Example sentences of "more [conj] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's possible to trace George Michael back to the colourmotion , the white funk irony that more or less began with ABC and spawned a straight , bleached-out generation of Howard Jones and ( eventually ) the Hues , Wets , Styles and Curiositys ad nauseam . |
| 2 | ‘ Rivalry within the PDPA is a phenomenon that more or less belongs to the past , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Interestingly , the date of the earliest document signed by Hocazade — mid-Shawwal 877 — more or less coincides with that of a recording that on 23 Shawwal 877/23 March 1473 Efdalzade had been appointed to the Sahn in place of Ali Kuscu who , Uzuncarsili says , had been transferred to the muderrislik of the Ayasofya medrese , one of the posts which Molla Husrev had held in conjunction with the kadilik of Istanbul . |
| 4 | That is the area which has been used for the last five or six years as the basis of the And that outer boundary more or less coincides with the outer boundary erm of the York greenbelt . |
| 5 | Nor did he see another consequence , as his nephew Mauss confessed , shortly before going mad : ‘ how large modern societies which have more or less emerged from the Middle Ages in other respects , could be hypnotized as aborigines are by their dances and set in motion like a child 's carousel . |
| 6 | The search must be no more than reasonably required for the purposes of discovering such evidence and there must be reasonable grounds for believing that such evidence will be found . |
| 7 | International migration has played a part since young adults and families are more than proportionately represented in these flows , but the prime factor is the variation in the size of age groups resulting from previous fluctuations in births . |
| 8 | Eisner and Nowicki suggest that the occasional missed meal is more than adequately compensated for by the preservation of the web . |
| 9 | Many of the skills already possessed by chartered accountants are more than adequately demonstrated in their training experience to date ; corporate finance is one such area , as is taxation . |
| 10 | Jazz and blues fans are more than adequately catered for with shows by some of the best musicians from both home and abroad . |
| 11 | However , he successfully adopted his style in more than adequately coping with the West Indian fast bowling of the 1960's . |
| 12 | It 's been talking to OSF about just these kinds of things , and would ( of course ) , like to do more than simply participate in such an effort if it could , though the smoke signals from OSF read simply ‘ message received , ’ for the present . |
| 13 | No matter — Motian 's small groups have been ‘ led ’ by Frisell 's electric guitar since the 1980s and in practice , Evans 's complex Walkin' up , or the equally complex interplay of instruments and tempi in Five do more than simply survive with either guitar or saxophone ( or both ) leading . |
| 14 | We can do so much more than simply acting as if we were all Victorians . |
| 15 | But it should be kept in mind that the home visit , for reasons of either vocational guidance or after-care , was intended to do more than simply attend to the school-leaver , who was urged to ‘ put your shoulder to the wheel ’ in order ‘ to reduce to a minimum the number of inefficient citizens ’ . |
| 16 | They monopolise access to public positions , they hold competition in check , they allow their expenses to be more than comfortably met from tax revenue and whenever things Set tough they form an excessively large coalition , not against any parliamentary minority but instead against the majority of non-organised voters … |
| 17 | Sticking to a principle is more than adroitly shifting from one position to another . |
| 18 | And I am not overlooking the fact that the Provincials are more than well represented with Ronnie Oliver and Ian McClure of Portrush , who meet Edwin Downey and Gary Rutledge of St Brendan 's . |
| 19 | To be involved in Earth Mysteries is much more than just reading in an armchair or researching in the library : it means going out and becoming part of the landscape . |
| 20 | It 's more than just thinking about him , is n't it . |
| 21 | When you move into your Higgs & Hill home at Port Solent you 'll be doing more than just living on the waterfront . |
| 22 | It is much more than just looking at the ultimate consequences . |
| 23 | General exploration means more than just looking for what we want . |
| 24 | Access to the king , however , implied more than just access to the fount of patronage ; it also implied the right to give advice on the business of the kingdom . |
| 25 | Evidence is mounting that weeds do more than just compete with crops for light and nutrients . |
| 26 | The latest Government proposals will do a lot more than just tinker with the existing liquor licensing laws in England and Wales , although the Scots will be pleased to hear that their licensing system is being used as the model for some of these proposed changes . |
| 27 | TURNING A HUMBLE PC INTO A NETWORKED BEASTIE INVOLVES MORE THAN JUST BUNGING IN AN ETHERNET CARD . |
| 28 | Saving the elephant will require more than just working in Africa . |
| 29 | ( Aye , I thought , and I wager she does more than just work in the kitchen , but who am I to judge the poor man 's morals ? |
| 30 | As a result , the brunt of investment pressures will have to be borne by an ever-decreasing stock of pubs ; and what good pubs we have left will be more than ever exposed to the cold winds of change . |