Example sentences of "more [coord] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the building is of more or less one period , it is still nonetheless a higgledy-piggledy place to find one 's way about in , as though the builders had not planned it as a whole but acted on whims and perhaps the need to accommodate an expanding family . |
| 2 | It was evidently widely felt that its representatives were capable of more or less any form of major misdemeanour . |
| 3 | Even though the mountain goat can eat more or less any plant material , there is seldom enough to go round , and the availability and whereabouts of food vary throughout the year . |
| 4 | We do more or less everything together . |
| 5 | Is n't that more or less how most people go on ? ’ |
| 6 | In Damage , from Josephine Hart 's novel , he gets more or less everything wrong from the word go . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He learnt that he could make love and come both in haste and with impressive slowness , for five minutes or for three hours , without asking either for more or for less time from his partner but fitting in with their timing . |
| 9 | Children who know the meaning of more or of both more and less are careful to distinguish them from each other and from nonsense words introduced in the same setting . |
| 10 | Whether they give rise to more or to less planning blight than the old development plan system is debatable . |
| 11 | When children who knew more and less did respond , they were consistent in differentiating their response from what they had done for more and for less . |
| 12 | Compared with the older production system , this new process , in which workers owned no machinery but were paid wages , was able to produce more and at a cheaper price . |
| 13 | seventeen and since then people have discovered more and in a sense the list is more or less limitless . |
| 14 | Fat chance , she thought in despair , but little by little , when nothing happened to unsettle her , she was able to relax more and in doing so became aware of all the little things she had missed before — the warmth of his back against her chest , the firm feel of his waist under her hands , the slight shift of his thighs against hers as he changed gear . |
| 15 | The Renaissance is not the early modern period , it is an additional something more and by breaking the equation , Renaissance = early modern , the Renaissance is no longer a stable controllable thing . |
| 16 | The foresters , both riding and walking , and their pages take for a cart two , three or four shillings , from some more and from others less according to their means , and for a pack-horse twelve , sixteen or eighteen pence , to raise their fine which they have made with the warden for their appointment ; this to the great destruction of the King 's forest and the grievance of those who have woods in the forest , for they suffer the carriers to go quit all through the year without attachment , and yet the King has no profit … |
| 17 | One thousand buildings have been constructed to these standards at costs of one per cent more but with a resulting 40 per cent cut in heating bills . |
| 18 | [ Mond is said to have complained , away back in the 1880s , that his company was n't concentrating on chemistry any more but on making money , a complaint perhaps most easily made by those who have already acquired as much money as they can reasonable need . ] |
| 19 | There was more but in laymen 's terms it was a breakthrough . |