Example sentences of "[vb -s] [det] [conj] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 There are still two towns — in effect , however , the new Aberdeen has all but completely superseded Old Aberdeen , which now exists only in the way many international cities have a Latin Quarter or a Chinatown , only somewhat smaller and — as becomes all Aberdonians and most east-coast Scots — very discreet .
2 Arsenal became the subject of more ill-considered criticism than any other club , a fate which has more or less persisted .
3 She lived in one of those streets running from the Old Brompton Road more or less parallel with the edge of Brompton Cemetery , a territory that seems more or less taken over by typists ' collectives , where groups of girls band together to share flats whose rents none of them could afford individually .
4 As time goes by , Herta seems more and more put out — by my impotence .
5 Its distribution in space becomes more and more contorted by the velocity fluctuations , but so long as molecular diffusion plays no role , the marked fluid is always just the same fluid .
6 The number of ways of packing is reduced since the empty volume available becomes more and more correlated with the molecules .
7 As the city state continues to develop , private ownership becomes more and more concentrated in the hands of some of the citizens , but the division this give rise to does not lead to the formation of classes among the freemen because they remain united against the slaves .
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