Example sentences of "more [conj] [adv] [adj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The aim of the research is to study the way the government has attempted to combine the various objectives , which , despite much talk in the past , have never been seriously linked , as planning had more or less disappeared over the period 1970-81 . |
| 2 | The average age at which people marry remained more or less stable for the preceding two centuries until the end of the Second World War , when it began to fall , but there were notable changes in the pattern of childbearing , especially between 1870 and 1930 . |
| 3 | At the top end the bourgeoisie was more or less distinct from the aristocracy ( high or low ) , depending partly on the legal and social exclusiveness of that group or on its own class-consciousness . |
| 4 | No I think they 'd got to a point where , you know , if you , if you were about erm , they made sure they were the first ones there like the and they , I think they more or less recognized by the merchants they , they were the boatmen . |
| 5 | When Newton had progressed that far in the programme , following a path that had presented itself as more or less necessary from the outset , he began to be concerned about the match between his theory and observation . |
| 6 | – The Russian peasants hardly began to migrate into the open spaces of Siberia before 1880 , though they moved in large numbers into the steppes of European Russia , whose settlement was more or less complete by the 1880s . |
| 7 | It came to include the policy for polytechnics , that is — a measure of concentration — announced in the 1966 White Paper , and more or less finalized in a Parliamentary statement in April 1967 , when Crosland announced confirmation of a list of twenty-eight polytechnics in England and Wales , leaving open the possibility of two more . |
| 8 | Chuck it over the fence and it 'll go straight in , more or less straight in the trailer wo n't it ? |
| 9 | For instance we had no place to keep our er records , we had er minute books er we used to receive minutes from the management for example , after our monthly meeting with them , er and they were more or less dictated by the er personnel department , who were present at the meeting . |
| 10 | The share and rate of profit and the accumulation rate more or less stabilized at the very high levels established over the previous six years . |
| 11 | Mistletoe flowers appear to mimic nutritionally rich fruits , the fruits of the previous season being more or less contemporary with the new flowers . |
| 12 | Some of the key questions to be addressed are : Has the UK income distribution become more or less equal over the last 10-15 years ? |
| 13 | And Angela Hampel one of the GDR 's leading feminists now realises that while men and women were more or less equal in an impoverished communist society , in the capitalist West the great divide looms ever wider . |
| 14 | The rest of the afternoon had been more or less normal for the time of year except that Ted had been following Pete around for most of it , trying to pump him for details of what had happened between him and Diane Jackson . |
| 15 | Unlike BR , where the decline has been virtually continuous , numbers in RENFE were more or less static between the mid-1970s and 1984 . |
| 16 | Did the population remain more or less static after the dramatic decline in the second half of the fourteenth century , or did it make a rapid recovery from the first wave of epidemics ? |
| 17 | From the outside , the immediate impression is one of a traditional culture , with its own way of going on , more or less impenetrable to an outsider . |
| 18 | Our conversation more or less hinged on the fact that he was Vietnamese , so I do n't know why I forgot . |
| 19 | " The gentlemen who sat on the bench were more or less connected with the shipping trade , and the law had been somewhat strained to obtain the conviction " . |
| 20 | Thus Sunni power came to be founded upon Shia poverty , the first more or less conditional upon the second . |
| 21 | Yes , my wife is more or less unrecognizable in every way . |
| 22 | WHILE the doolally correspondence continues with old India hands by the dozen becoming involved , other words meaning idiot , and more or less exclusive to the North-East , are drying up . |
| 23 | Yeah , I know you can feel those there , they 're just more or less flush with the heads . |
| 24 | And so she 's more or less chained to a desk then is she ? |
| 25 | Booz , Allen & Hamilton was forced to close down its executive search division in 1980 , when serious problems surfaced as a result of trying to carry on a recruiting business whilst at the same time having 3000 management consultancy clients on their books , who were more or less off-limits from the point of view of providing candidates for headhunting . |
| 26 | But I think it is reasonable to observe that the major issues of the Falklands War were more or less written in the stars . |
| 27 | They moved on to Warkworth , on the coast , where Forster was now more or less elected to the post of James 's general in England , though he and his followers knew little of the art of war , being described by one observer as ‘ fox hunters armed with dress swords ’ . |
| 28 | In other regions we see scattered developments , again of figures which appear more or less subsidiary to the whole design . |
| 29 | Rex and Moore 's classification was based upon research in the Sparkbrook area of Birmingham , and it is more or less time-specific to the mid-1960s and applicable to medium-to large-sized cities . |
| 30 | Note the Weberian , and even Nietzschean , notion of a ‘ charisma of creativity ’ implicit here , in which artists , scientists , and religious heroes are more or less interchangeable in the role of prophet . |