Example sentences of "[modal v] be more [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you send your contribution it should be more or less ready for publication . |
| 2 | In other words , it is not enough that a cell should be more or less active ; the change must be sufficiently unusual statistically for it to function as a code . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | Laws used to specify offences such as loitering with intent or malicious wounding , so that it was up to the prosecutor to prove the evil character of an act that might be more or less culpable . |
| 5 | Sex might be more or less important to a person in later life , but the level would be higher or lower according to the general level of importance throughout adult years . |
| 6 | Some estimates suggest that CFCs direct contribution to the greenhouse effect might be more or less offset by their indirect effect of countering it by depleting ozone . |
| 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 | No I do n't need the rail , I do n't the rail money in er Cos I presume if you pay the seven quid you 'll be more or less committed then to paying the I 'll I 'll get the rail money a bit later than . |
| 9 | So we 'll get that sorted out and been talking about it I think the best bet is if we can get a few lessons in during the holidays so that when he goes back to school he 'll be more or less up to date . |
| 10 | We can only assure you that , as the years go by , you 'll be more and more delighted you took it up . |
| 11 | I think they 've built They 've opened London offices , many of them , if those offices grow so they acquire the sort of breadth and depth of experience in the relevant areas that the big firms have got and at the moment er they may not have , then of course they 'll be more and more competitive . |
| 12 | Clearly this figure could be more or less . |
| 13 | The rubber sheet could be more or less flat and of a certain definite size — it has a boundary or edge to it . |
| 14 | By other forms of reproduction an image may be more or less degraded , so that nothing can be learnt from them . |
| 15 | The spicules may be only loosely associated within the sponge tissues , or may be more or less fused to form rigid skeletons . |
| 16 | The other distinctions are relative rather than absolute ; for example , the subject matter may be more or less abstract , the audience may be very well known or less well known . |
| 17 | The heap may or may not heat up due to aerobic bacterial action , and the end product may be more or less valuable accordingly . |
| 18 | Such skills or knowledge may be more or less specialised , comprehensible , or penetrable to an outsider . |
| 19 | Bottoms may be more or less sensuous to those whose old preoccupations centred on anal functions . |
| 20 | Some form of analysis ( which may be more or less explicit ) is necessarily a part of the interpretation of texts , of understanding how a poet or novelist achieves his or her effects , and consequently must figure in the production of accurate writing . |
| 21 | Alternatively , the relocation package may be more or less generous . |
| 22 | He might perhaps attribute the incompleteness of his account to the fact that he is a ‘ bourgeois ’ subject , who can only glimpse an alternative view ofthe individual ; but this defence is still a problem , for even a glimpse suggests that the ISAs of the capitalist totality may be more or less effective , and this variation will have to be explained . |
| 23 | So it seems that this is a further reason for Althusser to allow that the process of constitution may be more or less successful . |
| 24 | A hegemonal class may be more or less ingenious at furthering its political interest while maintaining its position in the power bloc ; the working class may make better or worse use of a revolutionary situation . |
| 25 | Although there may be more or less rigorous ways of doing this it can not be denied that the central activity is the same . |
| 26 | Answers given by the forty women in the sample to questions about work tasks suggest that certain characteristics of housework may be more or less uniformly experienced as dissatisfying while others are potentially rewarding . |
| 27 | Ads work in several different ways : these may be more or less intellectual or emotional : they may also be more or less conscious . |
| 28 | A syllabus may be more or less fixed or negotiable ; apparently rigid courses can in fact be quite flexible in detail . |
| 29 | The division of labour that achieves this may be more or less complex and more or less individuated . |
| 30 | Performance and reward imperatives may be more or less related . |