Example sentences of "or less the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another result of the ease and availability of the Pill is an assumption that this is more or less the only method of birth control . |
| 2 | But , as James Fenton wrote in a piece about The Killing Fields published in Tatler , with specific reference to Al Rockoff : ‘ More or less the only thing you do is try to get as close as possible to people who are killing each other — and take photographs of them . |
| 3 | Bumboy not only won : it was more or less the sole survivor . |
| 4 | Shipman 's two-volume Story of the Cinema ( Hodder and Stoughton ) is also a very good read — the first volume goes up to Gone With The Wind and the second starts with Citizen Kane and reaches more or less the present day . |
| 5 | This means that the heads stay in more or less the right position when switching between applications , thus speeding things up a little . |
| 6 | well this people I mean with , with , that I mean that really is more or less the same amount as the other companies have said for er more or less the whole lot , so why the wardrobes are so cheap and yet the , the bed surrounding is so expensive , we do n't know |
| 7 | And the ‘ they ’ of more or less the whole town will have heard too . |
| 8 | If animals , particularly mature birds and the higher mammals , are taken as possessing more or less the full range of human capacities , with the exception perhaps of moral agency , and if the only dissimilarity is that the capacities are manifested in more limited ways , then there will be an almost irresistible temptation to give them moral status approaching that of recently discovered Stone Age tribes such as the Dani of Irian Jaya . |
| 9 | It 's more or less the hard ground . |
| 10 | Giving in , or submissive behaviour , is more or less the opposite side of the coin to aggressive behaviour . |