Example sentences of "more or [adv] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked in what I hoped was more or less a normal voice . |
| 2 | That means it was for use in climates and countries so benign that the natives require no shelter at all , and where a tent is more or less a decorative affectation . |
| 3 | All the models of passive rifting discussed so far assume that rifting is more or less a symmetric process ; that is , we would expect the opposing passive margins formed through continental break-up to have a similar structure and morphology because they have experienced a similar tectonic history . |
| 4 | As I see it , Rocky 's been playing in the wide midfield role ( more or less a direct replacement for Strach ) , with Fairclough playing as a direct replacement for Batty , and Macca and Speed in more central roles . |
| 5 | ‘ We had more or less a free hand . |
| 6 | The Education Minister in the AIG , Farooq Azam was reported on July 2 as having resigned claiming that it was " more or less a dead organization " . |
| 7 | Not only might religious education ( and the compulsory school assembly , already more or less a dead letter in many schools ) be abandoned , but the obligation to give sex education or moral instruction might also go by the board . |
| 8 | have a job getting out of them and er you know more or less the higher chair 's |
| 9 | This means that the heads stay in more or less the right position when switching between applications , thus speeding things up a little . |
| 10 | It was more or less the first thing we checked . ’ |
| 11 | Bumboy not only won : it was more or less the sole survivor . |
| 12 | But , as James Fenton wrote in a piece about The Killing Fields published in Tatler , with specific reference to Al Rockoff : ‘ More or less the only thing you do is try to get as close as possible to people who are killing each other — and take photographs of them . |
| 13 | Another result of the ease and availability of the Pill is an assumption that this is more or less the only method of birth control . |
| 14 | If animals , particularly mature birds and the higher mammals , are taken as possessing more or less the full range of human capacities , with the exception perhaps of moral agency , and if the only dissimilarity is that the capacities are manifested in more limited ways , then there will be an almost irresistible temptation to give them moral status approaching that of recently discovered Stone Age tribes such as the Dani of Irian Jaya . |
| 15 | Giving in , or submissive behaviour , is more or less the opposite side of the coin to aggressive behaviour . |
| 16 | It 's more or less the hard ground . |
| 17 | ‘ Hippy ’ on the flip is more or less the same song with the addition of a fuzzbox . |
| 18 | Unfortunately it does n't work like that — you know that two cars of the same make will drive in more or less the same way , but two horses of the same size , shape and age can be totally different . |
| 19 | I remained a TV reporter , doing more or less the same kind of interviews as for TWW . |
| 20 | It was something I wanted to do , but i I did n't know that until it started to happen , and then with the removal business too it 's more or less the same kind of thing . |
| 21 | Perhaps the most interesting property of all , though , is that the range of sizes present at any one point in an air-fall pumice deposit is rather restricted , so that the fragments tend to be all more or less the same size , or to put it formally , the deposit is said to be well-sorted . |
| 22 | They are situated on practically adjoining hills and are more or less the same distance away from Gubbio . |
| 23 | She told me more or less the same story as Eric — that they are reserving double the usual amount of space for Jefferson over the second half of the year . ’ |
| 24 | But if we look at distant galaxies , there seems to be more or less the same number of them . |
| 25 | The ‘ heavies ’ all carried more or less the same picture of a statuesque blonde , at first sight naked , standing on the rostrum , her arm outstretched in the direction of Sir Charles Webb-Bowen , whose incredulous , even leery expression , was later to be the cause of much hilarity . |
| 26 | A couple of winters ago , caught out on a patch of ice , she 'd had a mild argument with a lamppost , damaging more or less the same spot that had been damaged again today . |
| 27 | When partners are more or less the same age , this slower response will be balanced by the older man 's more delayed reactions . |
| 28 | They wear more , more or less the same sort of er material through the year . |
| 29 | well this people I mean with , with , that I mean that really is more or less the same amount as the other companies have said for er more or less the whole lot , so why the wardrobes are so cheap and yet the , the bed surrounding is so expensive , we do n't know |
| 30 | The station itself was being supervised by a presiding officer ( £96.55 ) doing more or less the same thing . |