Example sentences of "more [conj] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a feeling of having been unexpectedly let out of school , I drove over the hills on the road to Reading and coasted along the unfenced part of the Quillersedge Estate until I thought I 'd come more or less to where Gareth had dropped the paint : parked off the road there and searched more closely for the place on foot . |
| 2 | However , with Sun and other compatible players moving into the Sparc SMP market , which Solbourne has had more or less to itself for some time , the company is being forced to look at other ways of differentiating its products . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | more or less with what 's a good will and who you have to have in mind and disposing of the estate and being tax effective so that that . |
| 6 | It was a national union , but it was a crime more or less with some bosses to belong to a trade union . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But I 'd dealt more or less with the small firms even to the the extent of collecting dues . |
| 9 | Er , we were , as I say , responsible more or less for staff erm and er so we were pretty busy really . |
| 10 | I 'm not sure whether I respect him more or less for his admissions . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | You have to stand more or less at attention all the time when you get locked up in there . |
| 14 | They are , of course , incapable of deliberate volition and move more or less at random ( although there is thought to be some evidence of a directional trend ) . |
| 15 | The passage has virtually no narrative progression : indeed , it begins more or less at the end of the interview . |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | One who saw both camps preparing for the talks says : ‘ It was all arranged so that Diana could stay more or less on her terms . |
| 18 | able to take a weekend away more or less on impulse ; |
| 19 | They keep her more or less on her old run , a regular freight Service from Holland to London , with occasional trips to the Baltic . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | A far-southern constellation , not hard to find because it is so compact ; it lies more or less between Achernar and Canopus . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Everything continues more or less as it had before , and it becomes increasingly evident that Jesus 's death has accomplished nothing . |
| 26 | Leaving everything more or less as it had been and closing the drawer , she turned her attention to the rest of the room . |
| 27 | Medved muddies the waters by treating cinema , television and pop more or less as a single entity . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | For example , the china which Queen Adelaide brought with her from Britain still exists more or less in its entirety in one Portuguese household in Funchal . |
| 30 | We work more or less in the same area but had n't talked to one another for a long time . |