Example sentences of "of more or " in BNC.
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| 1 | The grand form offered a scale of more or less assimilation to the form hidden in the wood , the surface a scale of textures , on both of which the sculptors played , and they are a source of specific qualities of the genre . |
| 2 | And the ‘ they ’ of more or less the whole town will have heard too . |
| 3 | Although the building is of more or less one period , it is still nonetheless a higgledy-piggledy place to find one 's way about in , as though the builders had not planned it as a whole but acted on whims and perhaps the need to accommodate an expanding family . |
| 4 | It was evidently widely felt that its representatives were capable of more or less any form of major misdemeanour . |
| 5 | It would also be a simple matter of alter the ‘ daily ’ timing to a period of more or less than one day . |
| 6 | Adam and Rufus Fletcher , for instance , though both white , Caucasian and of more or less Anglo-Saxon-Celtic-Norse-Norman ancestry , were very dissimilar in appearance , Adam being slight and white-skinned with a lot of bushy ( now receding ) dark hair , while Rufus was burly and fair with curiously sharp , pointed features for so fleshy a man . |
| 7 | Children who know the meaning of more or of both more and less are careful to distinguish them from each other and from nonsense words introduced in the same setting . |
| 8 | This never in fact takes place , in that the fields are always sites of struggle for the stake of more or less autonomization . |
| 9 | I 'm not trying to make it hard for you , I 'm trying to work out what is useful for you , cos it 's no good you just sort of more or less copying it out . |
| 10 | For most people nowadays , any mention of computers conjours up vague images of more or less two things : either Sonic the Hedgehog , or a shapeless , grey , John-Majorish boredom . |
| 11 | Liam Brady 's choice of more or less the side who lost to Falkirk in the Scottish Cup the previous weekend — Rudi Vata was replaced by Brian O'Neil — was not so much a vote of confidence as a challenge to those players to prove they could not be so bad again . |