Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The division of labour that achieves this may be more or less complex and more or less individuated . |
| 2 | Essentially it mean that er the work is is more or less complete and therefore we are pricing it on the basis of the actual out turn of costs . |
| 3 | To have an infinite number of pebbles you 'd have to have a rubber sheet that was more or less flat and just went on and on for ever . |
| 4 | No , the idea is , I 'll transcribe the tape more or less verbatim and then work in the other material . ’ |
| 5 | And gentility is a belief that life is always more or less orderly , people always more or less polite , their emotions and habits more or less decent and more or less controllable ; that God , in short , is more or less good , |
| 6 | Little reliable information is available at the time of writing and much of the " data " which does exist is based on guesswork — more or less inspired and sometimes merely sensational . |
| 7 | It might be more or less efficient or more or less fair to assign liability to one party or the other , and this is why it is important that the legislature or the courts , whichever first have occasion to set the rule , make the right substantive decision . |
| 8 | But while there has been little analysis of the social relations of earlier , equally formal though smaller , or less formal and indeed informal institutions and associations , there ought to be some theoretical hesitation . |
| 9 | to control the keeping and use of explosive or highly flammable or otherwise dangerous substances , and generally to prevent the unlawful acquisition , possession and use of such substances . |
| 10 | ‘ controlling the keeping and use of explosive or highly flammable or otherwise dangerous substances , … ’ ; |
| 11 | She had seldom felt so old or so tired or so wretched . |
| 12 | But it 's all for the rest of my life , an important fact for me , and to say , OK , I do n't need it any more , it has to be a very strong and bad change inside Kirov , I will be so upset or so unoptimistic or so helpless that I will feel I can not do anything more . |
| 13 | As she got closer to them Julia thought that she had never seen a man with such brilliant dark eyes or so saturnine and yet handsome a face . |
| 14 | Eliot had hinted in his primitive ritual paper that grand structures of belief might be founded on something false or grotesquely crude or even meaningless . |
| 15 | The typical rationalist will believe that theories that meet the demands of the universal criterion are true or approximately true or probably true . |
| 16 | erm the ladies who are a bit obese and get all the sympathy you get all so skin or just skinny and suddenly you try to put on some weight , you just ca n't . |
| 17 | In these representations ‘ stamped with immortality ’ , she seemed to Ford Madox Brown [ q.v. ] ‘ thinner & more deathlike & more beautiful & more ragged than ever ’ . |
| 18 | In these representations ‘ stamped with immortality ’ , she seemed to Ford Madox Brown [ q.v. ] ‘ thinner & more deathlike & more beautiful & more ragged than ever ’ . |
| 19 | In these representations ‘ stamped with immortality ’ , she seemed to Ford Madox Brown [ q.v. ] ‘ thinner & more deathlike & more beautiful & more ragged than ever ’ . |
| 20 | Ophiopristis may be defined as follows : the jaw longer than broad with one or two apical papillae flanked on each side by 4 or more rounded or slightly pointed oral papillae which form a continuous series with 2–4 slightly larger tentacle scales associated with the second oral tentacle pore , these scales may arise on the adoral shields , in some species there may also be papillae on the inner edge of the first ventral arm plate , the adoral shields long and narrow separating the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate ; disk covered by small scales each bearing a spinelet ; radial shields from the first lateral arm plate ; disk covered by small scales each bearing a spinelet ; radial shields covered and inconspicuous ; tentacle pores of the arm not open but armed with one or two leaf-like or scale-like tentacle scales . |
| 21 | He had thus seldom been cooler or more controlled than now , as he told McGann that yes indeed he had been travelling , and no , it was none of the Society 's business where or about what pursuit . |
| 22 | Sir Richard and Lady Isabella now know that perhaps we are not as stupid or as feckless as sometimes we may appear . |
| 23 | There 's nothing on Lovesexy as supersaturated as ‘ Adore ’ , as out of kilter as ‘ Ballad of Dorothy Parker ’ or as vacant and cretinizingly compulsive as ‘ Hot Thing ’ . |
| 24 | Target Date can be a specific date or as general as just the month or year in which you hope that goal will be achieved . |
| 25 | A family with the disk ranging from a sack-like bag covered with skin or thin scales to a more rigid structure covered with large plates , usually armed with spinelets , granules , or simple rods , the density of covering varying ; the characters of the oral frame falling into broad categories ; either the jaws longer than broad with many papillae or as broad as long usually with fewer papillae , rarely more than 6–7 ; the arms usually noded but sometimes only slightly so ; arm spines usually erect , often long and rugose ; the tentacle pores either large and open with small tentacle scales or none at all or small with a variety of tentacle scales . |
| 26 | Unfortunately , there are many essential oils sold in the aromatherapy market which are not as pure or as natural as generally believed . |
| 27 | Mishearing can cause misunderstandings which may be embarrassing or even funny but certainly not reassuring . |
| 28 | They can also be forgetful or very tired and perhaps bad tempered . |
| 29 | The term has consistently been interpreted as meaning ‘ whatever here and now is very costly or very unusual or very painful or very difficult or very dangerous , or if the good effects that can be expected from its use are not proportionate to the difficulty and inconvenience that are entailed . ’ |
| 30 | that you can try and get them to say well is that sort of moderately vivid or very vivid or very very vivid or absolutely compelling just like real life or erm I , I do n't know what , what , what you 'd be able to do erm it 's obviously got ta be something that you can present orally |