Example sentences of "more or [adv] [art] same " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , the threatened coal strike of 1925 , which occurred at more or less the same time , seemed to confirm this impression . |
| 2 | Always wear clothes to reveal your shape when having these taken , and adopt more or less the same poses . |
| 3 | Now he appears as a policeman , but in more or less the same character , as the star of his own series . |
| 4 | Although they describe harvest feasts in an opposed manner , Leapor and Duck are engaged in more or less the same argument . |
| 5 | Miss Kenton and my father had arrived at the house at more or less the same time — that is to say , the spring of 1922 — as a consequence of my losing at one stroke the previous housekeeper and under-butler . |
| 6 | It appears to be aimed squarely at what the Americans would call a ‘ resort diver ’ , rather than someone like me who dives several times a week in more or less the same areas . |
| 7 | ( Johnston 1976 , p. 217 ) At more or less the same time , Laura Mulvey took the discussion of women 's desire and fantasy out of the realm of the ideological/symbolic . |
| 8 | When both partners retire at more or less the same time , the adjustment is often easiest to organise . |
| 9 | As long as you can stay reasonably flexible a well-planned interview structure will make comparisons between candidates much easier because all candidates will have been put through more or less the same hoops . |
| 10 | Other phrases with more or less the same meaning are nihil obstat ( ‘ nothing hinders ’ ) and cum licentia ( ‘ with licence ’ or ‘ with permission ’ ) . |
| 11 | They all wanted to know more or less the same thing : ‘ What is this tunnel thing about ? ’ |
| 12 | Damage is calculated in more or less the same way as a stone thrower . |
| 13 | Ask a dozen American curators about Earl A. Powell III , the new Director of the National Gallery , Washington , and you get more or less the same general response : ‘ If you were having lunch with Rusty ( his nickname that everyone uses ) and did n't know what he did for a living , you would think he was either an Assistant Secretary of the Navy , a General Manager of General Motors , or a football coach . |
| 14 | At more or less the same time , a heroin injector from Liverpool , who had also been dealing to finance his own habit , moved house to one of Wirral 's more affluent townships and began dealing in heroin on a large scale-in ounces and half-ounces . |
| 15 | Advertising may well continue in much the same form as in the past and , therefore , careers in this field will remain more or less the same . |
| 16 | Is there any reason why the same debate , or a debate on the same question , should not be conducted at more or less the same time in a great number of different places ? |
| 17 | It should be remembered , however , that the great majority of inland sewage works themselves ultimately discharge their treated effluents to open watercourses , subject to more or less the same kinds of constraint as other dischargers . |
| 18 | It is no coincidence that expressions of the ‘ pro-Palestinian ’ and ‘ pro-Zionist ’ factions have occurred in rival publications at more or less the same time . |
| 19 | Were looking at the body beautiful and what we do to achieve it , we all arrived in the world with more or less the same package of features , limbs , faces , torso 's , since then , all of us I bet have tried to improve or disguise the way we look , what do we do ? , why do we do it ? , well let's start with a few questions , er , are you , well let me ask you this do you have a beautiful body ? , button one for yes , and button two for no |
| 20 | It was then widely believed that the universe was static , yet if space , and particularly time , were curved back on themselves , how could the universe continue forever in more or less the same state as it is at the present time ? |
| 21 | The universe existed and would continue to exist forever in more or less the same state as it is today . |
| 22 | I had dressed as well as I could that morning , in more or less the same stuff I 'd worn for Grandma Margot 's funeral . |
| 23 | Most of us apply more or less the same old lotions , creams and make-up all year round through force of habit . |
| 24 | I had to keep more or less the leverage more or less the same because you could n't differ them and er I er had that job to er do for and er it was the H M S Gothic and they was going to South Africa and er when er they was on , in the middle of South Africa on the coast one of the royalty died . |
| 25 | The series of Horta heads all have more or less the same basic subdivision into several clearly defined areas . |
| 26 | ‘ Awards ceremonies seem to adhere to more or less the same format the world over , ’ Maria commented , betraying slight disappointment . |
| 27 | Instead you should use the command SUBST A : B : / B : A : / which does more or less the same job . |
| 28 | The principal objective of the budget was to hold the public deficit for 1990 at more or less the same level in absolute terms as for 1989 , thereby reducing it from 11 per cent to 10.4 per cent of gross domestic product ( GDP ) . |
| 29 | Amaranth fell into a gentle sleep at more or less the same time as did the bulk of Sir Teddy Taylor 's conference audience . |
| 30 | Er , the truth about genetics was discovered more or less the same time Darwin put forward his theory in the early eighteen sixties by who was er erm carried out erm experiments in sweetpeas in the monastery garden and apparently sent a copy of his paper to Darwin . |