Example sentences of "[verb] more [coord] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They all wanted to know more or less the same thing : ‘ What is this tunnel thing about ? ’ |
| 2 | Independent of this physical cause there exists always one more or less contrary evil to the cure of maladies in any Hospital whatever which results from the great number of sick assembled in one place , the bodies of which occasion emanations which alters more or less the wholesomeness of the air , but this cause may in some manner be done away with by the great cleanliness of the Stables and fumigations that might be performed from time to time … |
| 3 | The trade could do more but essentially the sport needs money put in to the get the necessary kit , accommodation and instruction . |
| 4 | When we consider the attainment of higher political office , the trend is for the ‘ typical ’ MP to prevail more and more the higher one goes . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This new life reveals more and more the gifts of God , and less and less the human efforts we vainly try to make . |
| 7 | Always wear clothes to reveal your shape when having these taken , and adopt more or less the same poses . |
| 8 | " The language emphasizes more and more the need for a new international economic order " , she said . |
| 9 | Ask a dozen American curators about Earl A. Powell III , the new Director of the National Gallery , Washington , and you get more or less the same general response : ‘ If you were having lunch with Rusty ( his nickname that everyone uses ) and did n't know what he did for a living , you would think he was either an Assistant Secretary of the Navy , a General Manager of General Motors , or a football coach . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Advertising may well continue in much the same form as in the past and , therefore , careers in this field will remain more or less the same . |
| 12 | Companies will have to be more flexible in their demands , to accommodate more and more the individuals ' different hopes , wishes and ambitions . |
| 13 | In an age when we feel more and more the need to be in harmony with our environment , it makes sense to surround yourself with the infinite variety and beauty of today 's clay tiles , so sophisticated in their simplicity . |
| 14 | The Release control performs more or less the reverse of the Attack rotary , adjusting the time for the signal gain to fall back to the level set by the Range control . |
| 15 | I had to keep more or less the leverage more or less the same because you could n't differ them and er I er had that job to er do for and er it was the H M S Gothic and they was going to South Africa and er when er they was on , in the middle of South Africa on the coast one of the royalty died . |
| 16 | Most of us apply more or less the same old lotions , creams and make-up all year round through force of habit . |
| 17 | Instead you should use the command SUBST A : B : / B : A : / which does more or less the same job . |
| 18 | Er , the truth about genetics was discovered more or less the same time Darwin put forward his theory in the early eighteen sixties by who was er erm carried out erm experiments in sweetpeas in the monastery garden and apparently sent a copy of his paper to Darwin . |
| 19 | As trading becomes less and less directly connected with physical trading floors , or even a particular trading system , the rulebook becomes more and more the key determinant of the exchange 's identity and objectives . |
| 20 | There , the iso-reflectance lines follow more or less the stratigraphic contours ( cf. |
| 21 | The series of Horta heads all have more or less the same basic subdivision into several clearly defined areas . |
| 22 | Durkheim 's second ‘ law ’ was : ‘ Deprivations of liberty , and of liberty alone , varying in time according to the seriousness of the crime , tend to become more and more the normal means of social control ’ ( 1973 : 294 ) . |