Example sentences of "[conj] less as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lewis 's broadcasts during the war were in three series , and they were written up ( published more or less as spoken over the air ) as Broadcast Talks ( 1942 ) , Christian Behaviour ( 1943 ) and Beyond Personality ( 1944 ) . |
| 2 | But the expectation is that the resolution will pass , more or less as drafted . |
| 3 | He recommended extension more or less as planned to Market Harborough , round the lower contours of the Lias upland blocking Foxton from the Welland Valley . |
| 4 | And if you have no improvement plan then you just drift doing things more or less as you have always done them . |
| 5 | If you want to leave the pond more or less as it is , then a kid 's fishing net is the best way to remove the dead leaves without disturbing too much sediment . |
| 6 | Taking orders in this way I do not have to lay out large sums on yarn ; the cones can be bought more or less as required . |
| 7 | In 1977 ( more or less as in 1969 ) only 12 per cent had considered this , and only a very small proportion of these had done anything about trying to get some type of credit not actually used in the end by them . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | As it happens , this is one of those cases where you can use the classic problem-solving approach more or less as it stands . |
| 10 | She felt completely comfortable in her presence , and the two of them talked to each other more or less as equals . |
| 11 | The immense , landless mass of Pacific water is more or less as it always has been . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Worse , the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ) has served notice that it is going to treat cable firms , under the terms of the 1992 Cable Act , more or less as it treats telephone companies — that is , with vigilance . |
| 14 | Foucault has even been accused of returning , in this work , to the concept of a totality in the episteme ; it has certainly been somewhat hastily assumed that the latter can be appropriated more or less as a new way of describing a historical ‘ period ’ . |
| 15 | Everything continues more or less as it had before , and it becomes increasingly evident that Jesus 's death has accomplished nothing . |
| 16 | Irwin , or any Viceroy , had by the end of the twenties only two possibilities before him : either to follow , for as long as British willpower and resources lasted , an unending road of remorseless repression , or to parley , more or less as an equal with Gandhi and his adjutants with a view to guiding the country , maybe fairly slowly but nonetheless unrelentingly , towards self-government . |
| 17 | The sentence summarizes and interprets a setting which up to now we have seen more or less as detached onlookers : by using the language which the locals themselves might use ( " being turned up " ) , it invites us to become humanly involved , to see ourselves as insiders . |
| 18 | He had never married , but his will shows that he regarded Elsynge , his successor in the clerkship , more or less as a son . |
| 19 | In areas of rocks of varied resistance incised meanders may be preserved in resistant rocks such as limestones and destroyed in areas of weak rocks such as clay : this is more or less as expected since the downstream sweep of the meander belt would destroy the spurs in clay regions . |
| 20 | Leaving everything more or less as it had been and closing the drawer , she turned her attention to the rest of the room . |
| 21 | They 're more or less as a , I do n't think there 's a great lot of difference onl I d I , they 're not pushing , they have n't the same , the , I would like to say , I would say they have n't the same interest in their union , they 've not the same interests in the union as they had in the earlier days when there was a union . |
| 22 | In fact , George Every , then a lay brother at Kelham , with whom I had started a correspondence , told me later that Eliot , while praising some individual points , had said that the general impression it gave was of material being put through a machine and coming out the other side more or less as it was before . |
| 23 | Had I had the receiver in my hand when some break in the conversation occurred at this point , I should have explained to you that it is in fact neither ; it is merely an examination of the various modes of thinking which the phrase implies — an examination which , in the tradition of British philosophical inquiry , seeks merely to study and perhaps oil the conceptual machinery and then to put it back more or less as it was . |
| 24 | Medved muddies the waters by treating cinema , television and pop more or less as a single entity . |
| 25 | It is used less and less as people have cracked down because of its toxicity — it used to be sloshed around . |
| 26 | Customers learned to think of computers more as platforms and less as exotic paraphernalia . |
| 27 | But while a non-linguistic preference or bias might explain why the meaning of more appears to be acquired before that of less , there still appears to be some violation of the principle of Contrast when children respond to more and less as if their meanings were identical . |
| 28 | When children hear both terms in the same instruction or in the same condition , they do not treat more and less as synonymous . |
| 29 | Now , conflicts between instinctual drives and the controlling agency occur more and more as social and political conflicts , and less and less as purely psychological ones . |