Example sentences of "seem [prep] be [adv] [conj] less " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end it seemed to be more or less common ground that the judge did not formally state his reasons when he made his order , although in the course of argument he had indicated that he had sympathy for the debtor 's argument based on section 69 of the Solicitors Act 1974 . |
| 2 | I could not believe that such an outburst of violence could happen in Fontanellato , where everybody , including those who belonged to the party , seemed to be more or less on good terms with one another , but when I arrived home I begged my father to be careful and to avoid discussions with anybody except the doctor . |
| 3 | It was difficult to see her through the dazzling spurts of fire ; she seemed to be less and less there . |
| 4 | Most of them still seem to be more or less all right , but Fiver and Pipkin will have had as much as they can stand before long . " |
| 5 | But if we look at distant galaxies , there seems to be more or less the same number of them . |
| 6 | 4.6 There is ample further evidence for regarding the second and third elements in such sequences — unlike the others we have seen so far — as jointly equivalent to a clause at the intensional level ; let us consider the four points which follow : First , most or all such phrases accept the insertion of the explicit predicator to be in front of the adjective ( and to be seems to be more or less obligatory when such adjectives are questioned ) ; we have already seen examples ( e.g. ( 35 ) , ( 41 ) ) . |