Example sentences of "[coord] less [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now that was er er more or less a favour to me . |
| 2 | There 's no rules in our business , but there 's more or less a convention that we do n't kill each other . |
| 3 | I am more or less a consultant to them . ’ |
| 4 | A Celtic win was more or less a formality . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Yet the London we inherited from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is more or less a success . |
| 7 | … Trouble with going back to the old days , the [ agency ] was more or less a family concern . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I was n't in the actual throe er , er I wa I 've always been more or less a loner . |
| 10 | In examining colloquial English it is often more or less a matter of arbitrary choice how one transcribes such a word . |
| 11 | This design was , as was the Karrier model , based on and more or less a facsimile of the ‘ Wolverton Coupling ’ . |
| 12 | No I do n't , but So it 's more or less a threesome if anything at all . |
| 13 | That particular trip was more or less a carbon copy of the previous one . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | more or less every day to day |
| 17 | After that first one in The Crown and Sceptre kitchen , Chris took the chair more or less every week for the next three years . |
| 18 | Of the outside world , I had more or less no knowledge . |
| 19 | It appears that more or less the company would do it . |
| 20 | it was just more or less They they certainly would n't have food or anything like that I think it was just more or less the supplier or That would be |
| 21 | We , when we were dredging , we were dredging now from Cliff Quay and er used to get all this er grey mud and erm and the chalk and when we used to dredge , we got down to chalk er , more or less the depth we wanted to go and anybody dredging down there today if they dredge the chalk at Cliff Quay that 's the depth of water you want and erm then we dredged erm just below erm and then we went to Freston Freston we were dredging peat . |
| 22 | Ellen was adamantly opposed to the first two and a noisy supporter of the last two , while my position was more or less the opposite . |
| 23 | Liquid Crystals These are more or less the opposite to glass . |
| 24 | As we have seen , some of the earlier and more enthusiastic apologists for pluralism , such as Dahl and Plamenatz , did suggest both that the spread of pressure and interest groups covered more or less the whole of society and also that such groups competed with each other on a roughly equal basis . |
| 25 | You know sometimes the way forward is backward , there are no short cuts with god , if he 's leading along a certain path and were disobedient , there 's no way we can opt out of it and join the trail further along , he does n't allow it , its back to where we left it , that 's were we 've got ta get back to , we ca n't skip an experience , we ca n't miss any thing out , we 've got to go back to where we start , where we were when we left the trail and Naomi has to do just that to go back to Bethlehem , that 's the way forward for her , and you see because we all , we always find this if we are really children of god , then we can never ever be satisfied away from the will of god , there 's nothing else that meets our need , its god will or nothing , you know , when we know frustration in our lives , when we know sort of the , these annoyances and , and , and , and er sense of frustration there , its not because god is leaving us that way its invariably cos we have actually gone out of gods will because he 's will is not frustrated , its satisfying , can I just , it will only really be headings this morning , just leave us with three brief headings in this little incident that we 'll read or we , we wo n't read the whole passage but its , er in the remainder of the , or more or less the whole of the remainder of the first chapter tha that the cost was involved and then the choices that were made and then the commitment , the cost that was involved Naomi had to pay something , you see before she could return to Naomi she had to con , before Naomi sorry could return er to , to Bethlehem , she had to acknowledge she 'd done wrong , she had failed , she had sinned , she had to acknowledge she had made a mistake now in fairness to Naomi she did it and she excepted her responsibility , she did n't try and shift the blame on |
| 26 | As long as power oscillated between two evenly-balanced parties , who shared more or less the whole of the vote , the election of a minority government did n't matter too much . |
| 27 | This was more or less the case throughout the West Indies , although attitudes in Barbados were undoubtedly narrower than elsewhere . |
| 28 | Erm , yes that is more or less the case . |
| 29 | At more or less the middle of the night , every night , for a week , I 'd been woken first by one child crying , then by two , then by three . |
| 30 | On passing a sentence of imprisonment of two years or less the Act empowered a court to suspend the sentence by ordering that it should not take effect unless during a specified period the offender committed another offence punishable by imprisonment . |