Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [coord] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This century has seen the rise to prominence on the world-stage of the ecumenical movement , which grew out of the need felt by Christians engaged in foreign mission to overcome the divisions between churches and denominations which made less and less sense in the missionary context . |
| 2 | It was debated no fewer than five times on the Floor of the House and was given long and detailed scrutiny by a Select Committee over 26 days . |
| 3 | A hegemonal class may be more or less ingenious at furthering its political interest while maintaining its position in the power bloc ; the working class may make better or worse use of a revolutionary situation . |
| 4 | Night had fallen over Chiguana and , as the doctor 's wife had predicted , the Lower Bolivian Liberation Force had driven through the town , firing randomly and inspiring fear in all . |
| 5 | For its part , the House of Lords was able to exert an influence in the context of a restricted franchise and a distribution of parliamentary seats that bore less and less relation to the actual distribution of the population at large . |
| 6 | Thereafter Lester devoted less and less time to the business , and he finally died in 1980 . |
| 7 | It was above all in response to this mounting agitation over the land , not least among workers whose rural ties were still significant , that the Bolsheviks devoted more and more attention to the land question . |
| 8 | They gradually demonstrated more and more evidence of a defocusing of attention as the task went on , consistent with the view that although performance was not disrupted by lapses , habituation was leading to a marked drop in arousal level in these subjects . |
| 9 | On clear nights these same skies held us spellbound as Northern Lights flickered eerily and changed colour like some celestial cinema curtain . |
| 10 | Cowley stopped abruptly and fixed Hogan with his coldest stare . |
| 11 | In Monday 's attack Mr. Drumgoole was wounded twice and picked part of one bullet from a flesh wound to the arm . |
| 12 | It can be programmed to provide easier or harder material during the course of an assessment according to an analysis of the pupils ' performance . |
| 13 | The process was helped by the so-called ‘ automatic stabilisers ’ — the tendency for taxation to increase faster and public spending at a slower rate in a boom , thereby reducing government borrowing , and vice versa in a recession . |
| 14 | So , whether we look purely to the way in which a corpus sustains itself internally , or to the production of new perspectives for the corpus , or to the intermingling of different corpuses , or finally to standing outside a corpus altogether and developing a critique of it , we can see that reason is exhibited within and given sense by a framework with its own tacit rules . |
| 15 | The idea of socialism , so passionately affirmed by the Bennite multitudes , attracted less and less support amongst the population at large . |
| 16 | A life of travelling Sundays ( proudly I noticed less and less wicker on my hamper , so covered was it with railway stickers ) , shunted into sidings to move on later with the consignment of coal , or worse , kippers . |
| 17 | He said , ‘ How wonderful it has been for us both to seek new understanding of each other as we have prayed together and sought healing from each other 's wounds . ’ |
| 18 | Whereas in the examples taken from scenes one and three , Anderson fulfils the Interest Principle by merely 'saying what is unpredictable and hence interesting " ( Leech 1983 : 146 ) , in later scenes he uses irony to implicate propositions which might be too face-threatening to be made directly or ironic understatement to be deliberately impolite . |
| 19 | Hendry , still without a ranking event title this season , said : ‘ I did n't expect to lose but Dave played well and all credit to him . |
| 20 | By 1901 , the population had grown considerably but increased use of birth control was narrowing the lower part of the pyramid . |
| 21 | I was , in Robert Pirsig 's immortal phrase , caught in a gumption trap , expending more and more energy in a blind alley of endeavour from which I needed to quietly reverse in temporary resignation . |
| 22 | She found that she was bringing more and more discipline to her writing for the Clarion , and thinking of this she noticed that it was the Clarion which Dr Neil was reading , or pretending to read , for her new awareness told her that , too . |
| 23 | Financiers and investors are also demanding more and more proof of accident management . |
| 24 | For that reason alone the study will have started to achieve its objective of generating further and fundamental debate on what continues to be an unresolved and unsatisfactory state of affairs . |
| 25 | IBM Corp says its Personal Computer Co shipped 30% to 35% more personal computers in the first quarter than it did during the year-ago period , and vice-chairman Jack Kuehler expects it to be ‘ reasonably profitable ’ in 1993 — but the personal computer business is now so volatile that making forecasts more than a quarter ahead is a mug 's game : following Conner Peripherals Inc 's warning on Friday that it is seeing oversupply and soft demand for disk drives ( CI No 2,142 ) , observers are saying that grey market prices for 80486s are now weak ; Finis Conner said on Friday that Conner would have to slash production and payrolls in the months ahead to remain competitive — ‘ The market is in total disarray , ’ he said ; ‘ the pricing that has occurred in the last four to five days has been something I 've never seen believes the booming personal computer industry is showing signs of slowing after being fuelled for over two years by the price war . |
| 26 | In general , then , a number of geometries are possible ; as a result the most prominent surface structures may occur above or some distance to either the north or south of the subcropping basement thrust plane . |
| 27 | In a group of 20 or 30 youngsters from the background described by my hon. Friend the Member for Cardiff , West ( Mr. Morgan ) it would be considered odd for someone to be puffing away and spreading filth in the direction of others in that group . |
| 28 | Perhaps what is needed is more knowledge about what exists already and some sort of in-school organisation that facilitates access . |
| 29 | To these qualities , he has been adding more and more flair within the past fortnight . |
| 30 | Sport , hobbies , a small business or charity work have been occupying more and more attention through the late fifties , in preparation for retirement . |