Example sentences of "[verb] [det] [coord] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Little Monaco , with their English Third Division crowds , could easily afford to tempt Glenn Hoddle from Tottenham ; Marseille , who paid £4.5m for Chris Waddle , were said to have earned that and more from television alone in the previous year . |
| 2 | There is no really well-defined pattern , but the constellation is not hard to identify , because it lies more or less between Altair and Fomalhaut ; the line of three stars of which Altair is the central member points to it . |
| 3 | A far-southern constellation , not hard to find because it is so compact ; it lies more or less between Achernar and Canopus . |
| 4 | Over generations secondary sexual characteristics caused males in general to differ more and more from females . |
| 5 | Like other reform-minded Communists in Warsaw , he finds he has less and less in common with the Party 's local base . |
| 6 | You have to stand more or less at attention all the time when you get locked up in there . |
| 7 | This observation corresponds more or less to Jacobsson 's list ( pp. 60-2 ) of the ten types of context where need can be used as a modal : Type 1 Need I be present ? |
| 8 | It was perhaps because of this , and because I tried to foster the whole idea of positive thinking , that I began to concentrate more and more on visualization . |
| 9 | In any event , however , the number of branches says less and less about capacity in banking . |
| 10 | Rising spending on consumer goods in turn allowed the industries producing them to grow more or less in line with those producing means of production . |
| 11 | For as women delivered them from the sex obsession , men would become more and more like women . |
| 12 | In the West we have bigger , warmer homes , more amusement , more communications ; we travel more and further for work and pleasure than every before . |
| 13 | And it struck me straight away that although the twentieth century as it marched on made us look more and more like Americans , we are Europeans , we always have been Europeans , our roots are there , our culture 's there and of course in the late twentieth century our economic needs , and the geographical links , the electronic links mean that we are there whether we like it or not . |
| 14 | But the state 's shabby and dangerous schools look less and less like breeding grounds for the biotechnologists and virtual-reality scriptwriters of the future . |
| 15 | It has just won an additional franchise in Germany and according to Elstone , the company will move more and more into Europe as the UK market continues to mature . |
| 16 | In The Silmarillion we learn that water is the province of the Vala Ulmo , and that from it ( sea or river ) there often comes assistance ; the incident with Sam and Frodo begins to seem less and less like chance , more and more of a ‘ sending ’ . |
| 17 | The ability of modern technology to cope with the problem of soil erosion is summarised thus : ‘ Growing populations may in part have destroyed more land than they improved , but it makes little sense to project past trends into the future , since we know more and more about methods of land preservation and are able by means of modern methods , to reclaim much land , which our ancestors have made sterile . ’ |
| 18 | Do people participate more or less in villages , towns or cities ? |
| 19 | As the years passed , he was beginning to sound more and more like Matthew Arnold — although Arnold was never quite able to practise what he preached . |
| 20 | Over the past few years , the industry has tended to lean more and more on contract labour . |
| 21 | His remark to Berthe Morisot in 1889 — ‘ I go less and less to paris , where the only thing people talk about is politics ’ — supports this view . |
| 22 | And I went round town on Saturday and I 'd gone more or less from work as well so I 'd got my big bag with me and ooh my shoulder ! |
| 23 | The solution also implies that and so from equation ( 9.14 ) , there is a phase shift β given by However , has to be in the range -1 to + 1 . |
| 24 | No , I assure you of that but , well , for one thing the Elsie I knew made it clear to me that she wished to make a new life for herself , start more or less from scratch . |
| 25 | Without new taxing powers , local authorities would come to depend more and more on help from the National Exchequer and , since he who pays the piper calls the tune , the result must be even stronger central influence over local decisions . |
| 26 | As the world comes to depend more and more on telecommunications and computer networks , AT&T is striving ever harder to pre-empt or avoid the kinds of breakdowns that have plagued its long-distance network and caused chaos in parts of the US over the past couple of years . |
| 27 | Now , I 'm not saying Wilko should drop these players ( actually I am about to say that but only for Hodge ! ) only that they did n't *sound* to play well ! ! |
| 28 | Hence we have come to rely more and more on books , classes and professional advice to tell us how to give birth and bring up children . |
| 29 | Thus , any decision by an authority to spend more or less on services than the government 's assumed level will be reflected directly in the level of charge it has to set . |