Example sentences of "[verb] more [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Always wear clothes to reveal your shape when having these taken , and adopt more or less the same poses . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Most of us apply more or less the same old lotions , creams and make-up all year round through force of habit . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 13 | There , the iso-reflectance lines follow more or less the stratigraphic contours ( cf. |
| 14 | The series of Horta heads all have more or less the same basic subdivision into several clearly defined areas . |
| 15 | Total orders for the second quarter , to April 30 , were 28.5% up at $5,370m ; orders for computer products rose 32.9% to $4,120m , making it clear that the company , where computers accounted for less than half of the business only a few years back , is continuing progressively to become more and more a pure computer company . |
| 16 | Total orders for the second quarter , to April 30 , were 28.5% up at $5,370m ; orders for computer products rose 32.9% to $4,120m , making it clear that the company , where computers accounted for less than half of the business only a few years back , is continuing progressively to become more and more a pure computer company . |
| 17 | Durkheim 's second ‘ law ’ was : ‘ Deprivations of liberty , and of liberty alone , varying in time according to the seriousness of the crime , tend to become more and more the normal means of social control ’ ( 1973 : 294 ) . |