Example sentences of "more or [adv] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This means that the heads stay in more or less the right position when switching between applications , thus speeding things up a little . |
| 2 | Bumboy not only won : it was more or less the sole survivor . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Giving in , or submissive behaviour , is more or less the opposite side of the coin to aggressive behaviour . |
| 7 | It 's more or less the hard ground . |