Example sentences of "[coord] [noun pl] [be] [adv] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is changing fast , and clients are more and more wanting advice and action that calls for considerable finesse , knowledge , and intelligence . |
| 2 | Money was still short and days were long , and parties were often and red wine was cheap . |
| 3 | The bombs , guns and paras are there but it avoids stereotypes , reminding us that most of the people in Belfast simply want no truck with the war . |
| 4 | Approaches and perspectives are more or less fruitful in encouraging promising lines in inquiry , rather than being true or false or responsive to empirical test . |
| 5 | The amphibolite bands and lenses are more or less biminerallic , with hornblende by far the most abundant mineral , often occupying more than 75 per cent of the rock , and with feldspar as the other mineral present . |
| 6 | Polar lakes and ponds are partly or completely frozen and snow-covered for much of the year . |
| 7 | And Angela Hampel one of the GDR 's leading feminists now realises that while men and women were more or less equal in an impoverished communist society , in the capitalist West the great divide looms ever wider . |
| 8 | After falling into decay this century , the house , gardens and outbuildings were extensively and sympathetically restored by the present owner in the 1980s . |
| 9 | It was not surprising therefore that while politicians and public demanded change , schools , teacher-training establishments , and educationalists were vaguely and inconclusively defensive about the product that was on offer in State schools . |