Example sentences of "[noun] be [adv] more [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The senior officials of these institutions are therefore more or less free to act as they wish , so long as they show a reasonable profit . |
| 2 | Their debts are now more than £6.5m and chairman Sir John Hall says he needs at least a week to draw up another rescue package before he and his fellow directors will be in a position to open talks with Kevin Keegan about the vacant manager 's position . |
| 3 | Indeed , except for first-row elements , band shifts are rarely more than one or two cm -1 , and particular precautions must be taken if they are to be observed at all . |
| 4 | The signs are that more and more will be heard of this gift as we approach the end of the millennium . |
| 5 | The designs are colourful but have very short floats — when using tuck designs , floats are never more than one stitch long , making these fabrics ideal for children 's garments . |
| 6 | In June 1964 , The Autocar 's testers remarked , ‘ In its appointments the Austin-Healey 3000 MkIII is now more or a touring car than a sports car . |
| 7 | Nothing today remains of Fonthill Abbey , though Strawberry Hill is still more or less intact . |
| 8 | One of the problems for the BHRCA was that more than one PPL licence may be needed ; for example , if the same music is played in the bar and reception , and both are self-contained . |
| 9 | This crucial element in Morgan 's evidence is an illusion and there is not the slightest shred of evidence that those societies where large numbers of people can be referred to by the terms for parent are societies where marriage is either more or less individualistic . |
| 10 | The difficulties in these regions are extreme ; the growing period in relatively arid zones is often more than twice that in more northerly regions and there is a real fire risk . |
| 11 | When he reached it , the village was little more than six huge farm buildings in the classic German style : each wall a grid of brown-painted timbers , filled in with rough-plastered brickwork . |
| 12 | The average in Japanese companies was rather more than twice this percentage . |
| 13 | Private dealers are neither more nor less scrupulous than dealers who operate from retail outlets , but they may prove more difficult to track down if something goes wrong . |
| 14 | The anterior or basalar sclerites are never more than two in number , and lie just above the episternum , while the posterior or subalar sclerite is almost always single and lies behind the pleural wing process and above the epimeron . |
| 15 | Many fossil plants are now more or less black , carbonized ( ‘ coalified ’ ) compressions . |
| 16 | Twenty six patients with Barrett 's columnar lined lower oesophagus were diagnosed by endoscopic documentation of the squamocolumnar junction being circumferentially more than 3 cm above the endoscopically determined anatomical oesophagogastric junction . |
| 17 | Or did the church actively create the canon in response to Marcion and other sectarian leaders whose ‘ inspired ’ writings were either more or less than the church accepted ? |
| 18 | Kuehn ( 1974 ) in an analysis of victim reports of 100 crimes found that crimes in which the victim was threatened by a weapon were neither more nor less completely reported than those in which no weapon was used . |
| 19 | The boats were never more than 36 seconds apart until the finish , where Conner took a flyer on the final run to end 2 min 8 sec behind . |
| 20 | The number of cases of developed Aids is now more than 2,649 . |
| 21 | The Wall Street Journal is now more or less convinced that Louis Gerstner , chairman and chief executive of RJR Nabisco Holdings Corp and brother of former IBM Corp top staffer Richard Gerstner , will be named as IBM 's next chief executive : under Gerstner 's reign , RJR has slashed its $29,000m debt by more than 50% , partly by selling off corporate assets — ‘ He is a guy who likes to break things up , ’ commented Curt Rohrman , a First Boston analyst who follows IBM . |
| 22 | In the earlier series of auctions , there were large differences ( in terms of yield ) between minimum and maximum accepted bids but market operators appear to have learned by experience and , with the four auctions of 1991 , the difference was never more than three basis points . |
| 23 | ( There was an Act of Parliament in the reign of George I , just when this house was being built , which decreed that their measurements should not be less than 13½in by 9½in by ½in ; , and these dimensions are still more or less adhered to today . ) |
| 24 | Most counties have a population in excess of 400,000 but the Isle of Wight and Powys in mid-Wales are little more than 100,000 . |
| 25 | " These problems are now more or less under control , with the mature plants helping to blanket out the weeds , " explains Barbara . |
| 26 | These variations are however more or less superficial and the main differences between timbers lie in their density . |
| 27 | Then again , Nicodemus would have learned and discovered that the Lord Jesus is infinitely more than a great teacher . |
| 28 | In the lungs , the result of all this branching is that the surface area inside each lung is rather more than 70 square yards . |
| 29 | Average survival after treatment of PCP is often more than 2 years and is increasing . |
| 30 | Development is far more than new building . |