Example sentences of "more [conj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Always wear clothes to reveal your shape when having these taken , and adopt more or less the same poses . |
| 32 | It was evidently widely felt that its representatives were capable of more or less any form of major misdemeanour . |
| 33 | Visits to hotels or theatres , going on holiday or to restaurants are all difficult things to do on one 's own , and if they are undertaken , people may have to pay more or end up in a corner , marginalized and away from the main clientèle . |
| 34 | It is a typical Karajan project because in one respect it is enormously sophisticated — the technology is elaborate , expensive , and bang up to date — and in another it is very simple , inasmuch as its ultimate aim is nothing more or less than the lucid presentation of the music . |
| 35 | With a feeling of having been unexpectedly let out of school , I drove over the hills on the road to Reading and coasted along the unfenced part of the Quillersedge Estate until I thought I 'd come more or less to where Gareth had dropped the paint : parked off the road there and searched more closely for the place on foot . |
| 36 | He let Slovakia go more or less its own way under the puppet regime of Father Tiso . |
| 37 | According to Lindsay Neil , manager of the authority 's HIV , Aids and sexual health programme : ‘ Members of these communities are no more or less at risk of HIV infection than others . ’ |
| 38 | The Tories have more or less run out of good ideas which inspired them in the early Thatcher years , and are left only with a few bad ones : the creation of new , ever more incompetent ‘ private ’ monopolies ; the vindictive pursuit of aged war criminals ; the idiotic struggle to knock a penny off income tax , which will benefit nobody , when so much more could be achieved with a little imagination — by abolishing all discriminatory rates , abolishing capital transfer tax and other taxes on savings , allowing domestic wages ( as all other forms of employment are allowed ) against personal taxation … |
| 39 | Now he appears as a policeman , but in more or less the same character , as the star of his own series . |
| 40 | Although they describe harvest feasts in an opposed manner , Leapor and Duck are engaged in more or less the same argument . |
| 41 | That the owners are not described may imply that they have withdrawn from the close relations with tenants , servants , and labourers that is called for from lords of the manor ; they have grown remote in more or less the way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 . |
| 42 | By then , rigor mortis was progressing , but Noakes had got her more or less straightened out . |
| 43 | I 'm not sure whether 2nd births are viewed with more or less apprehension . |
| 44 | Mr Patten turned lexicographer in an article in the Guardian to define the concept in the following way : ‘ The active citizen is someone making more than a solely economic contribution to his or her community ; nothing more or less . |
| 45 | He learnt that he could make love and come both in haste and with impressive slowness , for five minutes or for three hours , without asking either for more or for less time from his partner but fitting in with their timing . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | If you want more or have any doubts about your suitability for racers , then seek advice from a specialist retailer . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | In most common diseases of western society , we know more or less what has gone wrong , even if we do not know why it has gone wrong . |
| 50 | Many related compounds were made in the same laboratories and were investigated in more or less detail according to the promise they showed . |
| 51 | Grasses have a tendency to ‘ winter burn ’ more or less in proportion to the amount of herbage standing in a field at the onset of frosty weather . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | No , I assure you of that but , well , for one thing the Elsie I knew made it clear to me that she wished to make a new life for herself , start more or less from scratch . |
| 54 | ( 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 . |
| 55 | One can not discriminate more or less . |
| 56 | One can not , he says , discriminate more or less . |
| 57 | The Treasury were very , very skilled chaps in more or less stopping you doing anything . |
| 58 | Arsenal became the subject of more ill-considered criticism than any other club , a fate which has more or less persisted . |
| 59 | In other words , the Board of Trade could more or less control the Service , co-operating with other agencies when and where it thought necessary , although those LEAs which had or might have in the future statutory powers for dealing with juveniles were permitted to submit schemes for the exercise of these powers , provided they could obtain the permission of both Boards . |
| 60 | Like the HMIs , I have more or less avoided this question so far , mainly by talking about ‘ curriculum managers ’ . |