Example sentences of "more [conj] [adv] [art] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | … Trouble with going back to the old days , the [ agency ] was more or less a family concern . |
| 2 | That particular trip was more or less a carbon copy of the previous one . |
| 3 | I would say to you that the history of North Yorkshire County is that the house house builders have built , more or less the building rate of planning policy , whatever that has been , and that is a matter of fact , and if and if and if we are in a situation where the market is being fettered , as is the policy , and it 's not a policy which we are seeking to go away from specifically , and it is inevitable that the house builders will build to whatever the policy building rate is , and comparisons of one building rate with another are simply telling you what 's happened in the past , not what needs to happen in the future er in terms of meeting the housing requirement , and quite clearly in any area where you are introducing a new settlement , if indeed that 's the conclusion we come to , er late later on , erm and I hope we do , but if we are introducing a new settlement you are bound to skew the building rates , and the more and more you reduce the area in which you consider what the building rate effect is the more and more that it actually gets skewed , er and erm you know , quite frankly , when the developers built a new estate at the end of my particular street the building rate went up alarmingly in my area , er and er you know , we can go on forever like that , I just think it 's very misleading to just deal with the judgement of building rates . |
| 4 | We 've already reviewed the SoundBlaster Pro — indeed most of us at Practical PC have one in our machines — and know it to be more or less the industry standard for PC sound . |
| 5 | ‘ Stepping Out ’ — it was more or less the record company 's idea ; it was like ‘ stepping out ’ of Genesis . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ The thing is her song is more or less the Dublin anthem , she is a link to the past , to our parents and our grandparents . ’ |
| 7 | The move is more or less an insurance policy that Apple will at least have a place as a client in the enterprise . |
| 8 | The move is more or less an insurance policy that Apple will at least have a place as a client in the enterprise . |
| 9 | It was my own experiences with herbal treatments , due to being ill over the past few years , that convinced me that there was more than just a placebo effect at work . |
| 10 | But it was more than just a pub crawl . |
| 11 | So test-tube fusion was more than just a media event with dollars on the line for the University of Utah , there were many private agendas riding along with it . |
| 12 | Now the stereo isomerism is all about spatial chemistry , much more than just the way things are attached . |
| 13 | I found that the power-management features could more than double the battery life . |
| 14 | Unfortunately for the credibility of the Northern Ireland administration , murders during December 1972 numbered twenty which was more than double the November figure . |
| 15 | SMALL investors rushed for a slice of the stock market newcomer , Pizza Express , boosting the share price to more than twice the 40p institutions paid last month . |
| 16 | The UK government will issue health warnings about low-level ozone pollution only when it reaches 200 parts per billion — more than twice the safety threshold of 75 parts per billion set by the World Health Organization ( WHO ) . |
| 17 | Using a magnetometer , they found that only in the bones of the sinuses was magnetic remanence more than twice the background level — and in those bones it was up to 13 times background . |
| 18 | Similarly , we have already encountered the question posed by The Architect 's Journal when Cramlington was first proposed in its modern form : will this place have any industrial , and hence employment , base which will make it more than merely a dormitory suburb ? |
| 19 | Then , as Mike became more and more the lead guitarist , I played more and more bass . |