Example sentences of "more [conj] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are , of course , incapable of deliberate volition and move more or less at random ( although there is thought to be some evidence of a directional trend ) . |
| 2 | They regarded him as something more or less from outer space , and it was a long time before he and his family felt themselves to be part of the community . |
| 3 | Considering the overall sound quality and taking into account how much is in such a compact package the retail price of a touch under £1500 might seem a tad high , but it compares more than favourably with reel-to-reel machines aimed at the same market . |
| 4 | When children hear both terms in the same instruction or in the same condition , they do not treat more and less as synonymous . |
| 5 | Now , conflicts between instinctual drives and the controlling agency occur more and more as social and political conflicts , and less and less as purely psychological ones . |
| 6 | Women are having to rely more and more on civil ’ remedies ’ for protection . |
| 7 | As agriculture became more intensive , with larger amounts of the same crop grown on the same land year after year , farmers came to rely more and more on chemical pesticides . |
| 8 | And so although his early contributors had come from the European tradition which preceded the Great War , by the early Thirties he had come to rely more and more upon British contributors . |