Example sentences of "[be] more [conj] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Company liquidation figures have been more than double the level of a year before , with about half the companies dying within the first five years . |
| 2 | When partners are more or less the same age , this slower response will be balanced by the older man 's more delayed reactions . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They are situated on practically adjoining hills and are more or less the same distance away from Gubbio . |
| 5 | Selvedges are more or less the same on all items , but the fringes are secured in a number of distinctive ways . |
| 6 | 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 ] ’ . |
| 7 | Liquid Crystals These are more or less the opposite to glass . |
| 8 | I mean they are more or less the same at the end as they were at the beginning . |
| 9 | A policeman stopped her in Chawton , where the alcohol in her breath was found to be more than twice the legal limit . |
| 10 | Police stopped Kelly , of Chelmsford , and a breath test showed him to be more than twice the legal alcohol limit . |
| 11 | He was later found to be more than twice the legal drink-drive limit . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But if we look at distant galaxies , there seems to be more or less the same number of them . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | It is relatively brief , as can be seen by comparing it with a more recent competitor for the same market , H. W. Janson 's A History of Art , which is more than twice the length and has more illustrations ( 928 in 1962 ) . |
| 17 | The French can supply perfect walnuts , but charge dear ; at £5000 a tonne the price is more than twice the price of California bits , and the reason is that the process is totally unmechanised . |
| 18 | But Birtwistle 's work is more than twice the length of Mason 's , and he more than justifies his larger span . |
| 19 | Of the seats where Labour is second , there are 31 where it is behind by 5 per cent or less and a further 11 where the Liberal Democrat vote is more than twice the Tory majority and a differential split in Labour 's favour would produce a Labour gain . |
| 20 | This is more than twice the size of Trevor Pinnock 's English Concert ( Archiv ) , for example , and substantially larger than Sigiswald Kuijken 's Petite Bande ( Deutsche Harmonia Mundi ) . |
| 21 | Their rate of natural increase is more than twice the national average , and their numbers increased by 214 per cent between 1971 and 1981 . |
| 22 | The total cost is more than twice the amount we spend on wine . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Giving in , or submissive behaviour , is more or less the opposite side of the coin to aggressive behaviour . |
| 25 | ‘ Hippy ’ on the flip is more or less the same song with the addition of a fuzzbox . |
| 26 | In Paul Corrigan 's study Doing Nothing he suggests that ‘ trouble in school ’ is more or less the same elsewhere . |
| 27 | Although the spelling may be very different in the different words , the sound is more or less the same . |
| 28 | and in fact it is more or less the same but you check if some of them are missing . |
| 29 | No , the Principle is fine — provided you use it — as I said — over a region where gravity is more or less the same . ’ |
| 30 | This is more or less the same as saying that theme normally precedes rheme . |