Example sentences of "more and less " in BNC.
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| 1 | The movement recurrently exemplified conflict typical of the wider political culture between more and less ‘ open ’ styles . |
| 2 | Case conferences should , as a matter of routine practice , make a much clearer distinction between more and less ‘ objective ’ evidence than they do at present . |
| 3 | A reader from a common law background is often puzzled by this , because it looks like the single concept of ‘ service ’ with which he is familiar ; he has to keep in mind the civil law distinction between more and less solemn modes . |
| 4 | These findings offered important support for theoretical proposals about children 's acquisition of the meanings of more and less as well as of other adjective pairs ( e.g. , big/small , tall/short , wide/narrow ) , in that they appeared to show that children first learned the meaning of the unmarked term for a dimension ( e.g. , big , tall ) , and interpreted the marked ( negative ) member ( small , short ) of the pair as if it had the same meaning as the unmarked ( positive ) member ( see H. Clark , 1970 ; Clark , 1973a ) . |
| 5 | But while a non-linguistic preference or bias might explain why the meaning of more appears to be acquired before that of less , there still appears to be some violation of the principle of Contrast when children respond to more and less as if their meanings were identical . |
| 6 | When children hear both terms in the same instruction or in the same condition , they do not treat more and less as synonymous . |
| 7 | Further evidence in support of this comes from studies that introduced a third term , in the form of a nonsense word , in contrast to more and less . |
| 8 | Another stirred one of two glasses of beans with his finger for tiv ( he had added and subtracted appropriately in response to more and less ) . |
| 9 | Children who were presented with a nonsense syllable alongside more and less in a variety of contexts made it contrast with more and less by adding or subtracting much smaller amounts ; by adding or subtracting everything ; by introducing some quite different manipulation ( stirring , flicking , rolling , tossing up and down , mixing both piles together ) , and so on . |
| 10 | Children who were presented with a nonsense syllable alongside more and less in a variety of contexts made it contrast with more and less by adding or subtracting much smaller amounts ; by adding or subtracting everything ; by introducing some quite different manipulation ( stirring , flicking , rolling , tossing up and down , mixing both piles together ) , and so on . |
| 11 | ( 1967 ) and Wannemacher and Ryan ( 1978 ) , offer further support for children 's observance of Contrast in their acquisition of more and less . |
| 12 | Once these conditions were altered , children clearly contrasted the meanings of more and less even when their lexical knowledge was still imperfect . |
| 13 | Later sophistications follow , such as balance between more and less essential events , between setting and events and , ultimately , the plotting of events to form some overall shape and to give a sense of resolution to the narrative . |
| 14 | Gayle Rubin has productively suggested that the whole idea of having more and less acceptable areas of consensual sexual activity is one of the concepts which ensures that the oppression of sexual minorities will continue . |
| 15 | This study looked at the responses of more and less arithmetically-able pupils . |
| 16 | Underlying this , was the idea that if the more and less able pupils used different strategies these could be identified . |
| 17 | Hence there was no difference between these more and less able children in the strategy they used to add . |
| 18 | I found that for tie problems such as ‘ 1+1 ’ , ‘ 2+2 ’ , response times were very quick and similar for the more and less able children . |