Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] less [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since Ruth was required to be less and less with the children she found herself with too much time on her hands , and since she was unused to idleness she found the vacant hours trying . |
| 2 | The historian has to concern himself more and more with the disentangling of mass trends and less and less with the exploration of the work of individuals . |
| 3 | Suddenly Jack was playing less and less on the tour and so Greg asked me if I 'd be interested in working for him . |
| 4 | The classic working-class ‘ mum ’ , living at home to look after her numerous children with the man as the bread-winner , while a folk myth sustained by the Inland Revenue and the population census amongst others in the 1970s , conformed less and less to the reality . |
| 5 | So , they spend more and more time in the business of politics and less and less in the business of business . |
| 6 | While their relationship managed to remain friendly they saw each other less and less in the years to come . |
| 7 | In most countries north of the Alps wine was the luxury of the rich , even though most of the wine drunk at this time was what we should call ‘ vin ordinaire ’ ; and even communion wine ( which had done so much to foster the growth of the northern vineyards ) was drunk less and less by the laity in these centuries , until communion in one kind became the rule . |
| 8 | Adam sat motionless in one of the corners — looking less and less like a real person , Ruth noted ; he never spoke now , or appeared to hear if anyone addressed him . |
| 9 | — the spelling of English was more or less fixed several hundred years ago ; but the pronunciation keeps changing , so that even where a letter once corresponded more or less to a sound , now it may not ; |
| 10 | After this , he resigned himself more or less to an athletics-oriented existence , taking up the offer of a job in a sports equipment shop , where he would be granted ample time off to compete in meetings and train regularly . |
| 11 | And more : ‘ LEGA … represents en bloc the fourth or fifth grouping in Italy , behind IRL , ENI and Fiat , but more or less on a par with Montedison . ’ |
| 12 | Apart from these , the two rival systems were more or less on a par as far as simplicity and accord with observations of planetary positions are concerned . |
| 13 | She had settled on the bottom with her bows more or less on a north-south line . |
| 14 | Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul , for quite different and more fundamental reasons than I 'd disposed of Blyth , and then a year after that I did for my young cousin Esmerelda , more or less on a whim . |
| 15 | So it could be used as a preliminary check for patients , more or less on a routine basis ? |
| 16 | erm Yes , now if we get to about half way down there 's a plus in the margin , and the third line in the bracket below that plus , more or less on a level with a three dot , and a little bit below , it says , William , I think it 's Wilkinson , a minister , curate of St Ebbe 's Parish , ‘ his answer that he must attend the burials and christenings ’ , so obviously he could n't work on the fortifications . |
| 17 | It 's not what they hope to see , but it 's more or less on the spot of what once was the herb garden for the monks of Shrewsbury Abbey . |
| 18 | Whetton seemed to move into the All Black position more or less on the grounds of seniority and his experience of captaining Auckland . |
| 19 | And it 's more or less on the way to your place at Kew . " |
| 20 | More or less on the same lines having a point of view and putting it across without wavering , do n't erm |
| 21 | but they 've changed now , they 're more or less on the same basis as the U R C |
| 22 | Cos you 're nearly , you know , more or less on the corner there anyway are n't you ? |
| 23 | It follows that it is possible for a member to have the same problem raised by both bodies more or less at the same time . |
| 24 | War was declared and , more or less at the same time , her mother , who wished to distance her from the rough and ready children at the village school , arranged for her to have piano lessons . |
| 25 | She remarried more or less at the same time as I did . |
| 26 | A lamb remains a lamb until it loses its milk teeth , more or less at the end of the year , and — if it has n't lost its life as well by then — it becomes a hogget . |
| 27 | If overt collusion is not permitted , then firms may be able to replicate its effect via tacit collusion ( Tirole , 1989 , ch. 6 ) , which may take the form of ‘ conscious parallelism ’ with firms making identical price changes more or less at the same time . |
| 28 | Hermes Trismegistus emerged from Egypt more or less at the time in which Zoroaster and the Magi became respected figures among the Greeks : they will have to be considered together . |
| 29 | Well they did n't mind catching them that these here gamekeepers they come on more or less at the finish of the harvest over the field with the guns what was left . |
| 30 | These indicate that three strands have been plied together ; they are obviously thicker and knit up more or less as a double knitting type yarn . |