Example sentences of "more [conj] [adv] [adj] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Differences in ethnic identity , race , religion , social stratification , age and sex may be associated with more or less familiar or comprehensible values , attitudes and expectations . |
| 2 | Little reliable information is available at the time of writing and much of the " data " which does exist is based on guesswork — more or less inspired and sometimes merely sensational . |
| 3 | Most natural minerals are brittle because they are more or less homogeneous but it happens that a few have cleavage planes of about the right strength . |
| 4 | Essentially it mean that er the work is is more or less complete and therefore we are pricing it on the basis of the actual out turn of costs . |
| 5 | A syllabus may be more or less fixed or negotiable ; apparently rigid courses can in fact be quite flexible in detail . |
| 6 | But in the great majority of the parishes it was a complete transformation , from the immemorial landscape of the open fields , with their complex pattern of narrow strips , their winding green balks or cart-roads , their headlands and grassy footpaths , into the modern chequer-board pattern of small , squarish fields , enclosed by hedgerows of hawthorn , with new roads running more or less straight and wide across the parish in all directions . |
| 7 | First , the tasks we carry out are not only more or less complex but they also become more complex as they separate out into discrete categories or types of complexity . |
| 8 | The division of labour that achieves this may be more or less complex and more or less individuated . |
| 9 | And gentility is a belief that life is always more or less orderly , people always more or less polite , their emotions and habits more or less decent and more or less controllable ; that God , in short , is more or less good , |
| 10 | No , the idea is , I 'll transcribe the tape more or less verbatim and then work in the other material . ’ |
| 11 | It might be more or less efficient or more or less fair to assign liability to one party or the other , and this is why it is important that the legislature or the courts , whichever first have occasion to set the rule , make the right substantive decision . |
| 12 | They have informed me that the seraglio contains beautiful apartments , more or less spacious and splendid according to the rank and income of the females . |
| 13 | These variations are however more or less superficial and the main differences between timbers lie in their density . |
| 14 | The foregoing account confirms the idea implicit in the theoretical scheme which I sketched earlier : namely , that nationalism is an immensely powerful force , first , because it is sustained by a deep-rooted sense of belonging to a territorial and cultural community , and secondly , because this sense of belonging has become firmly attached to the nation state in a process of political development which is now several centuries old , and has taken on the character of a more or less sacrosanct and unalterable principle of political organization . |
| 15 | This can only be true for those speakers who are more or less monostylistic and " basilectal " : in other words , those whose repertoire is confined to a variety of Creole which is almost maximally different from Standard English . |
| 16 | It was , indeed , the dominant concept of the age , though there was a rather fundamental division between those who thought that progress would be more or less continuous and linear , and those ( like Marx ) who knew that it must and would be discontinuous and contradictory . |
| 17 | The rubber sheet could be more or less flat and of a certain definite size — it has a boundary or edge to it . |
| 18 | To have an infinite number of pebbles you 'd have to have a rubber sheet that was more or less flat and just went on and on for ever . |
| 19 | Because the way that I erm , I 've been working on this procedure and in fact I sense this too , and I have most of what was currently there for research project , project related sub-contracting , in other words sub-contracting with B P or if necessary , which I felt that more or less covered and what it was n't covering was when a Marie type situation on software , where I was going to put a different section , which is where the report , when it 's on research project related company facts , then I pay for the software . |
| 20 | There are many instances to be found in decided cases where the right of a nation to legislate for waters more or less landlocked or land embraced , although beyond the three-mile limit , has been admitted . |
| 21 | It is the conjunction of travel time , costs and opening hours ( availability ) of services that combine to render rural residents more or less isolated or inaccessible , and this question of poor spatial and temporal synchronization of services and public transport ( in particular ) will be developed in chapter 8 . |
| 22 | And if you remember I said that , because of its concern for security , the state creates a capacity for violence in the world of states , its , its environment and since this is er erm a characteristic of all states , however large or small the resources , they all create this capacity , they all have a defence policy er there is a consequent competition and this competition , far from resolving the problem of security , in fact exacerbates it , it makes it worse , and so states find themselves competing at different levels er competing particularly in the creation of military capabilities and the consequence of this is a more or less sustained and permanent arms race which frequently er produces armed struggles and war . |
| 23 | Managing a curriculum has at least three interlocking components : ( a ) a formal statement ( more or less detailed or precise ) ; ( b ) those who deliver ( teachers ) , and who enjoy more or less autonomy , responsibility , public confidence , etc ; ( c ) a hierarchy which monitors and supervises delivery , carries varying degrees of ‘ clout ’ vis-à-vis teachers , and operates at varying degrees of distance from the classroom . |
| 24 | Lison-Tolosana , for example , has shown that suffering imposed by elders on their juniors leads the juniors to take a more or less hostile and reactive view of history ( Lison-Tolosana , 1966 ) . |
| 25 | The LNA launched a dual offensive , attacking both the medical profession and the double-standard on which the acts were premised : ‘ the false idea that there is one code of morality for men and another for women … which has more or less coloured and shaped the whole of our social life . ’ |
| 26 | And though we often generalise , calling one person more or less intelligent or fearful , we know that our appreciation of these qualities is rooted in our knowledge of the context in which the intelligent action or fearful response was made , and also in the history of its development . |
| 27 | The self is always a more or less precarious and conflictual construction out of , and compromise between , conflicting and not always conscious desires and experiences , which are born out of the ambivalences and contradictions in human experience and relationships with others . |
| 28 | The approach which they employed was by using hard systems which are capable of specification , analysis and manipulation in a more or less rigorous and quantitative manner ; soft systems which are not tractable by mathematical methods ; by exploring examples ; and by combining interdisciplinary approaches by reviewing the dilemmas which confront man 's intervention in natural systems . |
| 29 | Isabelle Jan surmised that the lack of ‘ the essential emotional outlet of erotic passion ’ in children 's literature led to ‘ more or less disguised and distorted substitutes for adult love ’ but goes on to point out that passionate feeling can be , and is , expressed strongly in family relationships . |
| 30 | If towing is permitted with only a wing-tip man , it is vital that the pilots all recognise that this is only safe if the ground is more or less level and the wind is very light . |