Example sentences of "more [coord] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " 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 | Stubbly was more or less on cue . |
| 7 | I replied somewhat heatedly that I was more or less on duty , visiting men in the hospital . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 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 | What makes young people more or less at risk ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | At first , Jackson had seemed more or less at ease with her . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Nor could she then justify employing a cleaner and the odd-job man who kept all the local gardens more or less under control . |
| 18 | " These problems are now more or less under control , with the mature plants helping to blanket out the weeds , " explains Barbara . |
| 19 | It was mid-afternoon and Karajan led the Berlin orchestra , more or less without break , through Ein Heldenleben . |
| 20 | Although generally short- and long-term interest rates move up and down more or less in unison , this is not always the case . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 ’ . |
| 24 | A cat and the occasional use of warfarin keep the rats and mice more or less in check . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The enabling technologies for such an information and communications centre are already more or less in place . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Well it 's more or less in hand , yeah . |
| 30 | 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 . |