Example sentences of "more [coord] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , I think it fair to say that if you 'd asked more or less to the next meeting and probably sub-committee would be quite , quite acceptable and I would thank you for drawing it to our to our attention . |
| 2 | But I 'd dealt more or less with the small firms even to the the extent of collecting dues . |
| 3 | Although care should be taken to choose varieties that ripen more or less at the same time to avoid losses , dredge mixtures are generally cut green and dried like hay to be fed ‘ on the straw ’ or made into silage . |
| 4 | Medved muddies the waters by treating cinema , television and pop more or less as a single entity . |
| 5 | There are also several economic unions which operate more or less in a bloc-like manner . |
| 6 | We work more or less in the same area but had n't talked to one another for a long time . |
| 7 | ‘ I had to take him on more or less from the first . |
| 8 | Worse still , interest rates shot up and Romania had to pay more and more to the Western banks simply to service the debt . |
| 9 | Now it 's perfectly now the cost er the benefits from sort of marketing right to buy is really very , very dubious erm the government has shown time and again that what it takes then gives with one hand , it takes away with another and the costs are obvious , we are fragmenting our housing stock , we are putting it , we are likely to end up with more and more with a higher proportion of poor properties and erm there 's also the risk that if we do really have to be promoting right to buy we 're going to have people who are probably not sure whether they can afford to buy their house or are n't sure whether they even want to buy their house . |
| 10 | The image of the real parents contrasts more and more with the early infantile one , and this contrast includes others who become part of the superego , teachers and other authority figures … today we have the following problem : the inhibiting , controlling , and guiding function of the superego , which largely merges with the ego , is weakened through the weakness of the parents , through indulgent education which fails to train the ego , and through the general social climate of permissiveness . |
| 11 | At the same time , at the level of practical pedagogy , there is a counter-tendency in the study of the national canon to concentrate more and more on a small and diminishing number of texts . |
| 12 | Although the advertising industry is almost promiscuous in its use of verbal slogans , the creative emphasis falls more and more upon the persuasive power of imagery — slow motion shots demonstrating the lustrous lightness of newly washed hair , or the soft resilience of freshly laundered towels — in fact it would be tiresome to list the repertoire of non-verbal devices deliberately designed to by-pass a critical vigilance based upon language . |
| 13 | John Smith sounds more and more like a left-of-centre Conservative minister . |
| 14 | For Acheson , who became Secretary of State in January 1949 , as for most of the Administration , Congress and probably most of the American people , and as a straight and simple choice , France was more important than Vietnam or Indo-China and more valuable than a party aspiring to be government which , in spite of impeccable anti-colonial credentials and its ability to present itself as all things to all men , was beginning to look more and more like an affiliated communist state . |
| 15 | It has always been noticed that information technology skills , of which we shall need more and more in the coming years , have tended to lag behind the demand for those skills . |