Example sentences of "[be] more [coord] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well they 're more or less no different to what we 're walking down here now . |
| 2 | I am more or less a consultant to them . ’ |
| 3 | When partners are more or less the same age , this slower response will be balanced by the older man 's more delayed reactions . |
| 4 | Before I first visited I supposed wrongly that , since the latitudes are more or less the same , the coastline would be vaguely similar to that of Maine or New Brunswick . |
| 5 | They are situated on practically adjoining hills and are more or less the same distance away from Gubbio . |
| 6 | Selvedges are more or less the same on all items , but the fringes are secured in a number of distinctive ways . |
| 7 | Having said that , it is beginning to gel as a discipline ; Mr D said that staff rarely discussed the aims of the course now , there being a ‘ general assumption that the ground rules are more or less the same [ as when we started ] ’ . |
| 8 | Liquid Crystals These are more or less the opposite to glass . |
| 9 | I mean they are more or less the same at the end as they were at the beginning . |
| 10 | Even if you are more or less an appropriate weight to begin with , you can benefit from exercise to tone the muscles . |
| 11 | I fell into one of those drooly , head-lolling dozes that seem to be more and more a feature of my advancing years . |
| 12 | These will increase in efficiency , and with strong belief in hard work and more education , and with the organisation and money provided by Japan , and helped by cheaper labour , will be more and more a threat to all Western economies . |
| 13 | Not long , I think , now that internal revolution , disruption and secession , external interference , aggression and absorption are likely to be more and more the fate of these often unstable and highly artificial British ex-dominions . |
| 14 | I think that the rest of the situation should be more or less a straight across thing , and I 'm gon na see if we can get Paul |
| 15 | But if we look at distant galaxies , there seems to be more or less the same number of them . |
| 16 | We 've already reviewed the SoundBlaster Pro — indeed most of us at Practical PC have one in our machines — and know it to be more or less the industry standard for PC sound . |
| 17 | ‘ I realised that if I was going to switch guitars , I wanted something that had some kind of improvement , rather than just being more or less the same . |
| 18 | Yet the London we inherited from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is more or less a success . |
| 19 | That means it was for use in climates and countries so benign that the natives require no shelter at all , and where a tent is more or less a decorative affectation . |
| 20 | Unfortunately , as we have already said , casein is more or less a mixture of cheese and lime and under prolonged moist conditions casein behaves very like cheese . |
| 21 | All the models of passive rifting discussed so far assume that rifting is more or less a symmetric process ; that is , we would expect the opposing passive margins formed through continental break-up to have a similar structure and morphology because they have experienced a similar tectonic history . |
| 22 | The move is more or less an insurance policy that Apple will at least have a place as a client in the enterprise . |
| 23 | The move is more or less an insurance policy that Apple will at least have a place as a client in the enterprise . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Giving in , or submissive behaviour , is more or less the opposite side of the coin to aggressive behaviour . |
| 26 | ‘ Hippy ’ on the flip is more or less the same song with the addition of a fuzzbox . |
| 27 | In Paul Corrigan 's study Doing Nothing he suggests that ‘ trouble in school ’ is more or less the same elsewhere . |
| 28 | Although the spelling may be very different in the different words , the sound is more or less the same . |
| 29 | and in fact it is more or less the same but you check if some of them are missing . |
| 30 | No , the Principle is fine — provided you use it — as I said — over a region where gravity is more or less the same . ’ |