Example sentences of "[pron] more [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We made everything ourselves more or less . |
| 2 | The rent for the club room er five pound per go , a hundred and fifteen pound erm the Christmas social , we spent fif thirty five fifty one on the refreshments and seven eighty nine on the whisky , making a forty three forty expenditure the club trophies , we spent nineteen pound fifty this year and we saved a lot of money on that this year , we spent about a hundred and thirty to forty last year erm so we have got a quite a difference just trying to find last year 's erm there they are trophies , a hundred and sixteen pound we paid last year so have , we did save a lot of money by doing them ourselves more or less . |
| 3 | Truth was , I more than once looked back over my shoulder to see if anything was following me . |
| 4 | ‘ Then I more or less let the whole thing drop , ’ he said . |
| 5 | I more or less demanded that Nigel be referred to her . |
| 6 | I more or less gave up cottaging for a while . |
| 7 | And it was also a place where I could get my ship repaired by skilled persons whom I more or less trusted . |
| 8 | I more or less fell into it , and without quite realising what I was doing obeyed a primitive instinct to hide by crawling under the track . |
| 9 | ‘ I more or less had to prise it out of him , but in the end he decided I was n't such a bad risk , after all . ’ |
| 10 | I believed at the time that I more or less grasped the metaphorical implications of this , but after I had put the phone down I found I was not as clear as I should have hoped to be about exactly what was required of me in concrete practical terms . |
| 11 | So I more or less had a crew cut . |
| 12 | There go the family jewels , thought Agger to himself more than once . |
| 13 | Where Maxse did find himself more or less isolated was in allowing his frustrations to lead him , along with Willoughby de Broke , to consider the formation of an alternative party of the right . |
| 14 | After this , he resigned himself more or less to an athletics-oriented existence , taking up the offer of a job in a sports equipment shop , where he would be granted ample time off to compete in meetings and train regularly . |
| 15 | The poem is defined , technically , as the ‘ experience of the right kind of reader has when he peruses the verses ’ ( Richards 1926 : 10 ) ) , and the right kind of reader is the one who manages to recreate in himself more or less completely the collection of impulses which the poet expressed in the poem or , more exactly , the ‘ relevant experience of the poet when contemplating the completed composition ’ ( Richards 1967 : 178 ) . |
| 16 | Although in his later years , Einstein was to involve himself more and more in social and political matters — especially pacifism and Zionism — he was fundamentally a theoretical physicist through and through . |
| 17 | The historian has to concern himself more and more with the disentangling of mass trends and less and less with the exploration of the work of individuals . |
| 18 | While Humanae Vitae began the detachment of large segments of the Catholic community , particularly more vocal segments , from the near unanimous and unquestioned following of papal authority characteristic of the pre-Vatican II era , it was left to John Paul and Cardinal Ratzinger , prefect from November 1981 of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith , to harden that detachment into a consistent attitude of distrust as the pope seemed to distance himself more and more from many of the central values of the Council , and of the most apparently positive and welcomed developments of Catholicism in the subsequent years . |
| 19 | Mosley was opposed to the reprisals of the Black and Tans in Ireland and began to identify himself more and more with Lord Robert Cecil 's League of Nations Union . |
| 20 | As time went on , Finch found himself more and more attached to bed . |
| 21 | He isolated himself more and more from his friends and colleagues ; he died , after an overdose of painkillers , in Guildford Hospital 26 March 1966 . |
| 22 | After the rut the males separate from the groups of females and begin their more or less solitary existence once again . |
| 23 | This perspective takes as its point of departure the discrepancy between the law 's assertion that shareholders control corporate managers and the reality of their more or less total failure to exercise any of the responsibilities of ownership . |
| 24 | Every city , every great city , has its more or less exclusive residential areas or suburbs ; its areas of light and of heavy industry , satellite cities , and casual labor mart , where men are recruited for rough work … |
| 25 | And she once again had the strong , peculiar feeling that was coming over her more and more often : the feeling that she had nothing in common with those two-legged creatures with a head on their shoulders and a mouth in their face . |
| 26 | I 'm sorry , Henry , but I have written a paper , which I 'm planning to send to Tom Haines , which more or less says precisely this . |
| 27 | Two events , which more or less coincided with Geikie 's retiral , had a profound effect on the future of the Survey . |
| 28 | ‘ I think it was quite a victory , looking at ‘ The Aztecs ’ , that they allowed me some leeway there : having me chosen as the wife of the Warrior , which more or less said , look she 's marriageable now . |
| 29 | She took heed , going on to match par at each of the 7th , 8th and 9th holes on her way to an outward half of 32 which more or less sealed her title . |
| 30 | The second theme that I 'd like to deal with which more or less incorporates the third is the theme of people changing as well as how appearances can be deceiving . |