Example sentences of "with more or " in BNC.
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| 1 | Delays would increase or decrease , according to whether the court was presented with more or less work than it could handle . |
| 2 | Two of his partners protested promptly that the said Susy was fully deployed on their cases , and Peter Yeo settled down to reorganize the workload , emerging after ten minutes ' hard negotiation with more or less the conclusion he had wanted . |
| 3 | I 'm not sure whether 2nd births are viewed with more or less apprehension . |
| 4 | Arguments about the nature of the redshift in the light From extragalactic objects ( objects outside our own Milky Way galaxy ) have continued with more or less vigour for decades . |
| 5 | In 1986 , Christopher Lewinton was appointed as chief executive with more or less a free hand to do whatever he felt necessary . |
| 6 | Other phrases with more or less the same meaning are nihil obstat ( ‘ nothing hinders ’ ) and cum licentia ( ‘ with licence ’ or ‘ with permission ’ ) . |
| 7 | Again , different ‘ normal ’ individuals play their social roles with more or less commitment and conviction , and the individual 's actual repertoire of roles usually does not exhaust his range . |
| 8 | Weiner ( 1974 ) , for example , added or subtracted counters from rows as two- and three-year-olds watched , and then had the children choose the row with more or with less . |
| 9 | This is the time of year when the end of last season 's growth slides imperceptibly into the beginning of the next 's , with more or less of a halt depending on the weather . |
| 10 | And if we recognise our true position as skilled labourers performing with more or less ability a given portion of a comp 's duties , it would be utterly absurd for you to propose , or us to expect , equal remuneration with men which I suppose is what you mean by insisting on getting the true value of our labour . |
| 11 | There are those with mandibulate or biting mouthparts , such as the Orthopteroid orders and the Coleoptera , those with piercing and suctorial mouthparts such as the Hemiptera , Siphunculata , Siphonaptera and some Diptera , and those with more or less elongate , haustellate mouthparts adapted for taking up liquids without piercing ( e.g. Lepidoptera and some Diptera and Hymenoptera ) . |
| 12 | My beliefs — the things I use words to express , with more or less success — must be true . |
| 13 | Were looking at the body beautiful and what we do to achieve it , we all arrived in the world with more or less the same package of features , limbs , faces , torso 's , since then , all of us I bet have tried to improve or disguise the way we look , what do we do ? , why do we do it ? , well let's start with a few questions , er , are you , well let me ask you this do you have a beautiful body ? , button one for yes , and button two for no |
| 14 | They picked their way carefully over the leads of numerous labradors , terriers and springers anchored with more or less acquiescence , to bits of their owners ' persons . |
| 15 | They also adopted a different approach to that adopted by Lyell J , but they all came up with more or less the same figure at the end of the day , around £54,000 . |
| 16 | That 's right , it 's different for different people over there , I mean Mark over there who has n't been with the company very long erm , I mean , my existing calls I mean I , I know them sort of to , to drink with more or less you know , but |