Example sentences of "more [conj] [adv] a [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 | He was more than just a hypochondriac . |
| 15 | Is it because all the people who have lived here have left little bits of themselves behind , so that it has become more than just a shelter against the wind and the rain ? |
| 16 | And Liberal leader Paddy Ashdown 's popularity actually increased after the revelation that he 'd dipped more than just a toe into the typing pool . |
| 17 | And this was more than just a professorship . |
| 18 | It was my own experiences with herbal treatments , due to being ill over the past few years , that convinced me that there was more than just a placebo effect at work . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , it has taken more than just a pinch of the new S-class 's style with its first real attempt at a grille , cut down into the front bumper . |
| 20 | maybe even more than just a day . |
| 21 | Giving good Press : Fashanu has always been more than just a footballer |
| 22 | But nervousness and vacillation over direct state intervention was more than just a problem of administration . |
| 23 | Although it was hardly conclusive proof they were the same kegs as those discovered by the vagrant , all the signs pointed to it being more than just a coincidence . |
| 24 | But it was more than just a pub crawl . |
| 25 | Is he more than just a basher of indifferent bowling , of which there is currently plenty ? |
| 26 | Luke 's no fool ; he could see that so far as I was concerned Elise was more than just a client . |
| 27 | So test-tube fusion was more than just a media event with dollars on the line for the University of Utah , there were many private agendas riding along with it . |
| 28 | In de Gaulle 's mind , the empire was more than just a source of potential recruits . |
| 29 | By this stage , Des was more than just a mascot . |
| 30 | There is , however , more than just a need ; for there is fundamental necessity for vision at all levels of human affairs ; all groups of people , even small teams as well as nations , must have a vision , or everything subsides into confusion and what is worse , lets power fall into the hands of practical , and unseeing men who press only their own interests , leading to strife and despair . |