Example sentences of "[det] [conj] less [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 | In any event , however , the number of branches says less and less about capacity in banking . |
| 17 | His remark to Berthe Morisot in 1889 — ‘ I go less and less to paris , where the only thing people talk about is politics ’ — supports this view . |
| 18 | In The Silmarillion we learn that water is the province of the Vala Ulmo , and that from it ( sea or river ) there often comes assistance ; the incident with Sam and Frodo begins to seem less and less like chance , more and more of a ‘ sending ’ . |
| 19 | But the state 's shabby and dangerous schools look less and less like breeding grounds for the biotechnologists and virtual-reality scriptwriters of the future . |
| 20 | Like other reform-minded Communists in Warsaw , he finds he has less and less in common with the Party 's local base . |