Example sentences of "more [conj] [adv] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | — the spelling of English was more or less fixed several hundred years ago ; but the pronunciation keeps changing , so that even where a letter once corresponded more or less to a sound , now it may not ; |
| 2 | Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul , for quite different and more fundamental reasons than I 'd disposed of Blyth , and then a year after that I did for my young cousin Esmerelda , more or less on a whim . |
| 3 | erm Yes , now if we get to about half way down there 's a plus in the margin , and the third line in the bracket below that plus , more or less on a level with a three dot , and a little bit below , it says , William , I think it 's Wilkinson , a minister , curate of St Ebbe 's Parish , ‘ his answer that he must attend the burials and christenings ’ , so obviously he could n't work on the fortifications . |
| 4 | She had settled on the bottom with her bows more or less on a north-south line . |
| 5 | And more : ‘ LEGA … represents en bloc the fourth or fifth grouping in Italy , behind IRL , ENI and Fiat , but more or less on a par with Montedison . ’ |
| 6 | Apart from these , the two rival systems were more or less on a par as far as simplicity and accord with observations of planetary positions are concerned . |
| 7 | So it could be used as a preliminary check for patients , more or less on a routine basis ? |
| 8 | He had never married , but his will shows that he regarded Elsynge , his successor in the clerkship , more or less as a son . |
| 9 | " When they were out of a ship they were more or less in a state of intoxication , during which time they were in the society of the very lowest description that could be found . |
| 10 | As a master of the long line himself , Karajan would probably have endorsed some of Boult 's sentiments ( many of Karajan 's recordings have been put down more or less in a series of single takes ) , but he would also have agreed to an extent with Gould that ‘ good splices ’ can also ‘ build good lines ’ . |
| 11 | but erm it had sorted itself out after , well more or less after a week or two a lot of the evacuees of course did n't stay very long , they went back home because erm I know mother had a , a little boy from erm Guildford when we lived at Debenham and er he went back after a while , the mother used to come down and visit him from time to time , they were very , came from very poor circumstances and the |
| 12 | In that sense it 's a glorified soap — and I 've heard it dismissed more than once as a yuppie Dallas , though I find it as difficult to understand how anyone could see it that way as those people would find it to understand how I can curl up , laugh and cry with the characters each week and carry their dilemmas around with me in the days in between . |
| 13 | This figure will be inflated by those who have attended more than once on a Sunday , but , provided that church-going habits do not change , you will still have an accurate trend measure over a number of years , which is our primary interest . |
| 14 | He drank with Brendan Bracken , the red-haired Irishman who many thought was Churchill 's bastard , and slept more than once on a settee in the great man 's flat in Morpeth Mansions when they had all drunk too much whisky — although never while Churchill was in town . |
| 15 | The size of the oligonucleotide will determine whether it occurs more than once in a sample DNA and therefore might prime DNA polymerase activity at multiple sites . |
| 16 | That is , if the same grammatical tag is found more than once in a position it is necessary only to know that the tag occurs in that position and the best scores associated with that tag . |
| 17 | Any café 'll do , but you ca n't use any of them more than once in a while or they start chucking you out . |
| 18 | A few of our players have an awful lot to prove both to themselves and to the fans i.e. Deane ( to score more than once in a game ) , Newsome ( to defend well against good opposition ) , Fairclough ( to prove to the manager that he is one of the best man to man markers in the game ) . |
| 19 | They turned and waited silently as Jackie Tiptoe 's distinctive shape , looking in the queer light more than ever like a gargoyle escaped from a cathedral , made its way across the grass with a swift , hiccupping run . |
| 20 | His immediate superior and his superintendent had departed ten minutes before for a conference at Lewes and he was more than somewhat at a loss . |
| 21 | Our supervisors are skilled tradesmen who are being forced more and more into a teaching role without any kind of recompense for it . |
| 22 | I have … often been worried that we are imposing more and more on a system of collective ministerial decision-taking that was designed for quite a different era . |
| 23 | Travel companies are featuring Japan more and more as a destination in their brochures , and more foreign visitors are encountering the Japanese way of hotels . |
| 24 | Johnny 's wallet lay next to the stud box , and feeling more and more like a sneak-thief , she opened it and looked inside . |
| 25 | ‘ I realised I had to stop putting it in though , ’ Kaye admits , ‘ when a friend of one of my sons told me the house looked more and more like a church every time he came round . ’ |
| 26 | Maisie had told him he was ‘ getting more and more like a spaceman ’ . |
| 27 | The council tax is looking more and more like a repeat of the ghastly poll tax . ’ |
| 28 | Sussex , some long-haired , denim-clad veteran of the sixties complained , was looking more and more like a housing estate for first-time buyers . |
| 29 | The truth of the matter was that even before she had agreed to take over the club she had been plagued more and more by a feeling that she had done all she could do in the music business . |