Example sentences of "more [coord] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am more or less a consultant to them . ’ |
| 2 | There 's no rules in our business , but there 's more or less a convention that we do n't kill each other . |
| 3 | Yet the London we inherited from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is more or less a success . |
| 4 | Unfortunately , as we have already said , casein is more or less a mixture of cheese and lime and under prolonged moist conditions casein behaves very like cheese . |
| 5 | A Celtic win was more or less a formality . |
| 6 | No I do n't , but So it 's more or less a threesome if anything at all . |
| 7 | No-one actually said ‘ Piss off ’ to anyone else , or ‘ You 're fired ’ or ‘ You 're hired ’ ; it was more or less a thing where none of us really communicated at all . |
| 8 | … Trouble with going back to the old days , the [ agency ] was more or less a family concern . |
| 9 | That particular trip was more or less a carbon copy of the previous one . |
| 10 | This design was , as was the Karrier model , based on and more or less a facsimile of the ‘ Wolverton Coupling ’ . |
| 11 | And he actually treated me like a , more or less a son , the site agent , and he made sure er I gradually developed my muscles . |
| 12 | I think that the rest of the situation should be more or less a straight across thing , and I 'm gon na see if we can get Paul |
| 13 | In examining colloquial English it is often more or less a matter of arbitrary choice how one transcribes such a word . |
| 14 | After that first one in The Crown and Sceptre kitchen , Chris took the chair more or less every week for the next three years . |
| 15 | Of the outside world , I had more or less no knowledge . |
| 16 | I would say to you that the history of North Yorkshire County is that the house house builders have built , more or less the building rate of planning policy , whatever that has been , and that is a matter of fact , and if and if and if we are in a situation where the market is being fettered , as is the policy , and it 's not a policy which we are seeking to go away from specifically , and it is inevitable that the house builders will build to whatever the policy building rate is , and comparisons of one building rate with another are simply telling you what 's happened in the past , not what needs to happen in the future er in terms of meeting the housing requirement , and quite clearly in any area where you are introducing a new settlement , if indeed that 's the conclusion we come to , er late later on , erm and I hope we do , but if we are introducing a new settlement you are bound to skew the building rates , and the more and more you reduce the area in which you consider what the building rate effect is the more and more that it actually gets skewed , er and erm you know , quite frankly , when the developers built a new estate at the end of my particular street the building rate went up alarmingly in my area , er and er you know , we can go on forever like that , I just think it 's very misleading to just deal with the judgement of building rates . |
| 17 | It appears that more or less the company would do it . |
| 18 | And my hair was gingery , more or less the colour of the map you know , or a little darker than the colour of the map . |
| 19 | The re the essence of was they made more or less the customers ' requirements . |
| 20 | There was quite a few men and made more or less the customers ' requirements and when I was in charge , there was sixteen and they , about in two or three parties , er you know and they 'd make different kinds of locks what was ordered and not particularly er mortice or rim er what the customer required . |
| 21 | As we have seen , some of the earlier and more enthusiastic apologists for pluralism , such as Dahl and Plamenatz , did suggest both that the spread of pressure and interest groups covered more or less the whole of society and also that such groups competed with each other on a roughly equal basis . |
| 22 | You know sometimes the way forward is backward , there are no short cuts with god , if he 's leading along a certain path and were disobedient , there 's no way we can opt out of it and join the trail further along , he does n't allow it , its back to where we left it , that 's were we 've got ta get back to , we ca n't skip an experience , we ca n't miss any thing out , we 've got to go back to where we start , where we were when we left the trail and Naomi has to do just that to go back to Bethlehem , that 's the way forward for her , and you see because we all , we always find this if we are really children of god , then we can never ever be satisfied away from the will of god , there 's nothing else that meets our need , its god will or nothing , you know , when we know frustration in our lives , when we know sort of the , these annoyances and , and , and , and er sense of frustration there , its not because god is leaving us that way its invariably cos we have actually gone out of gods will because he 's will is not frustrated , its satisfying , can I just , it will only really be headings this morning , just leave us with three brief headings in this little incident that we 'll read or we , we wo n't read the whole passage but its , er in the remainder of the , or more or less the whole of the remainder of the first chapter tha that the cost was involved and then the choices that were made and then the commitment , the cost that was involved Naomi had to pay something , you see before she could return to Naomi she had to con , before Naomi sorry could return er to , to Bethlehem , she had to acknowledge she 'd done wrong , she had failed , she had sinned , she had to acknowledge she had made a mistake now in fairness to Naomi she did it and she excepted her responsibility , she did n't try and shift the blame on |
| 23 | As long as power oscillated between two evenly-balanced parties , who shared more or less the whole of the vote , the election of a minority government did n't matter too much . |
| 24 | Ellen was adamantly opposed to the first two and a noisy supporter of the last two , while my position was more or less the opposite . |
| 25 | Liquid Crystals These are more or less the opposite to glass . |
| 26 | This was more or less the case throughout the West Indies , although attitudes in Barbados were undoubtedly narrower than elsewhere . |
| 27 | Erm , yes that is more or less the case . |
| 28 | We , when we were dredging , we were dredging now from Cliff Quay and er used to get all this er grey mud and erm and the chalk and when we used to dredge , we got down to chalk er , more or less the depth we wanted to go and anybody dredging down there today if they dredge the chalk at Cliff Quay that 's the depth of water you want and erm then we dredged erm just below erm and then we went to Freston Freston we were dredging peat . |
| 29 | In northern France this had been traditionally organized by the institution known as the villa , a country estate of variable size , often more or less the equivalent of a village , where all the land was the lord 's ; some part of it he let out to tenants , some part of it he farmed directly ; but even his own domain was in large measure tilled by the peasant tenants , who held their land in return for services in money , services in kind , and above all labour-services , for a defined amount of work for the lord . |
| 30 | it was just more or less They they certainly would n't have food or anything like that I think it was just more or less the supplier or That would be |