Example sentences of "more [coord] [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They should devote themselves wholly to the problem of making life in South Africa , regarded as more or less a foreign country , bearable for self-respecting British men and women . |
| 2 | In 1986 , Christopher Lewinton was appointed as chief executive with more or less a free hand to do whatever he felt necessary . |
| 3 | Although Joe does n't use much sweep picking , la Frank Gambale , or rapid-fire althernate picking , la Yngwie , he covers more or less every other technique in the book ! |
| 4 | The status of the foreign minister as merely a high-ranking bureaucrat meant that the diplomats whom he directed , and in particular the heads of the more important Russian missions abroad , often looked on him as more or less an equal and hardly as a superior at all . |
| 5 | Shipman 's two-volume Story of the Cinema ( Hodder and Stoughton ) is also a very good read — the first volume goes up to Gone With The Wind and the second starts with Citizen Kane and reaches more or less the present day . |
| 6 | And the ‘ they ’ of more or less the whole town will have heard too . |
| 7 | well this people I mean with , with , that I mean that really is more or less the same amount as the other companies have said for er more or less the whole lot , so why the wardrobes are so cheap and yet the , the bed surrounding is so expensive , we do n't know |
| 8 | There , the iso-reflectance lines follow more or less the stratigraphic contours ( cf. |
| 9 | Total orders for the second quarter , to April 30 , were 28.5% up at $5,370m ; orders for computer products rose 32.9% to $4,120m , making it clear that the company , where computers accounted for less than half of the business only a few years back , is continuing progressively to become more and more a pure computer company . |
| 10 | Total orders for the second quarter , to April 30 , were 28.5% up at $5,370m ; orders for computer products rose 32.9% to $4,120m , making it clear that the company , where computers accounted for less than half of the business only a few years back , is continuing progressively to become more and more a pure computer company . |
| 11 | Now the centre-piece of the ‘ new ’ , lush , grass , airfield , and serving as the ‘ Officers Mess ’ is a surviving building from the field 's brief ‘ other ’ life , a totally restored relic of a war that grows more and more a second-hand experience as every day ticks by . |
| 12 | Durkheim 's second ‘ law ’ was : ‘ Deprivations of liberty , and of liberty alone , varying in time according to the seriousness of the crime , tend to become more and more the normal means of social control ’ ( 1973 : 294 ) . |
| 13 | As trading becomes less and less directly connected with physical trading floors , or even a particular trading system , the rulebook becomes more and more the key determinant of the exchange 's identity and objectives . |
| 14 | They were n't the kind of people who could get themselves together and organized , it was a more and more the bottom end of the scale and people who were actually erm you know , really powerless in many ways . |