Example sentences of "more [conj] [adv] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Then I more or less let the whole thing drop , ’ he said . |
| 2 | Whereas before I had more or less ignored the game and engaged myself in gossipy conversation with whoever was E ) laying opposite me , I now began to act out a parody of the ludicrous pastime in which I found myself , tackling everyone in sight , yelling for the ball to be passed to me , jumping up and down , and generally getting in everyone 's way . |
| 3 | The two elements , those who more or less kept the rules and those who never tried , had always lived side by side in Paradise Street . |
| 4 | ‘ David more or less said the same , but I really do n't know what to think . |
| 5 | Erm we more or less know the young the young thug element as such . |
| 6 | On being asked about the condition of the front door and windows , he admitted they had n't been painted for many years and that the door had more or less reached the end of its life , and showed it . |
| 7 | He built himself an extraordinary turrety and battlemented house , Strawberry Hill , at Twickenham in Middlesex , and then be wrote a romance , The Castle of Otranto , more or less using the house as a background . |
| 8 | Certainly until John got sick his Dad more or less avoided the bedroom . |
| 9 | But er course we n n never got any money because we er m it more or less disbanded the Notts miners ' union that did , it er it took everything away was That was when we were er er s the Spencer union was formed more or less by the management . |
| 10 | And for those reasons and for the fact that I , more or less enjoyed the journey and had to come anyway as a chauffeur ! |
| 11 | This refers to the decision of the NATO countries in December 1979 , when Europe more or less begged the US to act as its protector . |
| 12 | The second theme that I 'd like to deal with which more or less incorporates the third is the theme of people changing as well as how appearances can be deceiving . |
| 13 | So that , no matter what they do , they are more or less giving the same performance each time . |
| 14 | I believed at the time that I more or less grasped the metaphorical implications of this , but after I had put the phone down I found I was not as clear as I should have hoped to be about exactly what was required of me in concrete practical terms . |
| 15 | ‘ Basically what we did was occupy the airport and set up positions more or less to keep the locals , cattle and goats off the runway , ’ said Captain Dave Hall . |
| 16 | You could more or less see the daylight . |
| 17 | He more or less started the Gloucester County Youth Orchestra , which he conducted for 13 years , as well as running the County Music Summer Schools . |
| 18 | And I think in terms of justifying that , if we had that you know , if you 're saying people have to justify why they 're going , I think they 'd all more or less say the same . |
| 19 | Throughout the 1340s and 1350s the king played on the commons ' fear of a French invasion of England : the threat that the French might ‘ destroy the English tongue and occupy the realm of England ’ was used more than once to persuade the commons to grant money for the war , and the discovery at the sack of Caen of a French plan for the invasion of England in 1339 was a gift to royal propaganda . |
| 20 | There were several riots , and local Ethiopian troops opened fire more than once to quell the angry refugees . |
| 21 | It was perhaps even more alarming to learn that the Distant Early Warning System , the chain of radar stations ringing the Soviet Union from Greenland to Alaska , had more than once given the alarm which put Strategic Air Command into the air en route to the target thanks to picking up a moon echo or a flock of geese migrating in formation . |
| 22 | The primary schools of Oxfordshire , with their occasionally romantic commitments to open learning and creativity , more than once felt the lash of his tongue . |
| 23 | Be that as it may , we have more than once witnessed the potential of legspin in limited-overs cricket . |
| 24 | In time of crisis , the United States has more than once confronted the ‘ all or nothing ’ choice of military intervention or abandoning its client . |
| 25 | Another senior police officer who more than once captured the headlines , James Anderton , Chief Constable of Greater Manchester , decrying ‘ the rot that has now taken a firm hold in the fabric of our society ’ , was so moved as to describe crime as Britain 's ‘ Top Growth Industry ’ . |
| 26 | A similar return from the six games left would more than likely put the Victoria Ground on the ‘ First Division ’ map in the truncated Football League next season . |
| 27 | Remove any dry outer leaves , cut off the top third or more and lightly bruise the fleshy base . |
| 28 | She went through as her father bid her : hating , every day more and more hating the show she was , the part she had to take up , the curio she had become , beached on the suffocating shore of the Fish . |
| 29 | In the years after 1369 the king more and more sought the company of his privata familia , a small group of his personal followers , some of whom were suspected , perhaps rightly , of using their position to enrich themselves . |
| 30 | from this then I think that in fact the they would be more and more involved the more sort of radical they 're going |