Example sentences of "[noun] was [adv] or " in BNC.
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| 1 | Foreign investment was more or less prohibited ( it had to contribute to the development of the domestic industry ) . |
| 2 | er when Pearl , my other daughter came over Christmas , course Andrea was more or less still going through a bit of a rough period with between her grandfather and her , you know ? |
| 3 | And Lucy was blithely or otherwise ignoring that fact . |
| 4 | A pattern emerged whereby shipping belonging to or destined for Kuwait was more or less assured of Iranian attention . |
| 5 | In the nineteenth century , divorce was more or less impossible except for the very wealthy , initially only through a private Act of parliament . |
| 6 | Now ten years old , Ellie was more or less expected to run the house day by day . |
| 7 | Highgate Cemetery was more or less on his way to the theatre , and although it was almost all old graves without flowers , he had seen some being left regularly by some nutty Communist at the grave of Karl Marx . |
| 8 | The discovery was more or less accidental , because Herschel was carrying out a completely different kind of investigation . |
| 9 | In the context of a business sale an employee will be redundant if his dismissal was wholly or mainly attributable either to the change in location of the business or to the fact that fewer employees are now required for the business . |
| 10 | At the top end the bourgeoisie was more or less distinct from the aristocracy ( high or low ) , depending partly on the legal and social exclusiveness of that group or on its own class-consciousness . |
| 11 | The position of the Spice Islands was more or less well known . |
| 12 | He had come from out of town with a fortune , was known to have been a vociferous Bund supporter before the war and had set up a chain of more or less above-board casinos in the districts where gambling was more or less legal . |
| 13 | There is obviously a great buzz in live performance , and live work during this period was more or less just a lengthy summer tour with Andy Gibb in America . |
| 14 | So perhaps Kinsey was more or less right after all . |
| 15 | We can see clearly what life was like in Early Minoan Fournou Korifi , because the site was more or less abandoned after that period . |
| 16 | It would not matter whether the consent was expressly or impliedly given , i.e. there is no theft from a company when it has consented to the taking . |
| 17 | Gas and oil pipelines were already being laid and the first oil and gas field at Eckofisk was more or less ready to come on stream at that time . |
| 18 | The first street in Funchal was more or less the present Rua Santa Maria , and the flat area of beach was where the Largo do Corpo Santo is now . |
| 19 | In 192 ( 71 per cent ) cases , DNs were solely responsible for current treatment ; in a further 26 ( 10 per cent ) , they had made joint treatment decisions with the GP and/or consultant , so the DN was wholly or partly responsible for 81 per cent of treatment decisions : Table 3 lists DN responses . |
| 20 | Stubbly was more or less on cue . |
| 21 | The putatively modern new business district was more or less haphazardly established along the Leipziger Strasse , just a bit west of the old city centre . |
| 22 | Her rise had always been anticipated and when Mr Major secured the premiership her political career was more or less clinched . |
| 23 | I did n't play again till February by which time the international season was more or less finished . |
| 24 | If she lived in a mill town , the choice was more or less made for her . |
| 25 | The door was more or less permanently wedged open , and Rennie Hamilton could hear the abrupt gush as the sulphite was emptied away . |
| 26 | De Quincey was more or less in hiding from Edinburgh people to whom he owed large sums of money , so Glasgow , a thriving and blackening metropolis of 365 , 000 souls , was the ideal place in which to eat your opium and keep your head down . |
| 27 | Not all this legislation was quickly or completely put into force . |
| 28 | Despite ritualistic genuflections from time to time towards the value of local democracy , it was assumed that the purpose of local government was more or less consensually agreed to be the local delivery of a set of services enshrined in centrally determined statutes . |
| 29 | So popular government was more or less firmly established from 461 BC until it was finally swept away by the Macedonian conquerors in 322 BC , to be replaced by the kind of restricted franchise which its opponents had always preferred . |
| 30 | Perhaps he guessed as much : certainly he seems to have been surprised by the success of the play.s But that success was more or less assured : his reputation and authority were such that those who went to the theatre went , as a matter of course , to see Eliot . |