the unsettled and unsettling narrative posture of ‘ perhaps ’ , particularly with his contracting and dilating collective voice , the ‘ we ’ swept by rumour and speculation which arrives in The House of the Dead and reaches its full flowering in The Possessed . |
| 9 | Or so it is hoped . |
| 10 | The capital of Finnish Lappland is Rovaniemi , home of Father Christmas — or so it is said — and a town that easily overcomes the embarrassment of having everything but the airport lying south of the Arctic Circle . |
| 11 | The stories originate from Terra , the birthplace of mankind , or so it is said . |
| 12 | ( Although in Trob the last word in fact became ‘ a thing which may happen but once in the usable lifetime of a canoe hollowed diligently by axe and fire from the tallest diamondwood tree that grows in the noted diamondwood forests on the lower slopes of Mount Awayawa , home of the firegods or so it is said . ’ ) . |
| 13 | Hitachi Ltd and Toshiba Corp say they will step up their production of 4M-bit memory chips shortly in response to recovery in the US market : Hitachi intends to boost monthly output by July to 8m from the current 7.5m and as it is near capacity will have to get more of them from Goldstar Co ; Toshiba said it would raise monthly output to between 6m and 7m by September from the 5m or so it is doing right now . |
| 14 | Or so it is reported . |
| 15 | One of the advantages of this approach , or so it is claimed , is that it enables governments to pursue policies based upon consent and voluntary cooperation and thereby to avoid both the ‘ law of the jungle ’ ( monetarism ) and the ‘ jungle of the law ’ ( statutory incomes policies ) . |
| 16 | Cos our cleaners wo n't clean if it 's erm occupied or not everything is cleaned from the floor they wo n't change the bed sheets unless you 've actually taken them off and |
| 17 | I think that is the case , doubly so considering the discussion yesterday where we saw , that whether some of the districts liked it or not there is going to be development in excess of the projected figures in their relevant districts over the plan period . |
| 18 | The system now employs feedback to tell the operator whether or not he is achieving the desired result and , if not , the size of the error . |
| 19 | The report consists of seven pages , the first six , described as the inspection report , signed at the foot of page six by the surveyor with an indication whether or not he is employed . |
| 20 | Whether or not he is convicted , most Venezuelans already consider him guilty . |
| 21 | Can anyone help R. Standring , from Bangor in Gwynedd , who is keen to learn whether or not he is sitting on a gold mine or , to be more precise , swinging with one ? |
| 22 | It should be whether or not it is addressing the defined needs of a group of people . |
| 23 | It is not made clear whether or not it is intended to be exhaustive . |
| 24 | Within the Ophioplinthacinae the characters used to distinguish the genera are the shape and position of the radial shields , the shape of the disk whether or not it is indented and the form and number of both the apical and oral papillae , the arrangement of the adoral and oral shields and the degree of development of the dorsal arm plates . |
| 25 | When you feel anger welling up within you , ask yourself whether or not it is justified . |
| 26 | It is an entirely different question whether the Marxist concept of the state as the necessary product of the division of society into classes ( which is also sufficient to produce it ) is itself adequate , irrespective of whether or not it is incorporated into an evolutionist scheme . |
| 27 | The House of Lords was , no doubt , influenced by the fact that the effects of a decision can be exactly the same whether or not it is made in exercise of a statutory power . |
| 28 | Such perception is always practical , whether or not it is followed by theoretical reasoning . |
| 29 | In the first place , it seems to me that the switching of price labels on the article is in itself an assumption of one of the rights of the owner , whether or not it is accompanied by some other act such as removing the article from the shelf and placing it in a basket or trolley . |
| 30 | Gene action is controlled at the level of transcription , and whether a gene is on or off is whether or not it is transcribed . |