Yet most of Terry Parsons' generally handsome sets are impressively solid-looking, and are moved into place with machine-like efficiency by the stage crew.

Men and equipment, supplies and munitions were brought down the railway line with machine-like efficiency.

The business had always been conducted in an atmosphere of almost machine-like efficiency.

But Deborah began signing the guardianship papers with machine-like efficiency.

What's encouraging to their rivals is that neither No. 1 has performed this summer with the machine-like efficiency they had demonstrated over the last 18 months.

This was part of Le Corbusier's idea of machine-like efficiency where land, people and buildings would work together optimally.

Mac and Peter, squatted on opposite sides of the steep pitch, paid no attention to us as they replaced shingles with machine-like efficiency.

As expected, their gallery was the biggest and the most boisterous, yet Woods played with machine-like efficiency, making seven birdies and just one bogey.

It possessed no beauty or elegance, but instead, machine-like efficiency.

Nothing bothered his machine-like efficiency.