Example sentences of "more [coord] [adv] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The DUC found the group it was looking for in the Oxford-based Political Ecology Research Group : ‘ They more or less said to us , ‘ We 'll not take on your issue if we decide that in the upshot our report will be favourable to the mining companies . |
| 2 | At the age of seven , he was sent away to boarding-school and this event more or less coincided with his father 's remarriage . |
| 3 | Two events , which more or less coincided with Geikie 's retiral , had a profound effect on the future of the Survey . |
| 4 | By chance the introduction of better rigging more or less coincided with the gold discoveries in California . |
| 5 | They had more or less drifted into a relationship , meeting at lectures , having the occasional meal together . |
| 6 | ‘ We come to what we more or less knew in the first place . |
| 7 | You more or less stood to attention . . |
| 8 | Oh it was a horse-drawn , horse-drawn , there were no cars on the road in those days , I think I was one of the earliest to get knocked down by a car actually in Walsall , I was er , when we lived in Street he came down Street and immediately opposite there was a Co-op shop opposite Birds the fruitiers , and mother sent me down to the Co-op and the old trams used to run along the Pleck to Darlaston , Wednesbury and that way on and I ran across the road , past the Co-op the tram and a car must have just bumped into me and he knocked me down , a terrible commotion amongst the folks and could n't have hurt them much , because I got up and ran off , ran off home , so they were restricted in you see and the speed they could go in the car , but the car , the tram car was stopped at the bottom of Street , almost opposite the Co-op and er I must have just run across the road run into the car and more or less bounced off it I should think . |
| 9 | As there was a rough , though by no means exact , correlation of social power with wealth , this meant that the élites of European society tended to be more and more permeated by members of the financial , industrial and professional bourgeoisie which had emerged increasingly as the dominant class in progressive societies since the seventeenth century . |
| 10 | Women themselves are more and more socialized into the male interpretation of these female blood mysteries . |