Example sentences of "[adj] be more [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is more than twice the size of Trevor Pinnock 's English Concert ( Archiv ) , for example , and substantially larger than Sigiswald Kuijken 's Petite Bande ( Deutsche Harmonia Mundi ) . |
| 2 | If this is more or less true , then the strength of any solid should lie between E /10 and E /5 . |
| 3 | This is more or less the same as saying that theme normally precedes rheme . |
| 4 | Another result of the ease and availability of the Pill is an assumption that this is more or less the only method of birth control . |
| 5 | In areas of rocks of varied resistance incised meanders may be preserved in resistant rocks such as limestones and destroyed in areas of weak rocks such as clay : this is more or less as expected since the downstream sweep of the meander belt would destroy the spurs in clay regions . |
| 6 | Erm but this is more or less , indigenous within the engineering industry , there is even inherent within an engineering mind , and I 'm not with the planners or the technical experts , but even in the ordinary lay engineer , he looks to be able to do the job more efficiently , with the materials that he has in hand er and possibly introduce a new type of tool if he can get the proper material , and likewise the employer was doing the same thing . |
| 7 | And this was more than just a professorship . |
| 8 | This was more than just because ‘ Liverpool ’ is n't easy to rhyme . |
| 9 | ( Though of course one of the most efficient ways of removing women from the printing houses was to propose marriage , and this was more than once half-seriously proposed as a deliberate strategy . ) |
| 10 | This was more than twice the 80 litres/t volume running from grass that was ensiled with 50kg/t of sugar beet plus an inoculant , and 10 times the 20 litres seeping from grass wilted to 30% dry matter . |
| 11 | In the final quarter of the year , it surged and closed at its high of 330p , 24.5% up on the 30th September level ; this was more than twice what the FT 100 Share Index achieved and reflected investor enthusiasm for a group that is seen as a prime beneficiary of any pick up in advertising , has bags of room to take on new business ( 25% unutilised capacity on its magazine presses ) and is cash rich . |
| 12 | By 1880 this was more and more a matter of Great Russian chauvinism within the boundaries of the Russian Empire , and tsarist imperialism abroad , but it had great sentimental appeal among Slavs living under non-Slav rulers who were encouraged by it to look to this ‘ big brother ’ . |
| 13 | This was more or less the case throughout the West Indies , although attitudes in Barbados were undoubtedly narrower than elsewhere . |
| 14 | This was more or less the view of the headmaster . |
| 15 | The current account surplus in 1985 was more than entirely accounted for by oil , which had improved from a deficit of about £700m in 1979 to a surplus of £8bn in 1985 . |
| 16 | Moreover , workers aged between 18 and 24 in 1975 — 7 were more than twice as likely as older workers to experience unemployment , and this ratio has been maintained despite the massive increase in the numbers of unemployed during the following decade . |
| 17 | Socially , at this point the significance of design as such is more or less lost : significance can only been seen in terms of problems solved or products produced . |
| 18 | She then said — these are more or less her exact words — " I 'm sorry about this , but I 'm not altogether surprised . |
| 19 | Liquid Crystals These are more or less the opposite to glass . |
| 20 | These were more or less identical to the British Military overseas ambulance train . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | And and the three individuals who I worked with particularly , they 'd all been more or less written off , and they all come through with distinctions . |
| 23 | It was at its thickest in Mussallamiyah Bay , where a layer of oil six inches deep was more or less trapped by booms and sand barriers . |
| 24 | The present tax system was too complicated ; people setting up in business on their own were more or less forced to employ an accountant . |
| 25 | Erm , yes that is more or less the case . |
| 26 | Across Kent crime rose by fifteen percent in nineteen ninety two that 's more than twice the national average . |
| 27 | You know you can , you can work a bit of a flanker and put something on that 's more or less acceptable to them . |
| 28 | Of course that 's the only big site that we 've got , so once you 've built that one well that 's more or less er it . |
| 29 | So that 's it , that 's , that 's more or less , that 's the end of your analysis now . |
| 30 | That 's more or less another convention- and they do n't want to send you berserk , doing God-knows-what more damage . |