Example sentences of "more [conj] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now that applies to any matter arising , and subsequently I think that er the Donovan Report more or less reinforced er that particular er er procedure , although it had been written into our national agreement er as far back as I can remember . |
| 2 | ‘ The point is , ’ said Dyson , ‘ I do n't feel one can go on just doing the general odds and sods indefinitely without more or less destroying oneself . |
| 3 | I think that 's what more or less decided Geoff that , yeah , he would take it . |
| 4 | When the village was almost entirely an agricultural community then a case can be made , as we shall see , that the close-knit and overlapping social ties produced a situation in which everyone more or less knew everyone else , but we should be wary of sanctifying the agricultural village with a misplaced nostalgia . |
| 5 | It 's possible to trace George Michael back to the colourmotion , the white funk irony that more or less began with ABC and spawned a straight , bleached-out generation of Howard Jones and ( eventually ) the Hues , Wets , Styles and Curiositys ad nauseam . |
| 6 | Most of the 16-year-olds say their fathers have more or less told them to ‘ go out and have a good time ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ Rivalry within the PDPA is a phenomenon that more or less belongs to the past , ’ he said . |
| 8 | He said about a , a free gift as the first thing and then he said about made enquiries of others which I thought was almost er er a , a way there of saying well , you know , oth other people more or less recommend Friends Provident . |
| 9 | By then , rigor mortis was progressing , but Noakes had got her more or less straightened out . |
| 10 | Many sociologists have addressed the relationship between ideas or beliefs and social structure and process but I shall not attempt to consider theories that more or less imply a sociology of knowledge perspective . |
| 11 | I 'll be telling most some of the tales about that time , and then the other tales will be about what happened to me in sixty nine when I started up , because the changing legislation s more or less said that if you had a vehicle of thirty hundredweight or less you could move an er wh whoever 's furniture you liked anywhere you wanted to . |
| 12 | Distinguished from all other true geese by having its whole face white , with crown , nape and neck black ; rest of plumage mainly grey more or less barred black and white . |
| 13 | The teacher , too , as a fonctionnaire or civil servant , also has authority , which as well as the requirement to deliver to pupils something more or less resembling the words in the programme , includes also the authority to interpret , modify , supplement and extend . |
| 14 | The Treasury were very , very skilled chaps in more or less stopping you doing anything . |
| 15 | When he came along erm was about he was more or less asked what terms he wanted and said that he was no to show no favouritism . |
| 16 | Like the HMIs , I have more or less avoided this question so far , mainly by talking about ‘ curriculum managers ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ Once you 've got that basic drawing of a person sitting sideways on a chair , if you draw straight lines around him you 've more or less got a pyramid shape . |
| 18 | There Engels more or less tells us that the scheme presented is not likely to be changed by new discoveries . |
| 19 | Romero had in mind a much more ambitious script in which the zombies have more or less taken over , except in an island enclave where soldiers have trained them into an army and scientists are devising ways of using them as slaves . |
| 20 | She lived in one of those streets running from the Old Brompton Road more or less parallel with the edge of Brompton Cemetery , a territory that seems more or less taken over by typists ' collectives , where groups of girls band together to share flats whose rents none of them could afford individually . |
| 21 | The Footsie 100 Index of the Top 100 shares has more or less stood still this year . |
| 22 | Interestingly , the date of the earliest document signed by Hocazade — mid-Shawwal 877 — more or less coincides with that of a recording that on 23 Shawwal 877/23 March 1473 Efdalzade had been appointed to the Sahn in place of Ali Kuscu who , Uzuncarsili says , had been transferred to the muderrislik of the Ayasofya medrese , one of the posts which Molla Husrev had held in conjunction with the kadilik of Istanbul . |
| 23 | That is the area which has been used for the last five or six years as the basis of the And that outer boundary more or less coincides with the outer boundary erm of the York greenbelt . |
| 24 | Arsenal became the subject of more ill-considered criticism than any other club , a fate which has more or less persisted . |
| 25 | Particularly where you 've more or less got the idea of it but you think you just want to sort of tidy up a few details an |
| 26 | I think I will cos I 'm pissed off , I tell you what , I mean I think , you 've been alright throughout your school more or less have n't ya ? |
| 27 | Everybody has More or less has a paper It 's not like the Scotsman or the News , as regards numbers , but then you 've got all the local news and you got all the local advertisements . |
| 28 | Nor did he see another consequence , as his nephew Mauss confessed , shortly before going mad : ‘ how large modern societies which have more or less emerged from the Middle Ages in other respects , could be hypnotized as aborigines are by their dances and set in motion like a child 's carousel . |
| 29 | No one is saying it is fair , but the system has more or less worked over the years . |
| 30 | The swimming section was more or less brought back to mind to me the other day when they showed the old Stoke bathing place . |