Example sentences of "[prep] more or " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we consider an ordinary tree , by the time it is a few years old it has usually acquired a number of little branches , coming out more or less horizontally from the main stem or trunk . |
| 2 | If they have stopped working , they are likely to be seen as dependents — to be looked after more or less generously by the provision of pensions and health services , but with little relevance to educational policy ; simply , they are seen as a cost . |
| 3 | How dare he ? she thought , after more or less flaunting that — that woman in front of me . |
| 4 | A succession of published polls typically produces a stream of more or less contradictory results . |
| 5 | The overall picture which has emerged from the analyses is of more or less consistent use of the same marble quarry for the same elements of the monument , but that a variety of marble types were selected for different purposes . |
| 6 | A brown earth soil is aerobic , of more or less neutral pH , with a good mixture of mineral and organic matter , bearing deep-rooting plants and supporting a normal population of soil life , particularly earthworms . |
| 7 | Individual hands contained all kinds of more or less cursive elements , but the hands themselves cease to be worth classifying except by the dedicated palaeographer , pursuing studies or hypotheses in great detail . |
| 8 | These caches usually consist of single prey species , and if the predator does not return for them the resulting bone assemblage should consist of more or less complete skeletons from one or a limited number of species . |
| 9 | From the point of view of the school or college there could be a number of more or less tangible advantages . |
| 10 | There can be no simple or single explanation either of the great armies of more or less organized knights or of the rabble of thoroughly disorganized folk who followed the popular leader Peter the Hermit . |
| 11 | Of course , the whole ( apart from not being a play but a series of more or less laboured skits ) is a huge lie . |
| 12 | But although codes of more or less articulated principles are a practical necessity for everybody , they seem to hang in a void without anything to support them . |
| 13 | Wilkins ' proposals , for example , have been widely taken to sanction the teaching of more or less fixed phrases as standard expressions of function ( requesting , inviting , describing , agreeing , disagreeing , etc . ) . |
| 14 | These techniques may be the conscious application of ideas which have been subjected to previous appraisal and are therefore the realization of principles , or they may simply be a set of more or less formulaic activities sanctioned not by appraisal but by the approval of authority . |
| 15 | However , since the breaking loads for convenient sized test pieces ( say ¼ inch thick ) are typically between about one and ten tons ( a motor car weighs about a ton ) and since most testing is done by girls , it is usual to apply the load mechanically or hydraulically and there are a large number of more or less automatic testing machines on the market . |
| 16 | I had picked my pall-bearers carefully , so that , for obvious reasons , they would be of more or less uniform height , but one of them was late , and the fourth corner had to be hoisted onto the shoulder of Nigel 's nephew , who was six-foot-four-plus-a-bit . |
| 17 | The resistance to being coerced has a variety of more or less typical expressions , shaped by other values and ideals . |
| 18 | The millimetre to centimetre scale alternations , which record periods of more or less intense upwelling , represent time scales of several years to several tens of years and may represent a response to some internal oscillations of the equatorial Pacific such as El Nino . |
| 19 | If a response to selection occurs , and if ageing in the original base population were attributable entirely to the presence of more or less age-specific deleterious mutations , then no immediate drop in survival or fertility would be expected to occur earlier in life . |
| 20 | Indeed , increasing concern over inflation led to the operation of more or less continuous incomes policies during the 1970s . |
| 21 | After three years of more or less benevolent autocracy , Valery Gergiev is happy with the facts about his Kirov company : the fact that for the 1989–90 season , very much against the malingering influence of Leningrad 's cultural bureaucrats and an army of silently disapproving critics , he headed straight for uncut Mussorgsky ( original Boris , Shostakovich- orchestrated Khovanshchina , Sorochinsky Fair , The Marriage , Salammbô ) ; and the fact that the following year , with the situation in newly-renamed St Petersburg worsening day by day , he set about four Prokofiev operas within a matter of months . |
| 22 | In conceiving of systems as made up of more or less functionally autonomous elements … the elements are not merely ‘ parts ’ but are seen to exist in and for ‘ themselves ’ . |
| 23 | Family reconstitution and literary archaeology have revealed a mountain of more or less valuable information . |
| 24 | During his twenty years of more or less full-time business Stanley Baldwin became a Justice of the Peace , the chairman of a board of school managers and a member of the Worcestershire County Council . |
| 25 | In addition to the above there are many other cuticular processes which either take the form of more or less conical nodules and tubercles of different shapes , or of larger projections known as horns which are characteristic of the males of certain Coleoptera . |
| 26 | Provided the relationship goes forward and is unimpeded ( it will be recognised that this description is programmatic only , that the timescale up to this stage may be much extended , and that circumstances affecting it are multitudinous — for example , moral inhibition in the single state may be overcome by marriage ) at some stage there will be direct physical contact , at first of more or less sexual content , later more directly sexual . |
| 27 | Then we get no more until the planned development of more or less large estates in the late eighteenth-century towns — notably , of course , the spas , but also in such unlikely places as Birmingham and ( early in the nineteenth century ) Ashton-under-Lyne . |
| 28 | ( With the advent of GCSE examinations assessments were against criteria and grades awarded for the achievement of more or less specified performances . ) |
| 29 | Most attention has been directed at the in-migrants and out-migrants to the exclusion of a core of more or less stable groups . |
| 30 | In short , the evidence does not permit a concluded view on whether consummated mergers have led to the creation of more or less efficient enterprises . |