Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [conj] less [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the ‘ they ’ of more or less the whole town will have heard too . |
| 2 | Liam Brady 's choice of more or less the side who lost to Falkirk in the Scottish Cup the previous weekend — Rudi Vata was replaced by Brian O'Neil — was not so much a vote of confidence as a challenge to those players to prove they could not be so bad again . |
| 3 | In 1986 , Christopher Lewinton was appointed as chief executive with more or less a free hand to do whatever he felt necessary . |
| 4 | Two of his partners protested promptly that the said Susy was fully deployed on their cases , and Peter Yeo settled down to reorganize the workload , emerging after ten minutes ' hard negotiation with more or less the conclusion he had wanted . |
| 5 | Other phrases with more or less the same meaning are nihil obstat ( ‘ nothing hinders ’ ) and cum licentia ( ‘ with licence ’ or ‘ with permission ’ ) . |
| 6 | Were looking at the body beautiful and what we do to achieve it , we all arrived in the world with more or less the same package of features , limbs , faces , torso 's , since then , all of us I bet have tried to improve or disguise the way we look , what do we do ? , why do we do it ? , well let's start with a few questions , er , are you , well let me ask you this do you have a beautiful body ? , button one for yes , and button two for no |
| 7 | They also adopted a different approach to that adopted by Lyell J , but they all came up with more or less the same figure at the end of the day , around £54,000 . |
| 8 | They should devote themselves wholly to the problem of making life in South Africa , regarded as more or less a foreign country , bearable for self-respecting British men and women . |
| 9 | As long as you can stay reasonably flexible a well-planned interview structure will make comparisons between candidates much easier because all candidates will have been put through more or less the same hoops . |
| 10 | Now he appears as a policeman , but in more or less the same character , as the star of his own series . |
| 11 | Although they describe harvest feasts in an opposed manner , Leapor and Duck are engaged in more or less the same argument . |
| 12 | That the owners are not described may imply that they have withdrawn from the close relations with tenants , servants , and labourers that is called for from lords of the manor ; they have grown remote in more or less the way described by Bloomfield in his discussion of the harvest feast . |
| 13 | It appears to be aimed squarely at what the Americans would call a ‘ resort diver ’ , rather than someone like me who dives several times a week in more or less the same areas . |
| 14 | Damage is calculated in more or less the same way as a stone thrower . |
| 15 | It was then widely believed that the universe was static , yet if space , and particularly time , were curved back on themselves , how could the universe continue forever in more or less the same state as it is at the present time ? |
| 16 | The universe existed and would continue to exist forever in more or less the same state as it is today . |
| 17 | I had dressed as well as I could that morning , in more or less the same stuff I 'd worn for Grandma Margot 's funeral . |
| 18 | It should be remembered , however , that the great majority of inland sewage works themselves ultimately discharge their treated effluents to open watercourses , subject to more or less the same kinds of constraint as other dischargers . |
| 19 | ‘ Awards ceremonies seem to adhere to more or less the same format the world over , ’ Maria commented , betraying slight disappointment . |
| 20 | Indeed , the threatened coal strike of 1925 , which occurred at more or less the same time , seemed to confirm this impression . |
| 21 | Miss Kenton and my father had arrived at the house at more or less the same time — that is to say , the spring of 1922 — as a consequence of my losing at one stroke the previous housekeeper and under-butler . |
| 22 | ( Johnston 1976 , p. 217 ) At more or less the same time , Laura Mulvey took the discussion of women 's desire and fantasy out of the realm of the ideological/symbolic . |
| 23 | When both partners retire at more or less the same time , the adjustment is often easiest to organise . |
| 24 | At more or less the same time , a heroin injector from Liverpool , who had also been dealing to finance his own habit , moved house to one of Wirral 's more affluent townships and began dealing in heroin on a large scale-in ounces and half-ounces . |
| 25 | Is there any reason why the same debate , or a debate on the same question , should not be conducted at more or less the same time in a great number of different places ? |
| 26 | It is no coincidence that expressions of the ‘ pro-Palestinian ’ and ‘ pro-Zionist ’ factions have occurred in rival publications at more or less the same time . |
| 27 | At more or less the middle of the night , every night , for a week , I 'd been woken first by one child crying , then by two , then by three . |
| 28 | The principal objective of the budget was to hold the public deficit for 1990 at more or less the same level in absolute terms as for 1989 , thereby reducing it from 11 per cent to 10.4 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) . |
| 29 | Amaranth fell into a gentle sleep at more or less the same time as did the bulk of Sir Teddy Taylor 's conference audience . |
| 30 | Partly this was a matter of timing : both approaches penetrated the mainstream of macroeconomics at more or less the same time . |