Example sentences of "but [pron] [be] [adv] or " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Honey , I 'd love to , but I 'm more or less stuck here as much as you are at the moment .
2 There 's no rules in our business , but there 's more or less a convention that we do n't kill each other .
3 Well it was one big bedroom but there was more or less like a loft .
4 by no means all of the old sport s were abandoned , but they were more or less confined either to the margins of community life or to the remoter parts of the nation .
5 He 's badly cut up from the broken glass but he 's more or less in one piece . ’
6 I 'll give you the cast list but it is more or less the same as last time .
7 It 's not what they hope to see , but it 's more or less on the spot of what once was the herb garden for the monks of Shrewsbury Abbey .
8 He desperately wanted to rest , but it was now or never .
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