Example sentences of "more [conj] [adv] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The point is , ’ said Dyson , ‘ I do n't feel one can go on just doing the general odds and sods indefinitely without more or less destroying oneself . |
| 2 | When the village was almost entirely an agricultural community then a case can be made , as we shall see , that the close-knit and overlapping social ties produced a situation in which everyone more or less knew everyone else , but we should be wary of sanctifying the agricultural village with a misplaced nostalgia . |
| 3 | Most of the 16-year-olds say their fathers have more or less told them to ‘ go out and have a good time ’ . |
| 4 | The Treasury were very , very skilled chaps in more or less stopping you doing anything . |
| 5 | When he came along erm was about he was more or less asked what terms he wanted and said that he was no to show no favouritism . |
| 6 | There Engels more or less tells us that the scheme presented is not likely to be changed by new discoveries . |
| 7 | Woken the next morning , yet again , by the early arrival of the twins , there had simply been no opportunity to do more than groggily force herself to rise , dressing herself and the children before completing the packing of all their suitcases . |
| 8 | American history aside , Madame Chardin 's had more than adequately prepared her and Katherine set her sights on university , on Columbia , or Radcliffe or Sarah Laurence . |
| 9 | There can be no doubt that it takes gruellingly hard work to reach the top echelon in aerobatics , and each member of the British Aerobatic Team '92 has more than adequately demonstrated their worth . |
| 10 | When philosophers dismiss women as ‘ not-men ’ they frequently do more than simply lump them together with children or lunatics . |
| 11 | That in turn involves much more than simply studying him as a figure of past history , or breathing in his historical influence . |
| 12 | Mr Patten , however , is engaged in more than simply relieving his own exasperation at Beijing 's procrastination . |
| 13 | There are so many essays and books about the so-called ‘ crisis ’ in English studies that I can do little more than simply explain my own beliefs and show how these underlie the Cox Report 's recommendations for a National Curriculum . |
| 14 | The conclusion we reach , which we share with Wood , is that ‘ the quest for general trends , such as progressive deskilling of the work force , or general conclusions about the impact of new technologies are likely to be both theoretically and practically in vain ’ and that ‘ to incorporate worker resistance , labour and product markets and extra-economic factors involves more than simply extending one 's analysis ; it amounts to a theoretical reconsideration ’ ( Wood 1982 , 18 , 22 ) . |
| 15 | They recoil away as if the intruder were unpleasant to them — something more than simply shading them from sunlight . |
| 16 | We also have it that effects do no more than dependently necessitate their causal circumstances . |
| 17 | I see education as far more than just training you to go out and do a job , and I think the whole learning process , whatever you 're learning , matures you into being capable of taking responsibilities and learning other things , and I think arts subjects do that just as well as science subjects . |
| 18 | I would suggest that it has done rather more than just reveal them . |
| 19 | ‘ I think you 'll do more than just wish me success . |
| 20 | Of course communicating is more than just telling someone something . |
| 21 | A lot more than just fitting it with leather , walnut and air conditioning . |
| 22 | Something — something more than just missing her — had been vaguely unsettling . |
| 23 | Your Bristol & West Mortgage Advisor is the ‘ anchorman ’ ( or woman ) for the whole operation — and does a lot more than just give you a ‘ yes ’ or ‘ no ’ when you ask for a mortgage . |
| 24 | Now we need more than ever to remind ourselves of what Ellen Willis has written : |
| 25 | A letter of 1871 gives a vivid sense of the convictions which impelled her throughout her life : ‘ As I have grown older the terrible sufferings of women of my own class for want of good elementary training have more than ever intensified my earnest desire to lighten ever so little the misery of women brought up ‘ to be married and taken care of ’ and left alone in the world destitute . |
| 26 | A lecturer at the Architectural Exhibition of 1861 noted that ‘ we can not afford to ignore the element of association which now more than ever connects our idea of churches with good Gothic architecture . |
| 27 | This remaining wing was built in about 1640 , a time when local builders were more than ever turning their craft into a conscious art . |
| 28 | And while you can , if you wish , party on into the night , by day you need to do no more than gently toast your body on sandy beaches or explore the pretty coastline . |
| 29 | In the centuries preceding the scientific renaissance in the West , Muslim scholars did far more than merely reproduce their heritage from the Greeks . |
| 30 | They did not enter into lengthy explanations about the sanitary and social implications of such behaviour , because the recruit had more than likely spent his entire life spitting on the floor at home ; the recruit responded to an order backed up with the threat of violence . |