Example sentences of "more [coord] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , I think it fair to say that if you 'd asked more or less to the next meeting and probably sub-committee would be quite , quite acceptable and I would thank you for drawing it to our to our attention . |
| 2 | And you you will know as well in relation to Policy H one that it was said that if fact development housing development in particular 's kept pace more or less with the er the policy of er the the policy set out in the structure plan . |
| 3 | But I 'd dealt more or less with the small firms even to the the extent of collecting dues . |
| 4 | Although care should be taken to choose varieties that ripen more or less at the same time to avoid losses , dredge mixtures are generally cut green and dried like hay to be fed ‘ on the straw ’ or made into silage . |
| 5 | The passage has virtually no narrative progression : indeed , it begins more or less at the end of the interview . |
| 6 | Now before we step the mast , we need to turn the boat more or less into the wind and that 's a good chance for us to start thinking about where the wind 's coming from . |
| 7 | We work more or less in the same area but had n't talked to one another for a long time . |
| 8 | more or less in the er almost in the middle of Spain . |
| 9 | And any join Well not anyone but most of the joiners did the undertaking more or less in the area they were in . |
| 10 | But er course we n n never got any money because we er m it more or less disbanded the Notts miners ' union that did , it er it took everything away was That was when we were er er s the Spencer union was formed more or less by the management . |
| 11 | The seething had been going on more or less from the time Taylor took over as manager . |
| 12 | ‘ I had to take him on more or less from the first . |
| 13 | It applies no more nor less to the most personal and transitory goals than to the most general and long-term . |
| 14 | It 's very dangerous because lots of people looking at you makes you think more and more about the image that you 're presenting to the world . |
| 15 | By 1804 Wordsworth had embraced an attitude usually described as Stoical — his poems refer more and more to the virtue of endurance in the face of suffering , age and death ( Michael , The Small Celandine , Resolution and Independence , Ode to Duty ) . |
| 16 | Mr Collum felt that implementation of international standards in the future would fall more and more to the Accounting Standards Board , although ideally he felt leadership should come from the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Financial Accounting Standards Board in the US and , ‘ if it can ever get its act together ’ , the European Commission . |
| 17 | Worse still , interest rates shot up and Romania had to pay more and more to the Western banks simply to service the debt . |
| 18 | Decision-making and prioritizing therefore fall more and more to the kind of people whose forte is attending meetings and getting the support of those present . |
| 19 | Unless local Bars are then strong enough to cope with the demand for advocacy , this will pass more and more to the solicitors . |
| 20 | As we enter more and more into the transcendent , the material world recedes and it is as if we mount the carriage of the transcendent and speed through a blurred landscape of the mundane , seeing it only as scenery , not as something threatening or important to us . |
| 21 | As you gradually get more and more into the thoughts you suddenly shout ‘ STOP ! ’ very loudly and clap your hands loudly simultaneously . |
| 22 | The image of the real parents contrasts more and more with the early infantile one , and this contrast includes others who become part of the superego , teachers and other authority figures … today we have the following problem : the inhibiting , controlling , and guiding function of the superego , which largely merges with the ego , is weakened through the weakness of the parents , through indulgent education which fails to train the ego , and through the general social climate of permissiveness . |
| 23 | And of course , you could say that , that could be happening more and more with the advances in medical science . |
| 24 | Increasing market share , becoming the low-cost producer , developing new products , and/or increasing employee productivity depend more and more on the kinds and quality of information systems in the organisation . |
| 25 | Ollivier had already been forced to remake his Ministry , which was now weakened by the presence of many who gave him only grudging support , and this in turn forced him to rely more and more on the Emperor 's personal intervention when difficulties arose . |
| 26 | We will have to rely more and more on the back-up squad to keep us going . |
| 27 | As Sartre insists more and more upon the virtues of specificity ( II , 200 — 05 ) , such is his distaste for Marxist or any other universalizing categories that he refuses even to countenance them , attempting to replace concepts with specificities , universals with singulars . |
| 28 | Although the advertising industry is almost promiscuous in its use of verbal slogans , the creative emphasis falls more and more upon the persuasive power of imagery — slow motion shots demonstrating the lustrous lightness of newly washed hair , or the soft resilience of freshly laundered towels — in fact it would be tiresome to list the repertoire of non-verbal devices deliberately designed to by-pass a critical vigilance based upon language . |
| 29 | They stared in fascination at the imperfect outline which did indeed look more and more like the print of a shoe the longer they gazed . |
| 30 | He had , from the beginning , no doubts of the direction in which it would be necessary and right to move : the War , he argued , ‘ is moving us more and more in the direction of Labour 's ideas and ideals ’ . |