Example sentences of "more [conj] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | because of the way it tends to bind many poorer consumers into using just one type of credit ( considerably more costly than non-collection types ) more or less as a matter of course . |
| 2 | Medved muddies the waters by treating cinema , television and pop more or less as a single entity . |
| 3 | There are also several economic unions which operate more or less in a bloc-like manner . |
| 4 | In many instances this does not matter at all , because the full screen , ungridded printout will serve more than adequately as a reminder of the actual design which is stored in the Me \ directory computer memory . |
| 5 | With her bouffant hair , her crimson lips , her plump raincoated figure hour-glassed by a tight belt , she looked more than ever like a matryoshka , a Russian doll . |
| 6 | She suddenly recollected that she was now the wife of the director of a large company , and drew herself up with what she hoped was some dignity ; but she only succeeded in looking more than ever like a pouter pigeon . |
| 7 | He looked more than ever like a baby blackbird , rakish , half-strangled and very dear to me . |
| 8 | In the half-light of the editing suite his face appeared more than ever like a mask , the nose attenuated , the skin smooth and polished . |
| 9 | Feeling more than ever like a cur , Neil turned the pages — but it was all of her that was left to him — and , he told himself firmly , he would read just enough to discover the truth about her … and why she had hoarded the cuttings . |
| 10 | There was a particularly nasty crematorium in Mitcham , he recalled , with a chapel that looked more than usually like a public lavatory . |
| 11 | Children who were presented with a nonsense syllable alongside more and less in a variety of contexts made it contrast with more and less by adding or subtracting much smaller amounts ; by adding or subtracting everything ; by introducing some quite different manipulation ( stirring , flicking , rolling , tossing up and down , mixing both piles together ) , and so on . |
| 12 | Now it 's perfectly now the cost er the benefits from sort of marketing right to buy is really very , very dubious erm the government has shown time and again that what it takes then gives with one hand , it takes away with another and the costs are obvious , we are fragmenting our housing stock , we are putting it , we are likely to end up with more and more with a higher proportion of poor properties and erm there 's also the risk that if we do really have to be promoting right to buy we 're going to have people who are probably not sure whether they can afford to buy their house or are n't sure whether they even want to buy their house . |
| 13 | At the same time , at the level of practical pedagogy , there is a counter-tendency in the study of the national canon to concentrate more and more on a small and diminishing number of texts . |
| 14 | It looks more and more like a cover for a pax americana . |
| 15 | John Smith sounds more and more like a left-of-centre Conservative minister . |