Example sentences of "more [conj] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet the London we inherited from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is more or less a success . |
| 2 | That particular trip was more or less a carbon copy of the previous one . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Not only might religious education ( and the compulsory school assembly , already more or less a dead letter in many schools ) be abandoned , but the obligation to give sex education or moral instruction might also go by the board . |
| 5 | This design was , as was the Karrier model , based on and more or less a facsimile of the ‘ Wolverton Coupling ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ We had more or less a free hand . |
| 7 | No-one actually said ‘ Piss off ’ to anyone else , or ‘ You 're fired ’ or ‘ You 're hired ’ ; it was more or less a thing where none of us really communicated at all . |
| 8 | The controls , which laid down a minimum deposit for certain goods , restricted the amount of the finance charge which could be made and prohibited finance charges altogether for others , lingered on for a few years afterwards as part of what was still more or less a strictly managed war-time economy . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I am more or less a consultant to them . ’ |
| 11 | … Trouble with going back to the old days , the [ agency ] was more or less a family concern . |
| 12 | I think that the rest of the situation should be more or less a straight across thing , and I 'm gon na see if we can get Paul |
| 13 | And he actually treated me like a , more or less a son , the site agent , and he made sure er I gradually developed my muscles . |
| 14 | It 's er it 's more or less a |
| 15 | I asked in what I hoped was more or less a normal voice . |
| 16 | It 's more or less a third of the marketplace will then be to the right . |
| 17 | You know our our putting up the pistons more or less a which is we had a big of er Tommy would know what I meant and I would know what he meant . |
| 18 | The Education Minister in the AIG , Farooq Azam was reported on July 2 as having resigned claiming that it was " more or less a dead organization " . |
| 19 | There 's no rules in our business , but there 's more or less a convention that we do n't kill each other . |
| 20 | All the models of passive rifting discussed so far assume that rifting is more or less a symmetric process ; that is , we would expect the opposing passive margins formed through continental break-up to have a similar structure and morphology because they have experienced a similar tectonic history . |
| 21 | As I see it , Rocky 's been playing in the wide midfield role ( more or less a direct replacement for Strach ) , with Fairclough playing as a direct replacement for Batty , and Macca and Speed in more central roles . |
| 22 | A Celtic win was more or less a formality . |
| 23 | Erm you may , you may start to believe from what I 've been saying that federalism is a kind of sham , you know that it 's a that really states have lost significance viz a viz the federal government , federal government is now more or less a , a unitary state and runs everything , well that 's not true at all . |
| 24 | In examining colloquial English it is often more or less a matter of arbitrary choice how one transcribes such a word . |
| 25 | No I do n't , but So it 's more or less a threesome if anything at all . |
| 26 | You say you 're an accountant , well a lot of people consider accountants to be tickers , those people who check other people 's facts and figures , and secondly you presented what the County Councillors do as more or less a rubber stamping of what the officers put before them . |
| 27 | He was more or less an alcoholic before he was 20 . |
| 28 | That may seem reasonable , but it 's a lot for Poland , where a million and a half zlotys a month is considered more or less an average wage . |
| 29 | Even if you are more or less an appropriate weight to begin with , you can benefit from exercise to tone the muscles . |
| 30 | ‘ I knew that Alan liked the odd drink but it was n't until we were living together that I realised her was more or less an alcoholic , and violent with it . ’ |