Example sentences of "is more or " in BNC.
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| 1 | If towing is permitted with only a wing-tip man , it is vital that the pilots all recognise that this is only safe if the ground is more or less level and the wind is very light . |
| 2 | Yet the London we inherited from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is more or less a success . |
| 3 | Labour 's ‘ radical ’ plans are to be welcomed for the vision they bring of the kind of urban public transport that is more or less taken for granted in western Europe . |
| 4 | Borrowing from the public is more or less finished , perhaps it is finished for our lifetime , but at any rate it has been finished for the last ten years or so ; you may get in a bit one year but you lose it again the next year . |
| 5 | Between disquisitions on Chinese opera and Venetian architecture , the story of Marco Polo 's voyage from Venice to Peking is more or less retold , though the narrative is continually being brought to a halt in moments when it half-realises that it does not mean enough . |
| 6 | So far , China is more or less on course . |
| 7 | One is that the equity market , whether for warrants issues or straight equity , is more or less closed . |
| 8 | In my films the conductor is more or less in one position throughout . |
| 9 | Elaborate social organization with co-operation tends to evolve in species attempting to reproduce under conditions where the carrying capacity of the environment is more or less filled . |
| 10 | The constant is Elymus farctus ( Agropyron junceiforme ) while Ammophila arenaria is more or less absent . |
| 11 | That means it was for use in climates and countries so benign that the natives require no shelter at all , and where a tent is more or less a decorative affectation . |
| 12 | If the explosive activity is more or less continuous , then clearly ash will rise continuously . |
| 13 | I watch intently for a half-hour , seeing how often the chub move out of the darkness and into the light , and that the time spent there is more or less the same on each occasion . |
| 14 | Here , we need to distinguish the sort of information management that is more or less synonymous with the overall management of a firm 's information technology ( IT ) -based resources from that which has a wider remit . |
| 15 | But whereas TMTSF is more or less planar , in BEDT-TTF methylene groups ( CH 2 ) at the ends of the molecule lie out of the main plane . |
| 16 | You do n't have to be a member to play — visitors are welcome , and in the week the course is more or less deserted . |
| 17 | It 's fascinating and deals with attitude and mind control , using a technique called ‘ visualisation ’ which is more or less what I have been doing with my Knights . |
| 18 | The man whose own animals are missing when wanted has , in his turn , to ‘ hire' ’ , and so there is a continuous round of misappropriation , to which the whole community is more or less privy . ’ |
| 19 | This involves the acquisition of goal-oriented behaviour which is more or less formulaic in character and whose capacity for accommodation to novelty is , therefore , very limited . |
| 20 | It is simply that the type is more or less stable , established by convention , whereas the token is not since it is conditioned by context . |
| 21 | In general , most people reckon that the cost of credit they have been using is more or less as they had planned . |
| 22 | That is more or less what he has to say . |
| 23 | Giving in , or submissive behaviour , is more or less the opposite side of the coin to aggressive behaviour . |
| 24 | If this is more or less true , then the strength of any solid should lie between E /10 and E /5 . |
| 25 | Unfortunately , as we have already said , casein is more or less a mixture of cheese and lime and under prolonged moist conditions casein behaves very like cheese . |
| 26 | It then becomes impossible to rank societies as more or less aggressive than one another , just as it is impossible to say that one society is more or less evil than another . |
| 27 | The immense , landless mass of Pacific water is more or less as it always has been . |
| 28 | What Tumbleweed are doing is more or less just putting the two approaches together . |
| 29 | ‘ Hippy ’ on the flip is more or less the same song with the addition of a fuzzbox . |
| 30 | And gentility is a belief that life is always more or less orderly , people always more or less polite , their emotions and habits more or less decent and more or less controllable ; that God , in short , is more or less good , |