Example sentences of "more [conj] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a young lad , well as a young lad you were n't allowed to be cos you 're not going to be in there son , and as I was er saying until I , until I left school I was more or less at work between school and bedtime you see , but er the majority of lads used to do a , do a little part-time job in those days |
| 2 | According to Lindsay Neil , manager of the authority 's HIV , Aids and sexual health programme : ‘ Members of these communities are no more or less at risk of HIV infection than others . ’ |
| 3 | You have to stand more or less at attention all the time when you get locked up in there . |
| 4 | able to take a weekend away more or less on impulse ; |
| 5 | Grasses have a tendency to ‘ winter burn ’ more or less in proportion to the amount of herbage standing in a field at the onset of frosty weather . |
| 6 | Rising spending on consumer goods in turn allowed the industries producing them to grow more or less in line with those producing means of production . |
| 7 | We we we know one or two people erm more or less by face , not by name . |
| 8 | No , I assure you of that but , well , for one thing the Elsie I knew made it clear to me that she wished to make a new life for herself , start more or less from scratch . |
| 9 | And I went round town on Saturday and I 'd gone more or less from work as well so I 'd got my big bag with me and ooh my shoulder ! |
| 10 | They provide a very active participation in the many voluntary groups supporting the revolution and contribute much more than previously to development through participation in the labour force . |
| 11 | Now dad Brian needs him more than ever with Forest taking on Norwich at Carrow Road tonight reeling from three successive defeats . |
| 12 | Now , from the mid-seventeenth century onwards , they were more than ever in evidence , as pamphleteers and propagandists ready to justify them grew in numbers . |
| 13 | It was in the reign of ‘ Farmer George ’ that drainage became more than ever in vogue , ‘ improvement ’ being all the rage . |
| 14 | Ours are just figureheads and that shows more than ever in wartime . ’ |
| 15 | More than enough in fact . |
| 16 | Without new taxing powers , local authorities would come to depend more and more on help from the National Exchequer and , since he who pays the piper calls the tune , the result must be even stronger central influence over local decisions . |
| 17 | Over the past few years , the industry has tended to lean more and more on contract labour . |
| 18 | It was perhaps because of this , and because I tried to foster the whole idea of positive thinking , that I began to concentrate more and more on visualization . |
| 19 | In the West we have bigger , warmer homes , more amusement , more communications ; we travel more and further for work and pleasure than every before . |
| 20 | ( 2 ) Rule 35.2 provides that the restrictions in Rule 35.1 apply equally following a partial offer which could result in a holding of 30 per cent or more but not in excess of 50 per cent whether or not the offer has become , or been declared , wholly unconditional ( see 15.1 and 15.2 below ) . |