Example sentences of "more [conj] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could be said that in Western society religion has performed a considerable disservice by providing a more or less uniform system of social values — the Christian ethic . |
| 2 | The two central summary reports compiled by the SD , based on observations of reactions in all parts of the Reich immediately following the attack , provide a more or less uniform picture of deep shock , dismay , anger , and outrage about the attempt on the Führer 's life , and immense relief at the outcome . |
| 3 | I had picked my pall-bearers carefully , so that , for obvious reasons , they would be of more or less uniform height , but one of them was late , and the fourth corner had to be hoisted onto the shoulder of Nigel 's nephew , who was six-foot-four-plus-a-bit . |
| 4 | Here not only do the sediments preserve a continuous and more or less uniform record over the disputed boundary , but the faunas ( most notably the monograptids ) went on happily evolving , oblivious of the great things that were going on elsewhere . |
| 5 | In the past it has generally been assumed either that spending patterns will change incrementally from year to year or be based on some more or less rational overview of budgets . |
| 6 | One interpretation given to this phrase in the 1980s was that a work of art should openly contest a given fact of political or social life in a more or less explicit way . |
| 7 | The shops were still open — it was more or less late night every night this time of year — I remember that . |
| 8 | Nevertheless there was a chance , perhaps , that a French government might have been so far-sighted or faint-hearted that it would have ordered a cease-fire , entered into serious negotiations , abandoned its insistence on membership of the French Union , accepted , at least by instalments , an independent , more or less communist state in a presumably close relationship with either the USSR or the Chinese Communist Party , or both , and been prepared to rely on Vietminh goodwill , such as it might be , for the preservation of whatever position they chose to accord France . |
| 9 | erm I think two people have had tremendous problems and again must have been going up and down St Aldate 's , because they were very busy officials , was Edward Hyde , who later became Earl of Clarendon and wrote his story of the war , again of course from the Royalist point of view , and his great friend , Lord Falkland , who was Secretary of State for the King , and became so upset and worried by the rash policies of the Queen 's party and the general atmosphere of intrigue , and by the war itself , that he does seem to have more or less committed suicide at the battle of Newbury , by riding ahead of his troops into the enemy . |
| 10 | Independent of this physical cause there exists always one more or less contrary evil to the cure of maladies in any Hospital whatever which results from the great number of sick assembled in one place , the bodies of which occasion emanations which alters more or less the wholesomeness of the air , but this cause may in some manner be done away with by the great cleanliness of the Stables and fumigations that might be performed from time to time … |
| 11 | Guilt is culpable responsibility — we are guilty of some specific offence , or we may be seen by others or see them as so ; in this sense we carry the more or less factual responsibility for damage or potential damage to some other person(s) or society as a whole . |
| 12 | A little later we find him interested in the creation story and reading the now more or less unread epic on the divine week of creation by the French poet Du Bartas . |
| 13 | Tribal communities — who have ownership rights over 97 per cent of the country 's land — are becoming more reluctant to sign agreements with the logging companies , the RIC says , while developments such as the " walkabout " sawmill are allowing them to operate their own small-scale logging operations in a more or less sustainable manner . |
| 14 | The bees somehow convert the soup of rotten meat they 've collected into a more or less stable paste for storage in the nest cells . |
| 15 | Each is a more or less stable filter mechanism . |
| 16 | The main and more or less stable plate that dominates the area is known , hardly surprisingly , as the Pacific Plate ; surrounding it are a number of equally large , or smaller plates such as the Australian , the Nazca , the North American and the Cocos Plate . |
| 17 | In this respect if in no other the concept of the family as a more or less stable institution is becoming an impossible one . |
| 18 | In the WFS surveys questions about marriage of the women interviewed referred to " marital unions , " i.e. , " More or less stable cohabitation with a man whether based on a marriage which is sanctified by religion , law , or custom , or is simply a " marriage " of convenience . " |
| 19 | It really is rather unusual for a more or less stable democracy to undertake changes of this scope in peacetime . |
| 20 | Howard protested about overcrowding in conditions of a more or less stable prison population . |
| 21 | Kicks , punches and elbow strikes can all be directed at the ball , and because it has a certain amount of give in it , practitioners can get a more or less accurate feeling of how a punch or kick will feel against a human body . |
| 22 | He had given a more or less lucid report of everything that happened after the moon rose . |
| 23 | Whether two or more mental events count as of the same type in our sense , to repeat , is a matter of whether there is a discriminable difference in content , any such difference , whether or not the events are included under the same more or less general description . |
| 24 | The escaping gases rise upwards , forming a turbulent , dynamic wall , while the denser part , containing most of the solid material , hugs the ground and rolls rapidly over it , travelling at great speed , since each particle of the solid material is in a more or less floating condition , cushioned by escaping gas like a hovercraft . |
| 25 | Somehow Shadwell contrives to create a more or less coherent narrative out of all this , and Lloyd 's manic production , which combines Restoration costumes with kitsch trimmings from the 1950s , moves at a pace which leaves the audience breathless . |
| 26 | In his notebooks of 1867 we find an extraordinary profusion of plans for a book : one or two are lists of wide-ranging topics arranged to form a more or less coherent whole ; most are variations on the theme of tragedy . |
| 27 | The interests of the other classes find more or less coherent expression in movements of opposition and protest . |
| 28 | It recounts a complex story in a more or less coherent fashion . |
| 29 | More or less empirical screening is very unreliable for showing drugs active against cancers , but more re fined methods have evolved . |
| 30 | In small States it was often possible for the ruler to express very effectively by his own actions this paternalist view and to have some more or less personal contact with an appreciable fraction of his subjects . |