Example sentences of "more [conj] [adv] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From then until his death some thirty years later , except for an interval of six years between 1772 and 1778 , Sulivan was more or less continuously a director . |
| 2 | If you do this several times in the course of a clutch being laid , you can more or less double the number of chicks . |
| 3 | If we have the same amount of cold weather this winter as we had last winter , we will more or less double the coverage of the benefit as a result of the changes that I announced earlier this year . |
| 4 | Another departure was that of Ted Trimmer , half-brother of Deborah Kerr , one more ex-Bristol journalist who had been with TWW more or less since the start . |
| 5 | There is obviously a great buzz in live performance , and live work during this period was more or less just a lengthy summer tour with Andy Gibb in America . |
| 6 | He scanned the print , seeing that it echoed more or less exactly the story Swansborough had just told him , then turned his attention to the photograph alongside — three people , obviously dressed for leisure . |
| 7 | The poem is defined , technically , as the ‘ experience of the right kind of reader has when he peruses the verses ’ ( Richards 1926 : 10 ) ) , and the right kind of reader is the one who manages to recreate in himself more or less completely the collection of impulses which the poet expressed in the poem or , more exactly , the ‘ relevant experience of the poet when contemplating the completed composition ’ ( Richards 1967 : 178 ) . |
| 8 | Well it was one big bedroom but there was more or less like a loft . |
| 9 | Yeah well I I remember it was more a it was more or less like a feeling of physical revulsion er I felt erm on occasions like that , partly because of the person but partly because it was a bit of an imposition on on my on my intimacy as it were y'know erm so er |
| 10 | Ah well more or less much the same as it is today . |
| 11 | But the idea of a continuum of language-games employing the same word , whose contexts recall more or less distantly the analogous human original , seems more adequately to capture the spirit of what we need to say in such circumstances . |
| 12 | The narrative maximizes Stepan 's vulnerability , perching him on a platform amid the malcontents and troublemakers and the much larger number of those humble , obscure people who are enduring more or less passively the chaos of the fête . |
| 13 | I think that 's more or less still the same . |
| 14 | The expanding European states often brought the energy of incipient nationalism to their forward march , but more or less all the states they encountered outside Europe were organized on the principle of allegiance or loyalty to the ruler . |
| 15 | Er so I mean they were in use more or less all the time but er it was it was n't , it was n't too bad , better than a lot of hospitals had . |
| 16 | More or less all the countries in the world which are heavily dependent on cereal imports on a per capita basis are poor countries , or rich countries with relatively little arable land ( like Japan ) . |
| 17 | Erm yeah I th I mean I , I 've got more or less all the points that have been raised but I , I just felt that it went it er it was almost as though you 'd made your mind up before you went in that you were gon na tell him what compressed funds was |
| 18 | after er sort of I 'd more or less half a second and I thought oh he 's come back again |
| 19 | It is , however , the work of the remaining Russians that intrigues even more and most notably the Surrealist Home and the Sky : the Life of Plants , which is a kind of film-set by the Moscow-born Igor Orlov and the Form and Continuity by Nikolai Ovtchinnikov , who welcomes us to the show and is illustrated on the front page . |
| 20 | More and more frequently the assaulting infantry discovered that French machine-gun nests had been left untouched by the artillery . |
| 21 | With these ‘ Heidelberg masters ’ , not unworthy disciples of Senfl , the secular Tenorlied became more and more nearly a miniature motet . |