Example sentences of "more [conj] [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it 's more or less on the way to your place at Kew . " |
| 2 | Cos you 're nearly , you know , more or less on the corner there anyway are n't you ? |
| 3 | It 's not what they hope to see , but it 's more or less on the spot of what once was the herb garden for the monks of Shrewsbury Abbey . |
| 4 | Well they did n't mind catching them that these here gamekeepers they come on more or less at the finish of the harvest over the field with the guns what was left . |
| 5 | A lamb remains a lamb until it loses its milk teeth , more or less at the end of the year , and — if it has n't lost its life as well by then — it becomes a hogget . |
| 6 | Hermes Trismegistus emerged from Egypt more or less at the time in which Zoroaster and the Magi became respected figures among the Greeks : they will have to be considered together . |
| 7 | Otherwise you 'd be out more or less into the night because you got to go and see the men at night you see ? |
| 8 | More or less since the end of the Second World War , Karajan had been fascinated by the challenge of music on film . |
| 9 | That is foolish of him , because we have discovered that there is agreement more or less across the spectrum . |
| 10 | , that was in the middle , more or less in the middle of the town . |
| 11 | I used to roam all just round the country , round this area , which was all fields at that time and when you got at top , top of you were more or less in the country . |
| 12 | Then , of course , the other side was his interest in Child Education , and he had been more or less in the outset of the exciting development which had been going on in Vienna , and had come back with all kinds of ideas . |
| 13 | They are more or less in the position that teachers will be when they receive the published item . |
| 14 | I often think that perhaps putting the hub of the sails in , more or less in the centre of the picture perhaps , not the best place , but I think because in this case , we 've got a lot of trees down to the bottom here . |
| 15 | Although the , the hub of the sails is more or less in the centre of this photograph it 's not in sent not in the sense of , of the area of vision because you 've got a lot of dark area here so that tends to move the centre of vision so it becomes this bit , if you like , and so that 's not in the centre there . |
| 16 | Clearly television is not the only reason for falling gates — affluence and a consequently greater variety of choice in entertainment , a desire to participate in physical exercise rather than watch , hooliganism , suburban family-centredness , and feminism are other factors all pulling more or less in the direction of declining live attendance . |
| 17 | As we shall see in the next chapter , in natural materials like wood , the long-chain molecules are arranged roughly parallel to the length of the tree , that is to say , more or less in the direction of the most important stresses . |
| 18 | ‘ The Yard put me on to six other McCloys all more or less in the hardware business or on its fringes . |
| 19 | The 1950s saw the birth of the New Novel , more or less in the coronation year of 1953 , with the first published fictions of Kingsley Amis , Iris Murdoch and William Golding : polemical still , but intent now on reviving a tradition of realism that had flourished first in eighteenth-century England , with Defoe and Fielding , and had faded somewhat in critical reputation in the inter-war years ; and a revived realism spread rapidly into theatre , with John Osborne 's Look Back in Anger ( 1956 ) and the first dramatic experiments of Harold Pinter . |
| 20 | I suppose that this is a small matter to mention , but allowing for a slight extension to the 24 hours of the second day , the negotiation was completed more or less in the time allotted — a remarkable feat and a testimony to the profound drafting and negotiating skills of many of the member states and many of the governmental teams . |
| 21 | Well the o , well more or less from the time we got in she 's not gon na go back to that place |
| 22 | This means that they had had a heightened awareness of their own mortality more or less throughout the disability career . |
| 23 | Woolley patrolled the squadron and gave a brisk burst more or less behind the tail of anyone he considered to be holding back . |
| 24 | We can imagine someone saying : ‘ We understand ‘ It 's afternoon ’ from our own case , that is , from our experience on Earth of , for example , seeing the Sun more than half-way across the sky as we recline in our garden chairs after lunch . |
| 25 | Earlier I said that we can imagine someone saying : ‘ We understand ‘ It 's afternoon ’ from our own case , that is , from our experience on Earth of , for example , seeing the Sun more than half-way across the sky , and so on . |
| 26 | At the end of the last century when Impressionism was still a dirty word in England , and anyone who bought a Monet was considered as being more than half-way on the road to Bedlam , the Americans were taking to him with something of the enthusiasm which they were then displaying for the newly discovered chewing-gum . |
| 27 | A PUBLICAN faces jail after being convicted of causing the death of a 16-year-old jogger by driving dangerously while more than twice over the drink drive limit . |
| 28 | Sean Thompson , 52 , was more than twice over the limit when he was stopped on the way home from the station . |
| 29 | No one had ever been more than twice round the Bay in those conditions and survived . ’ |
| 30 | The school 's headteacher Mary Parkin said the line of coins stretched more than twice round the hall . |