Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [adv] or " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Foreign investment was more or less prohibited ( it had to contribute to the development of the domestic industry ) . |
| 2 | In the nineteenth century , divorce was more or less impossible except for the very wealthy , initially only through a private Act of parliament . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The discovery was more or less accidental , because Herschel was carrying out a completely different kind of investigation . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | We can see clearly what life was like in Early Minoan Fournou Korifi , because the site was more or less abandoned after that period . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Her rise had always been anticipated and when Mr Major secured the premiership her political career was more or less clinched . |
| 14 | I did n't play again till February by which time the international season was more or less finished . |
| 15 | If she lived in a mill town , the choice was more or less made for her . |
| 16 | The door was more or less permanently wedged open , and Rennie Hamilton could hear the abrupt gush as the sulphite was emptied away . |
| 17 | Not all this legislation was quickly or completely put into force . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Marslen-Wilson ( 1975 ) found that fluent restorations occurred far more often during the shadowing of normal prose than when the mispronounced word was semantically or syntactically incongruent with respect to the sentence containing it . |
| 22 | But in fact , when comparative levels of spending per head of population were studied by the regional treasurer , it was found that NETRHA spending was more or less right . |
| 23 | To effect the separation it was needful that the particle size was more or less the same . |
| 24 | A Celtic win was more or less a formality . |
| 25 | They had lost all sense of time and did not know how long their night had lasted , whether dawn was near or far . |
| 26 | If my attempt at writing this book was solely or even largely done with public approval in mind , then my ‘ haven ’ image becomes an illusion . |
| 27 | If granted , taxation is carried out on the ‘ indemnity basis ’ but it is presumed that the costs ( a ) have been reasonably incurred , if they were incurred with the express or implied approval of the client ; ( b ) have been reasonable in amount , if their amount was expressly or impliedly approved by the client ; ( c ) have been unreasonably incurred , if in the circumstances of the case they are of an unusual nature , unless the solicitor satisfies the taxing officer that prior to their being incurred the client was informed that they might not be allowed on taxation of costs . |
| 28 | Mrs Pember Reeves was ambivalent on the issue , commenting that it depended largely on whether the accommodation was above or below ground and on the absolute minimum that was allowed for food . |
| 29 | LIM memory was more or less invented just for use with spreadsheets — the only memory hungry applications of the era . |
| 30 | Ellen was adamantly opposed to the first two and a noisy supporter of the last two , while my position was more or less the opposite . |