Example sentences of "more or [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first street in Funchal was more or less the present Rua Santa Maria , and the flat area of beach was where the Largo do Corpo Santo is now . |
| 2 | have a job getting out of them and er you know more or less the higher chair 's |
| 3 | This means that the heads stay in more or less the right position when switching between applications , thus speeding things up a little . |
| 4 | It was more or less the first thing we checked . ’ |
| 5 | Bumboy not only won : it was more or less the sole survivor . |
| 6 | Another result of the ease and availability of the Pill is an assumption that this is more or less the only method of birth control . |
| 7 | But , as James Fenton wrote in a piece about The Killing Fields published in Tatler , with specific reference to Al Rockoff : ‘ More or less the only thing you do is try to get as close as possible to people who are killing each other — and take photographs of them . |
| 8 | If animals , particularly mature birds and the higher mammals , are taken as possessing more or less the full range of human capacities , with the exception perhaps of moral agency , and if the only dissimilarity is that the capacities are manifested in more limited ways , then there will be an almost irresistible temptation to give them moral status approaching that of recently discovered Stone Age tribes such as the Dani of Irian Jaya . |
| 9 | Giving in , or submissive behaviour , is more or less the opposite side of the coin to aggressive behaviour . |
| 10 | It 's more or less the hard ground . |
| 11 | Towards the end of my Baghdad tour I had regular tussles with the group captain in friendly games of tennis , but I was never able to take a set off him , which never surprised me since he was more or less the permanent Inter-Services Tennis Champion in the UK , ( Oddly enough , Jackie Hunter was my station commander early in the war and saved me from the wrath of my Air Officer Commanding — " Maori " Coningham — when I brought my bombs back when everyone else had " found the target " , but this was before the days of the night camera . ) |
| 12 | Until the beginning of the industrial revolution , there was a rough balance which kept the earth 's temperature more or less the same from one year to the next . |
| 13 | The station itself was being supervised by a presiding officer ( £96.55 ) doing more or less the same thing . |
| 14 | Could there be Bacon rooms , more or less the same , dotted throughout the house in order to create confusion ? |
| 15 | Perhaps the most interesting property of all , though , is that the range of sizes present at any one point in an air-fall pumice deposit is rather restricted , so that the fragments tend to be all more or less the same size , or to put it formally , the deposit is said to be well-sorted . |
| 16 | I watch intently for a half-hour , seeing how often the chub move out of the darkness and into the light , and that the time spent there is more or less the same on each occasion . |
| 17 | Of course , individual reformers did not need to be committed Philosophical Idealists in order to adhere to the new image ; old-fashioned ageism reached the same conclusion and had more or less the same remedies for the ‘ problem ’ . |
| 18 | We are still asking more or less the same questions we were a hundred years ago . |
| 19 | When partners are more or less the same age , this slower response will be balanced by the older man 's more delayed reactions . |
| 20 | Unfortunately it does n't work like that — you know that two cars of the same make will drive in more or less the same way , but two horses of the same size , shape and age can be totally different . |
| 21 | ‘ I realised that if I was going to switch guitars , I wanted something that had some kind of improvement , rather than just being more or less the same . |
| 22 | When I told her what was troubling me she just gave me a piece of clean rag and said more or less the same as Mum had . |
| 23 | The prices seemed more or less the same as those in London at the time I 'd left — a box of matches or a bar of Cadbury 's chocolate cost a penny . |
| 24 | Within this great encircling babel of tongues and cultures , aspirations and rivalries , lie the Pacific islands , regarded from afar as idyllic and palm-fringed and all more or less the same . |
| 25 | Before I first visited I supposed wrongly that , since the latitudes are more or less the same , the coastline would be vaguely similar to that of Maine or New Brunswick . |
| 26 | ‘ Hippy ’ on the flip is more or less the same song with the addition of a fuzzbox . |
| 27 | Of the situation regarding museums , Mr Sekera explained , ‘ Since 1989 state support has been nominally more or less the same after allowing for inflation . |
| 28 | She told me more or less the same story as Eric — that they are reserving double the usual amount of space for Jefferson over the second half of the year . ’ |
| 29 | They are situated on practically adjoining hills and are more or less the same distance away from Gubbio . |
| 30 | In Paul Corrigan 's study Doing Nothing he suggests that ‘ trouble in school ’ is more or less the same elsewhere . |