Example sentences of "more [conj] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This observation corresponds more or less to Jacobsson 's list ( pp. 60-2 ) of the ten types of context where need can be used as a modal : Type 1 Need I be present ? |
| 2 | Er , we were , as I say , responsible more or less for staff erm and er so we were pretty busy really . |
| 3 | When a young lad , well as a young lad you were n't allowed to be cos you 're not going to be in there son , and as I was er saying until I , until I left school I was more or less at work between school and bedtime you see , but er the majority of lads used to do a , do a little part-time job in those days |
| 4 | According to Lindsay Neil , manager of the authority 's HIV , Aids and sexual health programme : ‘ Members of these communities are no more or less at risk of HIV infection than others . ’ |
| 5 | You have to stand more or less at attention all the time when you get locked up in there . |
| 6 | Thus , any decision by an authority to spend more or less on services than the government 's assumed level will be reflected directly in the level of charge it has to set . |
| 7 | able to take a weekend away more or less on impulse ; |
| 8 | There is no really well-defined pattern , but the constellation is not hard to identify , because it lies more or less between Altair and Fomalhaut ; the line of three stars of which Altair is the central member points to it . |
| 9 | A far-southern constellation , not hard to find because it is so compact ; it lies more or less between Achernar and Canopus . |
| 10 | Grasses have a tendency to ‘ winter burn ’ more or less in proportion to the amount of herbage standing in a field at the onset of frosty weather . |
| 11 | Do people participate more or less in villages , towns or cities ? |
| 12 | Rising spending on consumer goods in turn allowed the industries producing them to grow more or less in line with those producing means of production . |
| 13 | We we we know one or two people erm more or less by face , not by name . |
| 14 | No , I assure you of that but , well , for one thing the Elsie I knew made it clear to me that she wished to make a new life for herself , start more or less from scratch . |
| 15 | And I went round town on Saturday and I 'd gone more or less from work as well so I 'd got my big bag with me and ooh my shoulder ! |
| 16 | The Scots finished their 50 overs on 145 for five , with Donald Orr not out 32 , off 54 balls , and Jim Govan unbeaten on 31 , off 43 balls , figures which compare more than favourably with Alastair Storie , whose 25 took him 82 balls . |
| 17 | They provide a very active participation in the many voluntary groups supporting the revolution and contribute much more than previously to development through participation in the labour force . |
| 18 | Now dad Brian needs him more than ever with Forest taking on Norwich at Carrow Road tonight reeling from three successive defeats . |
| 19 | She surveyed the scene , feeling more than ever like Dante in the Inferno . |
| 20 | He looked more than ever like Don Quixote confronting the most formidable of spectral windmills ; and his tenor voice blazed from a reed to a trumpet in his indignation . |
| 21 | Now , from the mid-seventeenth century onwards , they were more than ever in evidence , as pamphleteers and propagandists ready to justify them grew in numbers . |
| 22 | It was in the reign of ‘ Farmer George ’ that drainage became more than ever in vogue , ‘ improvement ’ being all the rage . |
| 23 | Ours are just figureheads and that shows more than ever in wartime . ’ |
| 24 | More than enough in fact . |
| 25 | The NY-5 loved being tuned to dropped D , settled more than happily into DADGAD , and did n't even have a problem coping with a low C on the bottom string in conjunction with a heavy plastic thumbpick . |
| 26 | The remote island of Pantelleria , off the coast of Sicily and more than halfway to Tunisia , produces a superb dessert wine . |
| 27 | So the arrangements were made with the White Star line and unbeknown to Nellie , Liam eventually did get two reservations on the new ship , which was brought down from Liverpool to Southampton , where most of the passengers got on , and then to Cherbourg to pick up some more and finally to Queenstown before crossing the Atlantic to New York . |
| 28 | The ability of modern technology to cope with the problem of soil erosion is summarised thus : ‘ Growing populations may in part have destroyed more land than they improved , but it makes little sense to project past trends into the future , since we know more and more about methods of land preservation and are able by means of modern methods , to reclaim much land , which our ancestors have made sterile . ’ |
| 29 | It has just won an additional franchise in Germany and according to Elstone , the company will move more and more into Europe as the UK market continues to mature . |
| 30 | Without new taxing powers , local authorities would come to depend more and more on help from the National Exchequer and , since he who pays the piper calls the tune , the result must be even stronger central influence over local decisions . |