Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] more [coord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For most people nowadays , any mention of computers conjours up vague images of more or less two things : either Sonic the Hedgehog , or a shapeless , grey , John-Majorish boredom . |
| 2 | It will be argued in this chapter that their prideful belief in the capacity to influence , so vividly expressed and so evidently vindicated in Indirect Rule , led the British on to fatal experiment in more and more attenuated forms of imperial control . |
| 3 | Since the end of the last war more and more of our food has been subjected to factory processing , with the concomitant addition of more and more chemical additives to counteract the deterioration in taste , texture , colour and palatability which the processing of food brings about . |
| 4 | This is a major issue for an information provider , such as a library , because it draws attention to the obligation to supply support for users of a new and different kind , and to develop ways to reduce the dependence of historians of the future upon the support of more and more highly skilled staff . |
| 5 | These findings offered important support for theoretical proposals about children 's acquisition of the meanings of more and less as well as of other adjective pairs ( e.g. , big/small , tall/short , wide/narrow ) , in that they appeared to show that children first learned the meaning of the unmarked term for a dimension ( e.g. , big , tall ) , and interpreted the marked ( negative ) member ( small , short ) of the pair as if it had the same meaning as the unmarked ( positive ) member ( see H. Clark , 1970 ; Clark , 1973a ) . |
| 6 | Once these conditions were altered , children clearly contrasted the meanings of more and less even when their lexical knowledge was still imperfect . |
| 7 | In the past two and half years it has risen four times in real terms to pay for the publication of more and more glossy pamphlets such as the parents charter — party political propaganda produced at the taxpayers ' expense . |
| 8 | This study looked at the responses of more and less arithmetically-able pupils . |
| 9 | They reflected the emergence of aspects due to the prolonged looking demanded by the method and revealed that ‘ growing up ’ to a painting , mentioned earlier , in which the discovery of more and more forms part of the process of coming to know a work . |
| 10 | Data proliferates in the NHS with more and more being collected , but without the same effort being put into asking why it is being collected and what it is to be used for . |
| 11 | Other phrases with more or less the same meaning are nihil obstat ( ‘ nothing hinders ’ ) and cum licentia ( ‘ with licence ’ or ‘ with permission ’ ) . |
| 12 | The Treasury were very , very skilled chaps in more or less stopping you doing anything . |
| 13 | Case conferences should , as a matter of routine practice , make a much clearer distinction between more and less ‘ objective ’ evidence than they do at present . |
| 14 | A reader from a common law background is often puzzled by this , because it looks like the single concept of ‘ service ’ with which he is familiar ; he has to keep in mind the civil law distinction between more and less solemn modes . |
| 15 | It would also be a simple matter of alter the ‘ daily ’ timing to a period of more or less than one day . |
| 16 | And I think as time 's gone on our party had just realized wit the stresses and strains of more and more right wing pressure to destroy workers rights and drive wages down . |
| 17 | Mastery of that code by distant descendants could therefore become more ‘ mindless ’ in the early stages ( even those involving significant structure ) as brains were shaped by natural selection for more and more rapid language acquisition . |
| 18 | In this way a process of evolution was started that led to the development of more and more complicated , self-reproducing organisms . |
| 19 | Much as technology seems to gather pace with the development of more and more sophisticated equipment so do the methods employed by the many users . |
| 20 | The development of the relationship depended on shared secrets , on entrusting the other person with more and more important parts of yourself . |
| 21 | Leeds switched tactics slightly and brought Kelly in more and more so that West ham were being skinned on both wings . |
| 22 | Today in order to meet the burgeoning demand for more and more creamy pints of Guinness , St. James 's Gate , through the recent investment of IR£200 million , has become one of the world 's most technologically advanced breweries , having the flexibility to brew virtually anything to the highest international standards . |
| 23 | The second possibility , that there is an infinite sequence of more and more refined theories , is in agreement with all our experience so far . |
| 24 | Thus it does seem that the sequence of more and more refined theories should have some limit as we go to higher and higher energies , so that there should be some ultimate theory of the universe . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 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 | Further evidence in support of this comes from studies that introduced a third term , in the form of a nonsense word , in contrast to more and less . |
| 28 | Another stirred one of two glasses of beans with his finger for tiv ( he had added and subtracted appropriately in response to more and less ) . |
| 29 | From sociology there are attempts to adopt and adapt Mannheim 's perspective and attempts to more or less ‘ begin again ’ . |
| 30 | 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 . |