Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] or [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main and more or less stable plate that dominates the area is known , hardly surprisingly , as the Pacific Plate ; surrounding it are a number of equally large , or smaller plates such as the Australian , the Nazca , the North American and the Cocos Plate . |
| 2 | The first is a simple , unscaled and more or less subjective feeling of whether it is expensive or cheap . |
| 3 | Here not only do the sediments preserve a continuous and more or less uniform record over the disputed boundary , but the faunas ( most notably the monograptids ) went on happily evolving , oblivious of the great things that were going on elsewhere . |
| 4 | When people wished to resist this ranking they went to some lengths to do so in a symbolic and more or less public way . |
| 5 | Henceforth , of course , there would be a need to promote Vietnam to the position of an established , legitimate and more or less popular state deserving of US assistance . |
| 6 | discounting : it is argued that we attribute our first impressions to the person ( e.g. to a person 's traits or abilities ) , and later or more recent information to the situation ( e.g. the task , environment , influence of other people ) . |