Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] less [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | threading through the turf ( less and less a lawn |
| 2 | " It works in an area where I was getting less and less interested-the theatre . |
| 3 | This new life reveals more and more the gifts of God , and less and less the human efforts we vainly try to make . |
| 4 | The second main reason why handling grief is different these days is that death has become less and less an event that takes place within the confines of the family circle . |
| 5 | Yet the London we inherited from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is more or less a success . |
| 6 | That particular trip was more or less a carbon copy of the previous one . |
| 7 | That means it was for use in climates and countries so benign that the natives require no shelter at all , and where a tent is more or less a decorative affectation . |
| 8 | Not only might religious education ( and the compulsory school assembly , already more or less a dead letter in many schools ) be abandoned , but the obligation to give sex education or moral instruction might also go by the board . |
| 9 | This design was , as was the Karrier model , based on and more or less a facsimile of the ‘ Wolverton Coupling ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ We had more or less a free hand . |
| 11 | No-one actually said ‘ Piss off ’ to anyone else , or ‘ You 're fired ’ or ‘ You 're hired ’ ; it was more or less a thing where none of us really communicated at all . |
| 12 | The controls , which laid down a minimum deposit for certain goods , restricted the amount of the finance charge which could be made and prohibited finance charges altogether for others , lingered on for a few years afterwards as part of what was still more or less a strictly managed war-time economy . |
| 13 | Unfortunately , as we have already said , casein is more or less a mixture of cheese and lime and under prolonged moist conditions casein behaves very like cheese . |
| 14 | I am more or less a consultant to them . ’ |
| 15 | … Trouble with going back to the old days , the [ agency ] was more or less a family concern . |
| 16 | I think that the rest of the situation should be more or less a straight across thing , and I 'm gon na see if we can get Paul |
| 17 | And he actually treated me like a , more or less a son , the site agent , and he made sure er I gradually developed my muscles . |
| 18 | It 's er it 's more or less a |
| 19 | I asked in what I hoped was more or less a normal voice . |
| 20 | It 's more or less a third of the marketplace will then be to the right . |
| 21 | You know our our putting up the pistons more or less a which is we had a big of er Tommy would know what I meant and I would know what he meant . |
| 22 | The Education Minister in the AIG , Farooq Azam was reported on July 2 as having resigned claiming that it was " more or less a dead organization " . |
| 23 | There 's no rules in our business , but there 's more or less a convention that we do n't kill each other . |
| 24 | All the models of passive rifting discussed so far assume that rifting is more or less a symmetric process ; that is , we would expect the opposing passive margins formed through continental break-up to have a similar structure and morphology because they have experienced a similar tectonic history . |
| 25 | As I see it , Rocky 's been playing in the wide midfield role ( more or less a direct replacement for Strach ) , with Fairclough playing as a direct replacement for Batty , and Macca and Speed in more central roles . |
| 26 | A Celtic win was more or less a formality . |
| 27 | Erm you may , you may start to believe from what I 've been saying that federalism is a kind of sham , you know that it 's a that really states have lost significance viz a viz the federal government , federal government is now more or less a , a unitary state and runs everything , well that 's not true at all . |
| 28 | In examining colloquial English it is often more or less a matter of arbitrary choice how one transcribes such a word . |
| 29 | No I do n't , but So it 's more or less a threesome if anything at all . |
| 30 | You say you 're an accountant , well a lot of people consider accountants to be tickers , those people who check other people 's facts and figures , and secondly you presented what the County Councillors do as more or less a rubber stamping of what the officers put before them . |