Example sentences of "[modal v] more [conj] less " in BNC.
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| 1 | Monetarist theory argues that the two lines on the graph should more or less coincide over long periods , showing that any increase in the money stock in excess of that needed to finance real output growth will be dissipated in price rises . |
| 2 | ‘ In this weather they should more or less be thawed out . |
| 3 | And the foreman er we used to play about , lark about , throw orange peel at each other you know , cos it were a boring job you just stand like this and you could more or less close your eyes , you know . |
| 4 | Hewitt ( 1989 : 139 ) , for example , writes : " most locals could more or less accurately tell the race of an unseen adolescent speaker — where non-locals or at least those unfamiliar with inner-London speech might report knowing only that Cockney was being spoken . " |
| 5 | This is quite consistent with Hewitt 's remark that " most locals could more or less accurately tell the race of an unseen adolescent speaker " ( see above ) . |
| 6 | You could more or less see the daylight . |
| 7 | He 'd more or less stopped thinking about money ; he 'd stopped thinking about ordinary living . |
| 8 | PP : No , he 'd more or less crippled himself with bursitis alter four months of conducting Billy Budd . |
| 9 | after er sort of I 'd more or less half a second and I thought oh he 's come back again |
| 10 | Yeah , it was alright but I 'd I 'd more or less just met your mom then you see and I 'd already arranged to go skiing . |
| 11 | And maybe somebody would come to your door and say their wee boy or their girl was making their first communion , and they were in dire straights and could n't buy anything for them , and you would more or less have to give them your book to help them out , but you would go with them so that they did n't go over the score and get just exactly what that wain needed , you know , and just hope that they had enough money to pay you at the end of the quarter , you know . |
| 12 | And that would more or less sterilize it , as sterilized as you 'd , you know , you could ever get anything . |
| 13 | Once ejaculation and orgasm have been achieved by the man his penis will more or less rapidly return to its former size . |
| 14 | If we have the same amount of cold weather this winter as we had last winter , we will more or less double the coverage of the benefit as a result of the changes that I announced earlier this year . |
| 15 | If you do this several times in the course of a clutch being laid , you can more or less double the number of chicks . |
| 16 | Having created ‘ insider ’ groups for their own purposes , political leaders and state officials can more or less ignore ‘ outsider ’ groups . |
| 17 | Once you know the thing consists of electrons and atoms , you can more or less calculate what structure it has , what properties the molecule will have . |
| 18 | You can more or less make soup from anything , though a good home-made stock adds a certain flavour . |
| 19 | I think I can more or less understand in general terms what happens up until sort of the impressionist time , maybe just post-impressionist . |