Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] or [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Always wear clothes to reveal your shape when having these taken , and adopt more or less the same poses . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Most of us apply more or less the same old lotions , creams and make-up all year round through force of habit . |
| 8 | I would obtain three or more the same size and allow them to grow up and pair off naturally . |
| 9 | General feelings of being under the weather and slight depression can all combine to make sex seem uninteresting or just a necessary chore ! |
| 10 | Instead you should use the command SUBST A : B : / B : A : / which does more or less the same job . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | There , the iso-reflectance lines follow more or less the stratigraphic contours ( cf. |
| 13 | The series of Horta heads all have more or less the same basic subdivision into several clearly defined areas . |