Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] the [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , the academics ( or rather the best of them ) have caught up with the real world . |
| 2 | I mean they are more or less the same at the end as they were at the beginning . |
| 3 | I watch intently for a half-hour , seeing how often the chub move out of the darkness and into the light , and that the time spent there is more or less the same on each occasion . |
| 4 | Selvedges are more or less the same on all items , but the fringes are secured in a number of distinctive ways . |
| 5 | Of the situation regarding museums , Mr Sekera explained , ‘ Since 1989 state support has been nominally more or less the same after allowing for inflation . |
| 6 | Until the beginning of the industrial revolution , there was a rough balance which kept the earth 's temperature more or less the same from one year to the next . |
| 7 | An earthquake in Mexico will be reported more or less the same by each , but what about the Labour Party Conference or a murder down on a Devon farm ? |
| 8 | This signalling system is apparently more or less the same in Brazilian Portuguese . |
| 9 | The position in this respect remained more or less the same in the eighteenth century . |
| 10 | ‘ This means that the number of women acquiring HIV per year can not be counted in the thousands , or even the hundreds of thousands , ’ he said . |
| 11 | Their homes are often sumptuously hung , not with the finest of eurocentric defined Fine Art , or even the craftiest of Crafts Council defined craft , but with Javanese batik , Indian embroideries , West African Adire , and selected ex-colonial produce . |
| 12 | Their main target will be not so much that gap at the lineout , or even the debatable inside arm requirement , assuming either is a target at all , but the turnover law . |
| 13 | Despite outward appearances and her protected upbringing , it seemed after all as if Anne were the more worldly-wise of the two — or even the three of them . |
| 14 | Even then , Terry and I used to have arguments when one of us discovered that Gary had knowledge of things that only the two of us knew . |
| 15 | The second reason for pressing the educational question is that only the largest of our national museums can afford to mount the kinds of ‘ spectacular ’ exhibitions cited two paragraphs back . |
| 16 | It happens that only the last of these verb phrases is standard English . |
| 17 | Three levels of assessment are envisaged , and most people think that only the last of these — a complex assessment — will be new . |
| 18 | There is no doubt that , as the Memoir asserts , the owner of Litton Mill [ Needham ] , " although perhaps the worse of his tribe , did not stand alone " . |
| 19 | Shame on the Ordnance Survey for giving it the name of Ingleborough Hill on some of their maps : it is every inch a mountain and , although not the highest in England as was once thought and is overtopped by many others , one of the grandest . |
| 20 | ‘ You have told me , at least , ’ he said , musing , ‘ that there were more people knew Aldhelm would be coming down that path than just the few of us , as it began . |
| 21 | All rows ( except possibly the last for any entry ) will contain 252 characters of text . |
| 22 | : Fb The kind of erm cinema that will have being two-screens , it 's going to allow the sort of variety that probably the Regal in the past was n't able to give to them , because we can as a policy have a constantly erm a constant turnover of different films . |
| 23 | The bearer pulled him into a passage so thin that even the narrowest of stalls could not wedge itself in . |
| 24 | In spite of the fact that even the best of his songs can seem surprisingly flat on the page , his vocal performance compels a belief in the aptness of the words . |
| 25 | One can bludgeon them with facts , anecdotes and innuendoes about the ways in which land is being misused , show that even the best of intentions are misguided , and that most people who have to do with land and what it provides hold views which are wrong . |
| 26 | This means that even the best of gyros will always be a little too late to prevent any unwanted movement . |
| 27 | Not only may some modern novelists display at least some of their methods , but it would appear that even the hardest of natural scientists fail to spell out all of the procedures which they follow in their research , indeed that they are sometimes unable to do so ( Mulkay 1979 ) . |
| 28 | You can see my point — that even the simplest of overcalls can steer opponents into strange misjudgements . |
| 29 | ( The growing scarcity of Persian village rugs is increasing their price , however , and it is quite possible that even the shoddiest of these will soon fall into the " medium category " ) . |
| 30 | No wonder Milton was aware that the ways of God needed more justifying than even the greatest of English epics could contrive to do ; and Paradise Lost , as Empson believed , is a poem more than occasionally conscious of the ultimate injustice of the dogma of atonement , and it thrives poetically on its contradictions . |