Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] be [adv] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet the London we inherited from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is more or less a success . |
| 2 | In the mid 1980s approximately four hundred foreign banks were directly or indirectly represented in London with American , Japanese and Arab banks dominating the scene . |
| 3 | Geophysical work ( King , 1954 ) has demonstrated how some major British landforms are more or less coincident with New Red Sandstone features . |
| 4 | Warning that the future level and pace of North Sea development could be put at risk , he pointed out that estimates suggests about 100,000 Scottish jobs were directly or indirectly oil-related . |
| 5 | All are agreed , however , that competition in European telecommunications is more or less inevitable , as a debate at last week 's Networked Economy Conference in Paris , organised by Communications Week International , demonstrated . |
| 6 | So long as these descriptions are more or less correct they should be praised , and everyone 's attention drawn to the most unusual ones . |
| 7 | All of these problems were more or less overcome by ingenious chemical manipulation , so that a very wide range of semi-synthetic penicillins have become available . |
| 8 | All these societies were more or less developed economically , but did not use coinage . |
| 9 | In the other subfamilies the radial shields are partially or totally hidden . |
| 10 | This move was bitterly attacked by the planning profession , though in the event the process of scheme preparation quickened during the later 1930s ; by the end of the decade London and most of the large towns were wholly or almost wholly under planning control . |
| 11 | Sometimes when the little ones were weakly or had been abandoned by their mothers , we would have to take them inside and feed them by hand . |
| 12 | This rule may help to keep clear the distinction between those interventions which seek to challenge the structural conditions under which racist discourses are directly or indirectly reproduced , and those strategies which aim to interrupt their circulation in specific micro-contexts , and/or introduce alternative story lines . |
| 13 | Given the whole family of crustaceans , it was possible to imagine an ideal or typical crustacean of which all the existing forms were more or less close realizations . |
| 14 | The environments are relatively constant , selective pressures are more or less identifiable , the amount of isolation is often known , and the entire set of interacting species is known . |
| 15 | But a number of feminists have suggested that women in many cultures and many situations are partly or even totally excluded from this kind of formal discourse . |
| 16 | Once we have them , our reason considers them and we come to see that wholes are equal to the sum of their parts , or that all numbers are even or odd . |
| 17 | We have seen that Locke agrees that some things which we know , such as that all numbers are even or odd , could not be learnt directly from experience , and that he explains that he never meant otherwise , for what experience gives us is not knowledge itself , but its materials in the form of ideas . |
| 18 | Goodness knows how many others are emotionally or physically crippled . |
| 19 | Apart from these , the two rival systems were more or less on a par as far as simplicity and accord with observations of planetary positions are concerned . |
| 20 | For example , this definition of federalism seems reasonable enough : ‘ a federalised state is one in which the several units and their respective powers are constitutionally or otherwise legally united under the ultimate power of a central state or government ’ . |
| 21 | Overall in South America , some 22 per cent of the arid regions are severely or very severely affected by desertification and there are few remedial programmes in hand . |
| 22 | Twenty years ago , many of the smaller economies were more or less cut off from the world market economy . |
| 23 | Santa Cruz Operation Inc had been in discussions with Novell Inc for a NetWare client for its Open Desktop products — see front page — but those talks are more or less canned now that SCO thinks it 'll be able to get the same stuff through COSE . |
| 24 | One school of thought has it that managers of large private corporations are more or less their own masters ( Berle and Means , 1932 ) . |
| 25 | The largest heath in East Sussex is Ashdown Forest , with 2,600 hectares being more or less open habitat . |
| 26 | There is limited choice for the national advertiser in cinema — 60 seconds is more or less standard , though 30-second spots are used ; in magazines full pages , DPSs , halves and quarters ; in newspapers full pages , and , depending on whether the paper is broadsheet or tabloid , 35 cm × 6 , 25 cm × 4 , 15 cm × 2 are very widely used sizes : on TV , 30-second spots dominate , with 20-second and 10-second spots becoming more popular ; in posters , 4-sheets are still most common . |
| 27 | If , as has been suggested above , insider evaluation is primarily associated with curriculum improvement , it comes as little surprise that proposals for particular approaches are directly or indirectly related to models of curriculum design and development . |
| 28 | The alternative regime in ss219 to 229 applies if : ( a ) Target is an unquoted trading company or the holding company of a trading group ( an unquoted company will include one whose shares are traded on the Unlisted Securities Market ) ; ( b ) the purchase of own shares is wholly or mainly for the benefit of Target 's trade or any of its 75% subsidiaries ; ( c ) the purchase does not form part of a scheme or arrangement the main purpose of which is to avoid tax or enable shareholders to participate in the company 's profits without being taxed on dividends ( there is a clearance procedure under s225 ) ; ( d ) the vendor shareholders are resident and ordinarily resident in the UK in the tax year in which the buy-in occurs ; any nominee shareholder must also be so resident , so if the distribution treatment is desirable it can be achieved by interposing non-UK-resident nominees ; ( e ) the shareholder has held his shares for at least five years ; ( f ) the shareholder 's shareholding immediately after the buy-in has been substantially reduced ( ie , by 25% or more , and his entitlement to profits must be similarly reduced ) ; for these purposes the shareholder must include the shareholdings of his " associates " as determined in accordance with s227 ; ( g ) the shareholder must not be connected with the company following the buy-in , and for these purposes he will be connected if he is entitled to acquire more than 30% of the share capital or voting rights in the company or assets on a winding up . |
| 29 | But seven hierarchical layers is enough or more than enough for all but the largest corporations . |
| 30 | The other bones were more or less in a confused mass below the thorax . |