Example sentences of "or less " in BNC.
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| 1 | Matisse and all the others saw the twentieth century with their eyes but they saw the reality of the nineteenth century , Picasso was the only one in painting who saw the twentieth century with his eyes and saw its reality and consequently his struggle was terrifying , terrifying for himself and for the others , because he had nothing to help him , the past did not help him , nor the present , he had to do it all alone and , in spite of much strength he is often very weak , he consoled himself and allowed himself to be seduced by other things which led him more or less astray . |
| 2 | The first difficulty is , despite the destructions , the enormous number of existing pictures , many of them signed , and in one way or another more or less Bellinesque . |
| 3 | By other forms of reproduction an image may be more or less degraded , so that nothing can be learnt from them . |
| 4 | By now Kapuscinski is on his ‘ last legs ’ , and he telexes Warsaw to say that he wants to leave and that it is ‘ more or less clear ’ that ‘ the Angolans will win ’ . |
| 5 | The party structure followed was based on the Irish civil war antagonism of 1922–3 , with the pro-Treaty party more or less in power until the anti-Treaty party entered politics in 1930 . |
| 6 | Since then , the hierarchy has met more or less three times per year , but usually in secret sessions . |
| 7 | Others , more robust or less perceptive , found , on the contrary , a renewed zest for life in the perpetual animated discussions occasioned by the topic . |
| 8 | Fortunately , he wrote , while every person , more or less , in the Western world , has access to pen and paper and can write down a word or two , few will turn as naturally to painting or music to soothe their troubled breasts . |
| 9 | Add the kilo of sugar and stir water , sugar and wort until they are more or less dissolved . |
| 10 | Jilly Jonathan had been luckier , or less appallingly unlucky . |
| 11 | Garments fluttered over her head and she emerged more or less inside a pleated tennis dress , sailor-collared but daringly short . |
| 12 | I was more or less resigned to the way things had turned out and just got on with life . |
| 13 | If towing is permitted with only a wing-tip man , it is vital that the pilots all recognise that this is only safe if the ground is more or less level and the wind is very light . |
| 14 | If the glider is facing more or less directly into the wind , and there is a pilot in the cockpit , it is just as safe as it would be after a normal landing . |
| 15 | During the first three years of full-time drug squad work ( 1966–8 ) arrests totalled some sixty-four persons — or less than two per month . |
| 16 | But before falling in love with Lucy , she was not the type to lie awake , miss meals , weep , miss work , lose weight , have eczema , fall asleep with the light and fire blazing , feel hopeless , feel that everything was more or less meaningless , be unable to cope . |
| 17 | More or less fancied herself as a fox , the largest predator in the British Isles , beautiful pelt , amber eyes , full and gorgeous tail ; a stink to drive away the timid . |
| 18 | This is a key point because you should always feel more or less equal to that which confronts you . |
| 19 | The object , therefore , is to force your opponent to fight in unfamiliar or less preferred ways that he finds difficult . |
| 20 | They knew their business , more or less . |
| 21 | His introduction to day-school went more or less unnoticed . |
| 22 | It was situated in an old house , a three-storey building which the students and others had the run of , more or less . |
| 23 | I would say that the child is capable — more or less — of recognizing that other people have mental states different to his own . |
| 24 | Recall that constructivism refers only to mental representations at the level of the input systems , as entities which can be translated , more or less directly , into the language of neuropsychology . |
| 25 | My English friend Annie was more or less brought up by her nan in a back-to-back in Manchester . |
| 26 | It 's a pain being so repressed , he more or less says . |
| 27 | The Pullmans , it was announced , would be kept more or less exclusively for Pullman Rail 's newly created non-steamcharter haul business . |
| 28 | It should describe how the characters , usually non-aristocratic or less educated , express moods , emotions and actions as they would in real life . |
| 29 | The movements are more or less directed sideways , i.e. écarté or effacé , as in the dances fur Romeo , Mercutio and Benvolio in Romeo and Juliet and fur the Tutor in A Month in the Country . |
| 30 | We all limp , more or less , was the antihero 's way of putting it , and for him all consciousness was a disease . |