Example sentences of "[indef pn] more [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leaving everything more or less as it had been and closing the drawer , she turned her attention to the rest of the room . |
| 2 | Brian knows Brian knew everything more or less or arranged quite a few things anyway |
| 3 | They recoil away as if the intruder were unpleasant to them — something more than simply shading them from sunlight . |
| 4 | But as the South-East Asian boom has gathered pace , so the area has become something more than simply Japan 's backyard . |
| 5 | In almost every other respect , certainly , the Celtic Church appears to have been something more than simply a repository for Nazarean thought — as Nestorian Christianity was , for example . |
| 6 | It was becoming something more than just a folk club . |
| 7 | All sorts of little sub-businesses grew after the first month or two and it was at this point that we thought it would be nice to turn it into something more than just a folk club . |
| 8 | Of course , the countryside must continue to be a working landscape ; but if most people 's definition of a river as something more than just a drain is valid , then that broad definition must be consciously built into the brief of those who wield this mighty technology of the JCB , the Hymac , and the Swamp-dozer . |
| 9 | At this stage I felt I had actually discovered something more than just another diet . |
| 10 | It symbolised something more than just a pleasant snack . |
| 11 | They had n't been short of opinions , either , and Dominic Wetherby was now becoming something more than just a name . |
| 12 | The clowns ' convention is , perhaps , Bognor 's way of proclaiming itself as something more than just another commuter dormitory and retirement town on the south coast . |
| 13 | ‘ The historical resistance of the expectations gap , ’ it says , ‘ points to something more than just an ‘ ignorance' ’ gap and suggests there exists scope for the profession to respond more actively to the views and demands of those relying on the audit function . ’ |
| 14 | I do n't know how Dawn really feels about me , whether love or trust mean anything to her or not , but I do know that there is something special between us , and it feels like something more than just conditioning . |
| 15 | By political behaviour is meant something more than just voting behaviour , although that is important and will be addressed . |
| 16 | Something — something more than just missing her — had been vaguely unsettling . |
| 17 | Her vision was starting to blur , with something more than just tears . |
| 18 | She takes her greyhound for walks , and the animal becomes , tactfully , briefly , for half a paragraph or so , something more than just a dog . |
| 19 | You were talking about something more than just a feeling . ’ |
| 20 | Long linear field banks or persistent field boundaries can often be suggested as something more than just divisions in the fields . |
| 21 | What we had something more than just the bean sprouts ? |
| 22 | something more than just erm he 's picked the best people for the job . |
| 23 | There is undeniably something ‘ over-thetop ’ about Rachmaninov 's piano music , a larger-than-life quality that requires larger-than-life treatment , and that extra dash of daring in Wild 's playing ( not for nothing do his fans call him ‘ Wild Earl ’ ) can be relied upon to produce something more than unusually exciting . |
| 24 | If we take literary to mean something more than merely ‘ decorative ’ , then , in a sense , all language may be seen as literary . |
| 25 | The teacher , too , as a fonctionnaire or civil servant , also has authority , which as well as the requirement to deliver to pupils something more or less resembling the words in the programme , includes also the authority to interpret , modify , supplement and extend . |
| 26 | They regarded him as something more or less from outer space , and it was a long time before he and his family felt themselves to be part of the community . |
| 27 | Most plans are like off-the-peg suits , they fit everyone more or less and no one perfectly . |
| 28 | When the village was almost entirely an agricultural community then a case can be made , as we shall see , that the close-knit and overlapping social ties produced a situation in which everyone more or less knew everyone else , but we should be wary of sanctifying the agricultural village with a misplaced nostalgia . |
| 29 | It was not at all necessary to say that I hoisted French colours , and therefore took the schooner unawares , or that at the time most of her men were on board of the Indiaman ; the great art in this world is , to know where to leave off , and in nothing more than when people take the pen in their hands . |
| 30 | ‘ I thought you might wish to know , which is why I enquired of Edita , ’ he replied urbanely , ‘ But I 'm afraid it is nothing more than plain ‘ vepřové řízky plnëné žampióny ’ . ’ |