Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] [adv] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was more or less the case throughout the West Indies , although attitudes in Barbados were undoubtedly narrower than elsewhere . |
| 2 | But to the bulk of the party , Law s presence in government was a guarantee of the party 's independence ; with Law in charge the party would extract from coalition whatever there was to be gained , but at no risk , and when stripped of all complications this was more or less what Bonar Law intended all along . |
| 3 | I feel badly let down by Penguin because this was more or less what I had been trying to persuade them all along would happen . |
| 4 | This was more or less the view of the headmaster . |
| 5 | These were more or less identical to the British Military overseas ambulance train . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The present tax system was too complicated ; people setting up in business on their own were more or less forced to employ an accountant . |
| 8 | The contrary relation will therefore show up in a sentential context that specifies , or at least implies , that a single event is being referred to , such as I only met Mary once , and that was today/yesterday or ( somewhat less convincingly ) It was today/yesterday that I met Mary . |
| 9 | That was more or less his way of doing things and it cost a lot . |
| 10 | I worked directly under the Manager , Signor Cavatorta , who was very able and extremely diplomatic with his customers , and I learnt how indifferent and merciless all banks are towards any customer who has the misfortune to be in debt : that was more or less all . |