Example sentences of "more [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No more 'n usual . ’ |
| 2 | Well , I 'm glad to see more & more people are realising that Keegan is a complete twat ! |
| 3 | Indeed given the opportunity it might be better for someone publishing obscene or indecent literature to be charged under one piece of legislation rather than another , since one might permit more or better defences . |
| 4 | If suitable genes for gluten production could be added to British varieties , or if the genes in British wheat were made to produce more or better gluten , imports would be saved and farmers would get a higher price for a better quality wheat . |
| 5 | There is a presumption ( but no more ) that it is a penalty when ‘ a single lump is made payable by way of compensation , on the occurrence of one or more or all of several events , some of which may occasion serious and others but trifling damage … ’ |
| 6 | But if you recycle land already used by housing , you do n't necessarily get any more or any fewer dwellings . |
| 7 | Theories of normative income redistribution set a desirable standard or target , whereas the more positive theories are an attempt to predict something about the nature of redistribution in the empirical world which may or may not be consistent with one or more or any of the views of desirability . |
| 8 | He is not Joyce any more or any less than Stephen is , but Stephen can only fly by the nets of nationality , language , religion and artistic mediocrity because Bloom can not . |
| 9 | He contends , in effect , that ethical statements do indeed do something more or different than merely state facts , even facts about the effects of actions on the general happiness , for they pick out actions for approval or disapproval . |
| 10 | Matching objects one — to — one is a technique for checking whether one set has more or fewer objects than another , or the same amount . |
| 11 | Once paper rationing ended in 1956 , the size of papers swelled and slumped as fluctuations in advertising revenue paid for more or fewer pages . |
| 12 | These changes have not been quantified — will they require more or fewer general practitioners ? |
| 13 | Some composers use series which may contain more or fewer notes than the twelve contained in the total-chromatic , but this is uncommon , and the usage can be ignored . |
| 14 | Average sales values for both hardware and software may also be different from the figures we have chosen and people may buy more or fewer discs for their players . |
| 15 | The grand form offered a scale of more or less assimilation to the form hidden in the wood , the surface a scale of textures , on both of which the sculptors played , and they are a source of specific qualities of the genre . |
| 16 | And what 's one more or less ? |
| 17 | Initial training to teach operators how to use the system takes more or less time depending on the software , but typically this ranges from two to five days . |
| 18 | It can provide general lighting so you can move around safely and see more or less what you are doing when it 's dark outside ; task lighting when you want more concentrated light in a particular area for a particular job ( including reading ) ; mood lighting to provide different atmospheres in different rooms at different times ; and it can also be used to illuminate the outside of the home . |
| 19 | This may take a few iterations to achieve a good balance , but should eventually make the zero crossings correspond to more or less zero field . |
| 20 | Leo McKern has some fun answering frequent calls of nature and waving a huge condom around , but he 's doing no more or less than passing the time until the phoney climax of the First Act curtain , by which time you 're aware that as a play Boswell is a fraud . |
| 21 | Impressive as it is , however , Dame Edna 's show is no more or less than a star vehicle . |
| 22 | Delays would increase or decrease , according to whether the court was presented with more or less work than it could handle . |
| 23 | The contribution of such schemes to dollar receipts and colonial development alike was more or less zero . |
| 24 | AT THE beginning of the 20th century Texan lobbyists could get more or less what they wanted so long as they kept politicians supplied with the three Bs : beefsteak , bourbon and blondes . |
| 25 | Nowadays it can more or less count on getting asked routinely to sanction , shape or run a new form of global riot-control that none of the big powers , not even America , is ready to do alone . |
| 26 | In addition to the urban congestion , there were two new factors , more or less coinciding in impact , which operated to degrade the traditional sanctity of the grave and hit the poorest people hardest . |
| 27 | It is a typical Karajan project because in one respect it is enormously sophisticated — the technology is elaborate , expensive , and bang up to date — and in another it is very simple , inasmuch as its ultimate aim is nothing more or less than the lucid presentation of the music . |
| 28 | The Tories have more or less run out of good ideas which inspired them in the early Thatcher years , and are left only with a few bad ones : the creation of new , ever more incompetent ‘ private ’ monopolies ; the vindictive pursuit of aged war criminals ; the idiotic struggle to knock a penny off income tax , which will benefit nobody , when so much more could be achieved with a little imagination — by abolishing all discriminatory rates , abolishing capital transfer tax and other taxes on savings , allowing domestic wages ( as all other forms of employment are allowed ) against personal taxation … |
| 29 | I 'm not sure whether 2nd births are viewed with more or less apprehension . |
| 30 | In most common diseases of western society , we know more or less what has gone wrong , even if we do not know why it has gone wrong . |