Example sentences of "be [adv] [conj] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are accused of being the poor men of Europe , and I think we are economically and industrially the poor men of Europe or at least our performances have n't been very good in this respect since the War , but the other side is that because we are the poor men and are self-conscious about it , that we have compensated , in a sense , in the vitality of our music and of our culture , and certainly in the pop culture . |
| 2 | These may of course in practice be confused or entangled with each other , as they are in Northern Ireland , or as they are in any state where the elections are largely or wholly a political ritual or a way of mobilizing mass support or approval for a regime in which party and state are indistinguishable , and electoral choice between contestants for office non-existent . |
| 3 | Whilst surely representing the pinnacle of guitar mass-production ( 500,000 per year sometimes ) you 're right that only a small percentage seem to have survived in the UK . |
| 4 | Well they 're more or less no different to what we 're walking down here now . |
| 5 | Giving good Press : Fashanu has always been more than just a footballer |
| 6 | But this may have been more than just a sartorial sign of the changing times . |
| 7 | Company liquidation figures have been more than double the level of a year before , with about half the companies dying within the first five years . |
| 8 | I am more or less a consultant to them . ’ |
| 9 | When partners are more or less the same age , this slower response will be balanced by the older man 's more delayed reactions . |
| 10 | Before I first visited I supposed wrongly that , since the latitudes are more or less the same , the coastline would be vaguely similar to that of Maine or New Brunswick . |
| 11 | They are situated on practically adjoining hills and are more or less the same distance away from Gubbio . |
| 12 | Selvedges are more or less the same on all items , but the fringes are secured in a number of distinctive ways . |
| 13 | Having said that , it is beginning to gel as a discipline ; Mr D said that staff rarely discussed the aims of the course now , there being a ‘ general assumption that the ground rules are more or less the same [ as when we started ] ’ . |
| 14 | Liquid Crystals These are more or less the opposite to glass . |
| 15 | I mean they are more or less the same at the end as they were at the beginning . |
| 16 | Even if you are more or less an appropriate weight to begin with , you can benefit from exercise to tone the muscles . |
| 17 | They are also as much a potential source of recommendations as the client . |
| 18 | The way that these arrangements for the responsibility and control of book provision work out are often as much a matter of personalities and university politics as anything else . |
| 19 | Nor does it apply to claims which are solely or mainly the respect of physical injury or illness or the consequences of such injury or illness . |
| 20 | Magic thus represents a view of causation utterly at variance with the concepts of the Christian scientific West , which are now as much a part of the African 's world as is ancient tradition . ’ |
| 21 | The Smiths had their day , made the '80s safe for ironic excitement and indie pop that was n't crap , and are now as much a part of the nostalgia industry-chart museum as The Rolling Stones . |
| 22 | But they and the families which ran them are now as much a part of local history as pits and shipbuilding . |
| 23 | He 's got a musical test which says do n't they 're tired they 're tired and then he said the pig says I 'm not and then the people said Oh dear and then he said I 'm hungry and then they said they 're hungry and he says I 'm not and he 's sleepy . |
| 24 | A policeman stopped her in Chawton , where the alcohol in her breath was found to be more than twice the legal limit . |
| 25 | Police stopped Kelly , of Chelmsford , and a breath test showed him to be more than twice the legal alcohol limit . |
| 26 | He was later found to be more than twice the legal drink-drive limit . |
| 27 | I fell into one of those drooly , head-lolling dozes that seem to be more and more a feature of my advancing years . |
| 28 | These will increase in efficiency , and with strong belief in hard work and more education , and with the organisation and money provided by Japan , and helped by cheaper labour , will be more and more a threat to all Western economies . |
| 29 | Not long , I think , now that internal revolution , disruption and secession , external interference , aggression and absorption are likely to be more and more the fate of these often unstable and highly artificial British ex-dominions . |
| 30 | I think that the rest of the situation should be more or less a straight across thing , and I 'm gon na see if we can get Paul |