Example sentences of "[vb base] more or less " in BNC.
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| 1 | Medved muddies the waters by treating cinema , television and pop more or less as a single entity . |
| 2 | Always wear clothes to reveal your shape when having these taken , and adopt more or less the same poses . |
| 3 | Ask a dozen American curators about Earl A. Powell III , the new Director of the National Gallery , Washington , and you get more or less the same general response : ‘ If you were having lunch with Rusty ( his nickname that everyone uses ) and did n't know what he did for a living , you would think he was either an Assistant Secretary of the Navy , a General Manager of General Motors , or a football coach . |
| 4 | An American Congregationalist , for example , saw no possibility of uniting with Rome and every reason for not uniting with Rome — let us join the Churches which teach more or less the truth , not the Churches which do not . |
| 5 | Do people participate more or less in villages , towns or cities ? |
| 6 | One can not , he says , discriminate more or less . |
| 7 | The nymphs remain with their mother through one or two moults , infecting and reinforcing one another , and they may go on doing this after they leave the nest , as the young of any one year remain more or less together in a loose family association . |
| 8 | Persia , Mesopotamia and Egypt remain more or less where Hellenistic erudition put them as the holders of barbarian wisdom . |
| 9 | There are also several economic unions which operate more or less in a bloc-like manner . |
| 10 | In a typical monogamous bird like the robin , the male and female stay more or less apart during the non-breeding season , and only pair up shortly before breeding . |
| 11 | Most of us apply more or less the same old lotions , creams and make-up all year round through force of habit . |
| 12 | No , I assure you of that but , well , for one thing the Elsie I knew made it clear to me that she wished to make a new life for herself , start more or less from scratch . |
| 13 | Orcs exist more or less everywhere in the Old World , in the lands to the east , and in the far north western realm of Naggaroth beyond the Sea of Chaos . |
| 14 | In what ways , and in terms of which resources , do more or less ‘ viable ’ areas in the same city differ ? |
| 15 | They are , of course , incapable of deliberate volition and move more or less at random ( although there is thought to be some evidence of a directional trend ) . |
| 16 | Although care should be taken to choose varieties that ripen more or less at the same time to avoid losses , dredge mixtures are generally cut green and dried like hay to be fed ‘ on the straw ’ or made into silage . |
| 17 | ‘ Once you 've got that basic drawing of a person sitting sideways on a chair , if you draw straight lines around him you 've more or less got a pyramid shape . |
| 18 | Particularly where you 've more or less got the idea of it but you think you just want to sort of tidy up a few details an |
| 19 | Distinguished from all other true geese by having its whole face white , with crown , nape and neck black ; rest of plumage mainly grey more or less barred black and white . |
| 20 | There , the iso-reflectance lines follow more or less the stratigraphic contours ( cf. |
| 21 | We work more or less in the same area but had n't talked to one another for a long time . |
| 22 | Like the HMIs , I have more or less avoided this question so far , mainly by talking about ‘ curriculum managers ’ . |
| 23 | Most of the 16-year-olds say their fathers have more or less told them to ‘ go out and have a good time ’ . |
| 24 | Nor did he see another consequence , as his nephew Mauss confessed , shortly before going mad : ‘ how large modern societies which have more or less emerged from the Middle Ages in other respects , could be hypnotized as aborigines are by their dances and set in motion like a child 's carousel . |
| 25 | Romero had in mind a much more ambitious script in which the zombies have more or less taken over , except in an island enclave where soldiers have trained them into an army and scientists are devising ways of using them as slaves . |
| 26 | The series of Horta heads all have more or less the same basic subdivision into several clearly defined areas . |