Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] it [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | I have done just this , or rather it was thrust upon me . |
| 3 | This minimum is the optimum ; expenditure above or below it is deemed wasteful for society as a whole ( de Nevers , 1981 ) . |
| 4 | Or perhaps it 's belting out Slade 's greatest hits with your best friends and a bottle of wine ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Perhaps it is seeking to increase the audience , or perhaps it was lead astray for a while by the fact that , during the Conservative leadership contest , the exciting politics at Westminster were not in the Chamber . |
| 7 | This may have been for meals during the day while living elsewhere , or perhaps it was to make existing accommodation there more adequate for his use . |
| 8 | We think an oil heater may have overturned — or perhaps it was left too close to some curtains . |
| 9 | Well it more or less , it more or less it was accepted . |
| 10 | Or so it is hoped . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The stories originate from Terra , the birthplace of mankind , or so it is said . |
| 13 | ( 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 . ’ ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Or so it is reported . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | ‘ A place to dance — or so it 's said . |
| 18 | The Counts of Angoulême and La Marche submitted , while , in a notorious incident , one of their allies , Robert de Seilhac , died — or so it was believed — as a result of the harsh treatment he received in Henry 's prison . |
| 19 | The RCM held aloof for the same reason that it kept out of Poland — the resources did not stretch to additional responsibilities , or so it was argued . |
| 20 | It affected his mind , or so it was said ; he became paranoid and was obsessed with the thought that he had been used as a scapegoat . |
| 21 | Or so it was said . |
| 22 | It was too big to have fallen down the plug-hole , or so it was reckoned . |
| 23 | At best , or so it was thought , it would give the United Nations some muscle to stop governments doing terrible things to their peoples ; at worst it would serve up a forest of platitude . |
| 24 | Boniface was looking back to an age in which the privileges of the churches of the Anglo-Saxons had been untouched and inviolate , or so it was thought , and he saw this age as ending — as he tells Aethelbald — in the time of Ceolred , king of the Mercians , and Osred , king of the Northumbrians ( both of whose reigns ended in 716 ) , whom Boniface accuses of behaving as Aethelbald was now doing and as a consequence of which they both perished miserably . |
| 25 | Its exclusion from major anthologies made doubly sure that after a generation or so it was read by almost no one . |
| 26 | Or so it was speculated . |
| 27 | And I 'll tell you , sooner or later it 's going to occur to someone you could be useful ; useful enough to make it worthwhile taking out that dog . |
| 28 | man I think sooner or later it 's gon na become law in this country that we |
| 29 | Taken together these two indices yield much information about the abundance or scarcity of each bird , how widely or evenly it is distributed , and how numbers of any species compare with others , perhaps particularly with its near relations . |
| 30 | Lime is extensively used for agricultural purposes , especially in the parishes of Churchstoke and Chirbury , which is brought from Llanymynech , either by the Cambrian and then carted from Montgomery Station , or else it is sent via Oswestry , Shrewsbury , and Craven Arms and carted from Bishop 's Castle . |