Example sentences of "more [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No more 'n usual . ’ |
| 2 | Well , I 'm glad to see more & more people are realising that Keegan is a complete twat ! |
| 3 | The grand form offered a scale of more or less assimilation to the form hidden in the wood , the surface a scale of textures , on both of which the sculptors played , and they are a source of specific qualities of the genre . |
| 4 | And what 's one more or less ? |
| 5 | Initial training to teach operators how to use the system takes more or less time depending on the software , but typically this ranges from two to five days . |
| 6 | I would say that the child is capable — more or less — of recognizing that other people have mental states different to his own . |
| 7 | It can provide general lighting so you can move around safely and see more or less what you are doing when it 's dark outside ; task lighting when you want more concentrated light in a particular area for a particular job ( including reading ) ; mood lighting to provide different atmospheres in different rooms at different times ; and it can also be used to illuminate the outside of the home . |
| 8 | Painfully — for no work cost him more or perhaps as much as this one — Dostoevsky came to see that The Possessed was n't a sideshow . |
| 9 | And the ‘ they ’ of more or less the whole town will have heard too . |
| 10 | This may take a few iterations to achieve a good balance , but should eventually make the zero crossings correspond to more or less zero field . |
| 11 | ‘ Rivalry within the PDPA is a phenomenon that more or less belongs to the past , ’ he said . |
| 12 | Leo McKern has some fun answering frequent calls of nature and waving a huge condom around , but he 's doing no more or less than passing the time until the phoney climax of the First Act curtain , by which time you 're aware that as a play Boswell is a fraud . |
| 13 | Impressive as it is , however , Dame Edna 's show is no more or less than a star vehicle . |
| 14 | Delays would increase or decrease , according to whether the court was presented with more or less work than it could handle . |
| 15 | An American Congregationalist , for example , saw no possibility of uniting with Rome and every reason for not uniting with Rome — let us join the Churches which teach more or less the truth , not the Churches which do not . |
| 16 | The conception of all of them , in more or less their present form , dates from the social revolution of 1942 to 1944 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The contribution of such schemes to dollar receipts and colonial development alike was more or less zero . |
| 19 | There Engels more or less tells us that the scheme presented is not likely to be changed by new discoveries . |
| 20 | If you 'd like to know more or offer help , contact group member Lynn Hughes , 3 Hill Close , Llangathen , Carmarthen , Dyfed SA32 8QE . |
| 21 | Shipman 's two-volume Story of the Cinema ( Hodder and Stoughton ) is also a very good read — the first volume goes up to Gone With The Wind and the second starts with Citizen Kane and reaches more or less the present day . |
| 22 | It 's possible to trace George Michael back to the colourmotion , the white funk irony that more or less began with ABC and spawned a straight , bleached-out generation of Howard Jones and ( eventually ) the Hues , Wets , Styles and Curiositys ad nauseam . |
| 23 | Although the building is of more or less one period , it is still nonetheless a higgledy-piggledy place to find one 's way about in , as though the builders had not planned it as a whole but acted on whims and perhaps the need to accommodate an expanding family . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The earliest that the whole — more or less — of the industry will be able to take advantage of its single market now looks like being mid-1994 . |
| 26 | AT THE beginning of the 20th century Texan lobbyists could get more or less what they wanted so long as they kept politicians supplied with the three Bs : beefsteak , bourbon and blondes . |
| 27 | Nowadays it can more or less count on getting asked routinely to sanction , shape or run a new form of global riot-control that none of the big powers , not even America , is ready to do alone . |
| 28 | All that was necessary to bring it on in more or less its full force was the sight of the Bible , its cover or open page , or its mere name , or the sight of a church , or the sound of any bell ringing solemnly , from Big Ben down to the bell of the Sunday muffin men . |
| 29 | In addition to the urban congestion , there were two new factors , more or less coinciding in impact , which operated to degrade the traditional sanctity of the grave and hit the poorest people hardest . |
| 30 | Indeed , the threatened coal strike of 1925 , which occurred at more or less the same time , seemed to confirm this impression . |