Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] or [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no really well-defined pattern , but the constellation is not hard to identify , because it lies more or less between Altair and Fomalhaut ; the line of three stars of which Altair is the central member points to it . |
| 2 | A far-southern constellation , not hard to find because it is so compact ; it lies more or less between Achernar and Canopus . |
| 3 | Just as conjectures will be considered bold or otherwise by reference to the relevant background knowledge , so predictions will be judged novel if they involve some phenomenon that does not figure in , or is perhaps explicitly ruled out by , the background knowledge of the time . |
| 4 | You have to stand more or less at attention all the time when you get locked up in there . |
| 5 | Membership is open to any company that designs , manufactures , sells or supports generally-available products conforming to layer 3 or below of the Open Systems Interconnection model , such as bridges , routers , hubs or adaptor boards . |
| 6 | This observation corresponds more or less to Jacobsson 's list ( pp. 60-2 ) of the ten types of context where need can be used as a modal : Type 1 Need I be present ? |
| 7 | For those old people who want to continue living outside institutional life , it means in many cases living alone or away from their children and grandchildren , or perhaps giving up their own homes to live in ‘ sheltered accommodation ’ overseen by a warden and social workers . |
| 8 | You have to be fine-tuned and the notion of writing drunk or even with a hangover is not on , because you need every sense and more . |
| 9 | Rising spending on consumer goods in turn allowed the industries producing them to grow more or less in line with those producing means of production . |
| 10 | However , with Sun and other compatible players moving into the Sparc SMP market , which Solbourne has had more or less to itself for some time , the company is being forced to look at other ways of differentiating its products . |
| 11 | For example , the china which Queen Adelaide brought with her from Britain still exists more or less in its entirety in one Portuguese household in Funchal . |
| 12 | Medved muddies the waters by treating cinema , television and pop more or less as a single entity . |
| 13 | From 12 May , Sabine Wachters will be exhibiting ten or so of Parmiggiani 's most typical sculptures . |
| 14 | Anything along those lines is welcome , however modest , but let us understand clearly that those payments are triggered only when the temperature reaches zero or below for seven consecutive days . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm used to getting a goal every two-and-a-half games , so going four or more without one makes you take a good look at yourself , ’ he says . |
| 16 | Until 25 April , Odermatt-Cazeau is exhibiting thirty or so of her finest metamorphic sculptures ; she combines elements from the human , animal and vegetable realms to create magma-like forms which are both fragile and monumental . |
| 17 | The sequence of landing was planned to put the raiders ashore in a fighting formation , and although all went to plan at Stamsund , indiscipline among boats ' crews would on other occasions cause difficulties for commandos landed late or ahead of their supporting Troops . |
| 18 | Do people participate more or less in villages , towns or cities ? |
| 19 | That means flying two or more after the same rabbit . |
| 20 | But er course we n n never got any money because we er m it more or less disbanded the Notts miners ' union that did , it er it took everything away was That was when we were er er s the Spencer union was formed more or less by the management . |
| 21 | One who saw both camps preparing for the talks says : ‘ It was all arranged so that Diana could stay more or less on her terms . |
| 22 | The important tactic with this type of start is to decide whether to start early or late in the gates ‘ opening ’ . |
| 23 | The great majority of consumers get their fuel on credit , in that they pay monthly or quarterly in arrears , though of course the cost of this credit is not charged separately to them as interest . |
| 24 | But I 'd dealt more or less with the small firms even to the the extent of collecting dues . |
| 25 | There are also several economic unions which operate more or less in a bloc-like manner . |
| 26 | I shoved twenty or so into the pouch . |
| 27 | It is just possible that , because these spiritual things are produced by the mind and are therefore peculiar to individuals , varying little or much from person to person , they represent the real and absolute fact of individuality . |
| 28 | So far , tropical moist forests provide little more than 10% of the total wood used as solid wood and pulp , but as temperate forests become depleted or increasingly under pressure of the ‘ environmental ’ lobby to be managed for functions other than production , attention will inevitably be focused on the tropical resources . |
| 29 | Erm , I think it fair to say that if you 'd asked more or less to the next meeting and probably sub-committee would be quite , quite acceptable and I would thank you for drawing it to our to our attention . |
| 30 | The first is the greater propensity of people of all ages to live alone or away from their families ; many of these are in cohabiting unions , and therefore reflect the failure of statistical presentation to keep pace with changing social trends ( Kiernan , 1986a ) . |