Example sentences of "more [conj] [adv] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | , that was in the middle , more or less in the middle of the town . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They are more or less in the position that teachers will be when they receive the published item . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ The Yard put me on to six other McCloys all more or less in the hardware business or on its fringes . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I have no doubt that the hon. Gentleman accepts them — although it is true that he has surprised me more than once in the past by failing to agree with the most obvious proposition . |
| 13 | She comforted him ; and meanwhile thought to herself that tomorrow she would go round the managers she knew , having met them more than once in the company of Papa . |
| 14 | Each calls for political decision , frequently more than once in the course of hammering out a policy . |
| 15 | For the avoidance of doubt , no asset or liability or provision shall be included more than once in the completion accounts . |
| 16 | For the avoidance of doubt , no asset or liability or provision shall be included more than once in the completion accounts . |
| 17 | Hence , fathers are counted once only in the birth certificate analysis , but may appear more than once in the interview analysis . |
| 18 | [ I ] t seems to me that we are moving more and more in the direction of an elective dictatorship , not the less objectionable in principle because it is inefficient in practice , and not the less tyrannical in its nature because the opposed parties , becoming more and more polarized in their attitudes , seek with some prospects of success to seize the new levers of power and use them alternately to reverse the direction taken by their immediate predecessors . |
| 19 | The emphasis in the human rights movement supported by this relativism is more and more in the direction of a hidden pragmatism . |
| 20 | Other techniques , such as echo-sounding and soil scanning radar , are currently being developed , and are likely to be used more and more in the future for accurate location and surveying of sites . |