Example sentences of "more [conj] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nolan and Sam Yaeger often bed the same girl , more or less to spite each other , it seems . |
| 2 | The contrast between the view that moral distinctions are detected by sense and feeling and the view that they are revealed as necessary truth to reason was a central theme in the moral philosophy of David Hume ( 1711–76 ) , whose philosophy is recognized as empiricism brought more or less to perfection . |
| 3 | So far , China is more or less on course . |
| 4 | Clara had just been born then , and now , more or less on schedule , Hana was in labour again . |
| 5 | Thanks to the volume of work carried out on the Enron project , UK turnover last year was ahead of budget , with net profit being more or less on budget . |
| 6 | As the mum of a 12-year-old son , we are both learning as we go along how to use the Amstrad 5086 , my son concentrating more or less on games and school related programs , myself for the odd game , but mainly word-processing ( I have just written my first book ) , genealogy and cheating on addressing the Christmas cards . |
| 7 | Stubbly was more or less on cue . |
| 8 | I replied somewhat heatedly that I was more or less on duty , visiting men in the hospital . |
| 9 | He was n't the prettiest sight you would see on a golf course but , since he always turned up at the practice ground the following morning more or less on time and more or less clean-shaven , it was obvious that he patronised his own circuit of cheap guesthouses . |
| 10 | Of course when he was living with Beatrice — and he painted her at least fourteen times — he could resume his sittings more or less at will . |
| 11 | Er in the case of Berlin , the er situation there was er that Russia er of course the Soviet Union could intervene in Berlin more or less at will , given that it was a small island in East Germany and was always a vulnerable , always , always in a position of being a hostage . |
| 12 | Er in the case of Berlin , the er situation there was er that Russia er of course the Soviet Union could intervene in Berlin more or less at will , given that it was a small island in East Germany and was always a vulnerable , always , always in a position of being a hostage . |
| 13 | From the optical properties of this mineral we know that the lens was able to interpret light coming from a direction more or less at right-angles to the lens surface . |
| 14 | What makes young people more or less at risk ? |
| 15 | It was more or less at eye level , because I was on the floor at the time , and I crawled towards it with a muffled sensation of triumph . |
| 16 | At first , Jackson had seemed more or less at ease with her . |
| 17 | She felt completely comfortable in her presence , and the two of them talked to each other more or less as equals . |
| 18 | At the same time it was doubtless the case that by-employments , which were probably the rule rather than the exception , were decisive in bringing the level of wealth in districts unfavourable to husbandry more or less into line with that of the more eligible farming regions . |
| 19 | A totally unremarkable constellation south of Capricornus , more or less between Capricornus and Grus . |
| 20 | Thuban lies more or less between Mizar and Beta Ursæ Minoris ( Kocab ) , but is only of magnitude 3.6 . |
| 21 | Unlike his predecessors , he seems to have got his nobles more or less under control , and had pacified the Highlands ; but , like those predecessors , he found that England was rarely in a mood to be pacified . |
| 22 | Nor could she then justify employing a cleaner and the odd-job man who kept all the local gardens more or less under control . |
| 23 | " These problems are now more or less under control , with the mature plants helping to blanket out the weeds , " explains Barbara . |
| 24 | And the funny thing is : I thought I was more or less over Irene . |
| 25 | It was mid-afternoon and Karajan led the Berlin orchestra , more or less without break , through Ein Heldenleben . |
| 26 | Although generally short- and long-term interest rates move up and down more or less in unison , this is not always the case . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 ’ . |
| 30 | A cat and the occasional use of warfarin keep the rats and mice more or less in check . |