Example sentences of "were [adv] or " in BNC.
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| 31 | Longer-term relationships had generally only developed where particular business interests were more or less directly involved . |
| 32 | These were more or less identical to the British Military overseas ambulance train . |
| 33 | At first , it seemed that the family — mother , father and two sisters — were more or less alone in their grief . |
| 34 | Neath , the leading Welsh club side of the moment , were more or less ignored because although their forwards could get around better than anyone else 's there would not have been much point if they could not win the ball in the first place . |
| 35 | The parishes were more or less equal in area , around 4000 acres ; their layout says a great deal for the Saxon ability to recognise and exploit soil features and for their respect for mutual rights of neighbouring communities . |
| 36 | Overall , the northern and southern halves of the motorway were more or less equal , with 200 incidents in the south between Dartford and junction 15 ( the M4 ) and 203 in the north between junctions 15 and Thurrock . |
| 37 | Besides myself there were three other passengers , but they all disembarked at Rarotonga , and after that , for the three days at sea before we reached Koraloona , Robins and I were more or less on our own . |
| 38 | The heavyweight Sunday Times , Sunday Telegraph and Observer were more or less holding their own . |
| 39 | Booz , Allen & Hamilton was forced to close down its executive search division in 1980 , when serious problems surfaced as a result of trying to carry on a recruiting business whilst at the same time having 3000 management consultancy clients on their books , who were more or less off-limits from the point of view of providing candidates for headhunting . |
| 40 | While England thus had a monopoly power to buy colonial products , the sugar and tobacco and other products of the colonies were more or less guaranteed the entire English market by a system of preferential tariffs . |
| 41 | Or that there are Gospels other than those in the New Testament , which were more or less arbitrarily excluded from the canon by councils composed of eminently mortal , eminently fallible men . |
| 42 | Twenty years ago , many of the smaller economies were more or less cut off from the world market economy . |
| 43 | First , there are too many complications to allow the conclusion that individuals were more or less likely to be receptive according to whether they were Protestant or Catholic . |
| 44 | When the natives had to pay yasak in furs and Russians were killing the dwindling stocks , or when , as in Chukotka , both sides were very short of provisions and the Russians , desperate for food , stole reindeer in large numbers , hostilities were more or less inevitable . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | " When they were out of a ship they were more or less in a state of intoxication , during which time they were in the society of the very lowest description that could be found . |
| 47 | " The gentlemen who sat on the bench were more or less connected with the shipping trade , and the law had been somewhat strained to obtain the conviction " . |
| 48 | Aye so of course As I say er i i we were more or less grew up with it . |
| 49 | ( One possible exception to this was Mexico , where the Communists were more or less tolerated until they made a misjudged and Comintern-inspired attempt to exploit an abortive right-wing coup against the portes Gil government in 1929 — see pages 39–40 . |
| 50 | Them were more or less joined on you know . |
| 51 | Well again er I would say conditions were were terrible as far as I was concerned , er a as far as tea breaks and what have you were concerned , you did n't have any what we would call official tea breaks , you simply took your chances and made a cup of tea and hid behind a bulkhead or whatever to drink this , er if you got caught by the foreman or the manager or somebody , then you were more or less bagged on the spot . |
| 52 | Given the whole family of crustaceans , it was possible to imagine an ideal or typical crustacean of which all the existing forms were more or less close realizations . |
| 53 | For instance we had no place to keep our er records , we had er minute books er we used to receive minutes from the management for example , after our monthly meeting with them , er and they were more or less dictated by the er personnel department , who were present at the meeting . |
| 54 | Er but er in my own opinion , I think that er employers were more or less forced , in the same way as we were , to recognize that they had a problem on their hands . |
| 55 | The other bones were more or less in a confused mass below the thorax . |
| 56 | Ingard shares were still quoted on the Stock Exchange , and we had evidence that they were more or less worthless . |
| 57 | I used to roam all just round the country , round this area , which was all fields at that time and when you got at top , top of you were more or less in the country . |
| 58 | And er take a couple of steps away from the corner you could n't see your a thing , so we were more or less stuck where we where . |
| 59 | It were more or less open tides the high tides used to come over and down here , it all used . |
| 60 | All of these were more or less subsumed under the rubric of the developed ( advanced industrial ) societies and the developing ( usually a euphemism for undeveloped or , more radically , underdeveloped ) societies . |