Example sentences of "[verb] more or " in BNC.
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| 1 | More slowly , ministers and departments of State charged more or less specifically with the conduct of foreign affairs emerged in most West European countries , though it was not until late in the eighteenth century that this process began to reach completion . |
| 2 | And you can do sometimes because some of the sub-contractors you 'll come on , they 'll come on and they 'll act more or less like your own labour on some sites . |
| 3 | An earthquake in Mexico will be reported more or less the same by each , but what about the Labour Party Conference or a murder down on a Devon farm ? |
| 4 | The X-25 gateway to link Payroll to Chessington has been found to demand more or less exclusive use of a fast , large-memory machine . |
| 5 | In other regions we see scattered developments , again of figures which appear more or less subsidiary to the whole design . |
| 6 | In such circumstances , it is clearly easier to establish more or less uniform procedures on a more or less informal basis , and to disseminate to the general public the sort of information which will generate trust . |
| 7 | Straggling , catching up with one another , keeping more or less together , they had wandered over half a mile down the fields , always following the course of the brook . |
| 8 | People begin to arrive uninvited , so that Howard and Felicity find themselves keeping more or less open house . |
| 9 | For the moment , endangered populations are relatively secure from poachers because listing the leopard in Appendix I has more or less dried up the market in leopard skins . |
| 10 | Even so , though Hendrix has more or less possessed Randy for the past fifteen years , Hansen 's original guitar influences could n't be further removed from the blues-based , howling feedback style that was to become his shared trademark . |
| 11 | Phil Neale has more or less bowed out as a player and there is even speculation about whether he might still resurface with another team . |
| 12 | The first is that a human observer has more or less direct access to some properties of the external world insofar as those properties are recorded by the brain in the act of seeing . |
| 13 | The LNA launched a dual offensive , attacking both the medical profession and the double-standard on which the acts were premised : ‘ the false idea that there is one code of morality for men and another for women … which has more or less coloured and shaped the whole of our social life . ’ |
| 14 | Nowadays , enjoys his outings with and her children who he has more or less adopted as his own grandchildren . |
| 15 | Harrogate figure has more or less doubled , Selby is slightly increased , Ryedale is slightly increased . |
| 16 | There were good reasons why the nucleated village should survive more or less intact . |
| 17 | The ‘ heavies ’ all carried more or less the same picture of a statuesque blonde , at first sight naked , standing on the rostrum , her arm outstretched in the direction of Sir Charles Webb-Bowen , whose incredulous , even leery expression , was later to be the cause of much hilarity . |
| 18 | The business of designing machines , processes and systems can be pursued more or less independently of the properties of people . |
| 19 | The ability to mark discrimination points is lost since ambiguity of word boundaries in connected speech , together with multiple choices of phoneme labels , means that a variable number of paths through the tree will be pursued more or less in parallel at any particular point in processing . |
| 20 | Between these two , an unequivocal dividing line made the plateaux of Leon and Burgos a kind of no-mans-land , across which the two forces ranged more or less in a continual dispute until the middle of the tenth century . |
| 21 | Rather than being a finished product , we are always in a state of dynamic change : becoming more or less ‘ human ’ , or ‘ personal ’ , or indeed ‘ spiritual ’ . |
| 22 | Is poverty in Britain becoming more or less ‘ feminized ’ ? |
| 23 | She gave a quick glance at her watch , put on an hour on the ferry to accommodate the time change , and saw that it had gone six , and that , apart for a stop for petrol and a brief stop in Aachen for a cup of coffee , she had been driving more or less continuously since just after nine that morning . |
| 24 | That may seem reasonable , but it 's a lot for Poland , where a million and a half zlotys a month is considered more or less an average wage . |
| 25 | there , I mean in the older days they used to have a li little railway and they used t used more or less take all the sewage on to his land and there used to be couple little trucks where you tip over and they 'd be one down and one up , on and he , old he used to , used to be his , put on his land . |
| 26 | At that time I was more interested in making fireworks than in ghosts , and again through my father 's good offices , I was able to obtain both gunpowder , and materials for making Roman candle balls — dried more or less successfully at the back of the kitchen range . |
| 27 | The front pair point slightly forward from the forehead and are positioned more or less between the eyes . |
| 28 | The number of destitute people with serious mental disorder now living more or less permanently in this way is reckoned to be 60–90,000 , but no one knows for sure : a large number of people but still a quite small proportion of the total number of people in our society in need of a home . |
| 29 | From the mere fact of wanting more or less or not at all or the contrary I can derive no imperative for choosing between my wants . |
| 30 | Yet it is important to realise that in the last decades of the old régime in France the parlements were often expressing more or less accurately what public opinion there was on the issues at stake , and that they had frequently widespread popular support for their attitudes . |