Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [coord] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They all wanted to know more or less the same thing : ‘ What is this tunnel thing about ? ’ |
| 2 | Although Joe does n't use much sweep picking , la Frank Gambale , or rapid-fire althernate picking , la Yngwie , he covers more or less every other technique in the book ! |
| 3 | Each on its own seemed admirable and only a small addition to the government 's total expenditure . |
| 4 | It can be shown that and so the first term on the right-hand side of eqn ( 20.7 ) represents the transfer of energy between wavenumbers . |
| 5 | When we consider the attainment of higher political office , the trend is for the ‘ typical ’ MP to prevail more and more the higher one goes . |
| 6 | Shipman 's two-volume Story of the Cinema ( Hodder and Stoughton ) is also a very good read — the first volume goes up to Gone With The Wind and the second starts with Citizen Kane and reaches more or less the present day . |
| 7 | Now the centre-piece of the ‘ new ’ , lush , grass , airfield , and serving as the ‘ Officers Mess ’ is a surviving building from the field 's brief ‘ other ’ life , a totally restored relic of a war that grows more and more a second-hand experience as every day ticks by . |
| 8 | Always wear clothes to reveal your shape when having these taken , and adopt more or less the same poses . |
| 9 | Waking bright and early the next morning I reached for a copy of Delicacy as the most economical means of establishing whether I was still alive . |
| 10 | Considering his band had clocked up four months on a promotional treadmill that had become steeper and faster the more ‘ Nevermind ’ sold , he looked in pretty good shape . |
| 11 | Ask a dozen American curators about Earl A. Powell III , the new Director of the National Gallery , Washington , and you get more or less the same general response : ‘ If you were having lunch with Rusty ( his nickname that everyone uses ) and did n't know what he did for a living , you would think he was either an Assistant Secretary of the Navy , a General Manager of General Motors , or a football coach . |
| 12 | Advertising may well continue in much the same form as in the past and , therefore , careers in this field will remain more or less the same . |
| 13 | Moira is convinced that ‘ at this stage there was no conscious effort to recreate the past in the styles — one thing just led to another — but there was in terms of the prints ; with old reference books proving far and away the best place to find ideas . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ It felt good and then the next one came after just 15 minutes . |
| 15 | Most of us apply more or less the same old lotions , creams and make-up all year round through force of habit . |
| 16 | Moreover , as a worker gets older , overtime , shift work and so on become less and less a physical possibility . |
| 17 | This means he will get the backing of the crowd for 90 minutes and that is invaluable at Old Trafford where , if you do n't score after 20 minutes , things can go quiet and even the boldest of players can become intimidated . |
| 18 | In the evening the wind became stronger and soon a great storm broke above us . |
| 19 | I would obtain three or more the same size and allow them to grow up and pair off naturally . |
| 20 | General feelings of being under the weather and slight depression can all combine to make sex seem uninteresting or just a necessary chore ! |
| 21 | There is a whistle which lasts long and then a muffled explosion and the earth or house quakes . |
| 22 | Birds rarely employ death-feigning but sometimes a small bird held in the human hand has been seen to collapse motionless and lie very still . |
| 23 | Instead you should use the command SUBST A : B : / B : A : / which does more or less the same job . |
| 24 | –here property has been settled on terms which provide for one or more beneficiaries to become entitled to an interest in possession in it on or before a specified age which does not exceed twenty-five but meantime no such interest in possession subsists and the income so far as not applied for maintenance education or benefit of any beneficiary is to be accumulated , neither a payment made out of the property nor the arising to a beneficiary of an interest in possession in it is to be treated as a chargeable transfer . |
| 25 | Er , the truth about genetics was discovered more or less the same time Darwin put forward his theory in the early eighteen sixties by who was er erm carried out erm experiments in sweetpeas in the monastery garden and apparently sent a copy of his paper to Darwin . |
| 26 | As trading becomes less and less directly connected with physical trading floors , or even a particular trading system , the rulebook becomes more and more the key determinant of the exchange 's identity and objectives . |
| 27 | There , the iso-reflectance lines follow more or less the stratigraphic contours ( cf. |
| 28 | So continuing education became voluntary and therefore the dividing line between what is paternalistic or not is constantly shifting . |
| 29 | In medieval Europe and Islam , for example , the monetary stability of the coinage was adjudged paramount and consequently the same design was retained for long periods to maintain public confidence and implicitly offer reassurance about the unchanging quality of the coinage ; we have already noted in Chapter 2 the same sort of attitude in Athens during the fifth and fourth centuries BC ( see figs. 9 and 3 ) . |
| 30 | ‘ She complained of feeling ill and then the next thing she blacked out and we called an ambulance , ’ said Peter , who works for Darlington Council . |