Example sentences of "[adv] or less [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | — the spelling of English was more or less fixed several hundred years ago ; but the pronunciation keeps changing , so that even where a letter once corresponded more or less to a sound , now it may not ; |
| 2 | And more : ‘ LEGA … represents en bloc the fourth or fifth grouping in Italy , behind IRL , ENI and Fiat , but more or less on a par with Montedison . ’ |
| 3 | Apart from these , the two rival systems were more or less on a par as far as simplicity and accord with observations of planetary positions are concerned . |
| 4 | She had settled on the bottom with her bows more or less on a north-south line . |
| 5 | Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul , for quite different and more fundamental reasons than I 'd disposed of Blyth , and then a year after that I did for my young cousin Esmerelda , more or less on a whim . |
| 6 | So it could be used as a preliminary check for patients , more or less on a routine basis ? |
| 7 | erm Yes , now if we get to about half way down there 's a plus in the margin , and the third line in the bracket below that plus , more or less on a level with a three dot , and a little bit below , it says , William , I think it 's Wilkinson , a minister , curate of St Ebbe 's Parish , ‘ his answer that he must attend the burials and christenings ’ , so obviously he could n't work on the fortifications . |
| 8 | These indicate that three strands have been plied together ; they are obviously thicker and knit up more or less as a double knitting type yarn . |
| 9 | Foucault has even been accused of returning , in this work , to the concept of a totality in the episteme ; it has certainly been somewhat hastily assumed that the latter can be appropriated more or less as a new way of describing a historical ‘ period ’ . |
| 10 | He had never married , but his will shows that he regarded Elsynge , his successor in the clerkship , more or less as a son . |
| 11 | They 're more or less as a , I do n't think there 's a great lot of difference onl I d I , they 're not pushing , they have n't the same , the , I would like to say , I would say they have n't the same interest in their union , they 've not the same interests in the union as they had in the earlier days when there was a union . |
| 12 | As a master of the long line himself , Karajan would probably have endorsed some of Boult 's sentiments ( many of Karajan 's recordings have been put down more or less in a series of single takes ) , but he would also have agreed to an extent with Gould that ‘ good splices ’ can also ‘ build good lines ’ . |
| 13 | Between these two , an unequivocal dividing line made the plateaux of Leon and Burgos a kind of no-mans-land , across which the two forces ranged more or less in a continual dispute until the middle of the tenth century . |
| 14 | " When they were out of a ship they were more or less in a state of intoxication , during which time they were in the society of the very lowest description that could be found . |
| 15 | The other bones were more or less in a confused mass below the thorax . |
| 16 | Garments fluttered over her head and she emerged more or less inside a pleated tennis dress , sailor-collared but daringly short . |
| 17 | These admit various ways of accommodating the sacred to the profane ; i.e. behaving more or less like a rational economic man . |
| 18 | but erm it had sorted itself out after , well more or less after a week or two a lot of the evacuees of course did n't stay very long , they went back home because erm I know mother had a , a little boy from erm Guildford when we lived at Debenham and er he went back after a while , the mother used to come down and visit him from time to time , they were very , came from very poor circumstances and the |