Example sentences of "more [conj] [adv] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although generally short- and long-term interest rates move up and down more or less in unison , this is not always the case . |
| 2 | There was no central heating , only a collection of electric and oil and gas heaters , imported by tenants or discovered more or less in working order in the Handwork Room where all such things were stowed . |
| 3 | It is in the nature of sea cliffs to remain largely hidden from view until you are more or less in contact with them , but for much of this side of Stennis this is not the case , for the gully descends to a non-tidal terrace descending beneath the cliff . |
| 4 | According to Booth 8.4 per cent of the people of London lived in the worst condition of being ‘ at all times more or less in want ’ , ‘ ill-nourished and poorly clad ’ . |
| 5 | A cat and the occasional use of warfarin keep the rats and mice more or less in check . |
| 6 | The ability to mark discrimination points is lost since ambiguity of word boundaries in connected speech , together with multiple choices of phoneme labels , means that a variable number of paths through the tree will be pursued more or less in parallel at any particular point in processing . |
| 7 | The party structure followed was based on the Irish civil war antagonism of 1922–3 , with the pro-Treaty party more or less in power until the anti-Treaty party entered politics in 1930 . |
| 8 | The enabling technologies for such an information and communications centre are already more or less in place . |
| 9 | She was quite mature in her answers , and as you will see from Document A , sir , the Visitor got the impression — we have to rely on their experience in this sort of judgement — ; that she was more or less in command of the situation and had gained poise and experience from it and that a second traumatic removal from what in fact was a secure home for her would at this stage do more harm than good , especially as the relationship between the girl and her father was not good . |
| 10 | Well it 's more or less in hand , yeah . |
| 11 | Having found the key to changes in terms of the need to manage the politics of reproduction more effectively , she tends ( in theory , at least , since her own empirical analysis is rather more flexible ) to follow the perceived logic through , so that the conclusion is that local government is being reorganized more or less in line with changes in the organization of major capitalist enterprises . |
| 12 | In the last decade , as we have seen , conventional retail credit has kept more or less in line with changes in the volume of consumer spending ; there may even have been a slight decline . |
| 13 | You may be maintaining your profits more or less in line with inflation , and hence giving a spurious impression of growth . |
| 14 | M46 and M47 are close together , more or less in line with Beta Canis Majoris and Sirius ; they are not spectacular , but are easy to locate . |
| 15 | This is going to be more or less in line with what erm you told me on the phone anyway is n't it ? |
| 16 | This conclusion was suggested by the finding that evidence on the elasticity of demand for public services at state and local levels was not consistent with the prediction that a budget-maximizing agency will always increase the budget more than proportionately in response to a fall in cost . |
| 17 | The two control sample carers ( Mrs Mitchell 's daughter and Mrs Wilkins ' nephew ) were both still quite definite about wanting to see their relative in institutional care ; Mrs Mitchell 's daughter said that she was becoming more and more anxious about her mother being at risk at home ; and Mrs Wilkins ' nephew saying that she was more than ever in need of care , and the strain upon him of having to cope with her difficult personality was making him wish even more acutely for institutional care . |
| 18 | Dunwoody 's day started badly with a fall on Gambling Royal and , setting out on Remittance Man for the Mumm Melling Chase , he must have had the fences more than usually in mind . |
| 19 | She stared ahead of her to where Wind Street met High Street but she did n't see the portico of the inn she was passing or the ornate facades of the tall houses ; she was acknowledging to herself that she was falling more and more in love with Craig Grenfell . |
| 20 | He became more and more in love with the beauty of his face , more and more interested in the ugliness of his soul . |
| 21 | Yet with Rosemary still refusing to go out with Travis and Travis falling more and more in love with her the whole time , there was no way he could stay away . |
| 22 | And fell more and more in love with you , be it lunching with you , or dining with you , watching your innocent pleasure as you in turn watched the astronomical clock strike the hour . |
| 23 | Balance is better achieved by a mixture — often sold as ‘ blood , bone and fish ’ — although in recent years the fish content has been considerably reduced as it is used more and more in animal and pet foodstuffs . |
| 24 | These are being found more and more in water supplies but are unlikely to cause process difficulties unless anionic material combines with cation-active agents being used in finishing . |
| 25 | Cells in different parts of the embryo can be thought of as developing along quite different pathways , diverging more and more in character . |
| 26 | The point of using your imagination and dreaming is that , once you have an outline of the dream , you can then begin to think about it more and more in detail until you can bring it back into your own reality . |
| 27 | ‘ Architects are more and more in need of reassurance where product liability is concerned , and a new BS 402 is a major step forward in this respect , ’ he says . |
| 28 | The fact that credit scoring is so relatively new to this country , but is likely to be used more and more in future , suggests that the time is particularly ripe for agreeing guidelines on scoring techniques . |
| 29 | Never an assiduous Bible reader , though while mother was alive she used to read a few verses for her sake , she now began to turn to it more and more in search of enlightenment but her head swam when she tried to read . |
| 30 | It is interesting and perhaps unusual that it developed first in politics but now is used more and more in commerce and industry . |