Example sentences of "more [conj] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now that the Press releases have all been dispatched , the publicity details more or less finalised , I see no reason why I should not put you out of your misery , allay those nasty suspicious thoughts of yours ! ’ |
| 2 | While H.261 and JPEG standards are both more or less finalised , the MPEG standard is still under discussion . |
| 3 | They took to the path with gusto , he finding the line somewhere between the nearside bank and the middle ridge , while the other more or less followed in the wake , content to orchestrate himself around the camera with his umbrella . |
| 4 | Instead of retreating instead of going underground instead of accepting that the situation had become extremely difficult and it was necessary to try and rebuild their organization and their influence gradually over a period of time , they committed their shattered forces to further battles and more or less completed er their destruction . |
| 5 | But I think they 've more or less given up the ghost . |
| 6 | I 'm thinking actually of here in the university itself , we 've got three different groups in those areas that are now collaborating , and I think we 've got a good chance of _ especially in the area of schools curricula — but also in the area , I think , of helping business people , and I 'm thinking now of senior management , who might be your and my age , Brian , for whom computers did n't exist when we went through university or college , erm who 've probably more or less given up any hope of understanding it and understanding the computer boffins who have taken over — almost taken over the company at times , one suspects . |
| 7 | Since the Scotts , like so many other Borderers , more or less lived by making raids into the North of England in search of cattle , women and other benefits , Rankilburn was entirely in favour . |
| 8 | Moreover , the use by the courts of these common law devices of obstruction , breach of the peace and nuisance is difficult to legislate against as the essential purpose ( which before the 1960s had been more or less achieved with police co-operation ) is to permit ‘ reasonable ’ picketing , including the right to accost for a short period within which arguments can be advanced , without putting persons in fear or to immoderate inconvenience . |
| 9 | All of these problems were more or less overcome by ingenious chemical manipulation , so that a very wide range of semi-synthetic penicillins have become available . |
| 10 | Her rise had always been anticipated and when Mr Major secured the premiership her political career was more or less clinched . |
| 11 | In the first case , the organizing principle goes under such terms as ‘ manipulation ’ and ‘ standardization ’ , and ‘ popular ’ is more or less equated with ‘ mass ’ or ‘ commercial ’ . |
| 12 | And and the three individuals who I worked with particularly , they 'd all been more or less written off , and they all come through with distinctions . |
| 13 | Neighbours are more or less ignored . |
| 14 | Neath , the leading Welsh club side of the moment , were more or less ignored because although their forwards could get around better than anyone else 's there would not have been much point if they could not win the ball in the first place . |
| 15 | The conflict between Chilperic and his half-brothers began on the death of their father Chlothar I. More interestingly , Merovech 's bid for power followed his uncle 's murder ; similarly Gundovald , who had been more or less ignored when he first returned to Gaul in 582 , became a plausible candidate for the throne when Chilperic was killed . |
| 16 | All of these were more or less subsumed under the rubric of the developed ( advanced industrial ) societies and the developing ( usually a euphemism for undeveloped or , more radically , underdeveloped ) societies . |
| 17 | Economists , for example , often work with theories which stipulate that human economic behaviour is motivated by rationality , more or less conceived as the maximisation of means to ends . |
| 18 | Overlap in a given situation is more or less tolerated in some societies than in others . |
| 19 | ( One possible exception to this was Mexico , where the Communists were more or less tolerated until they made a misjudged and Comintern-inspired attempt to exploit an abortive right-wing coup against the portes Gil government in 1929 — see pages 39–40 . |
| 20 | Last week , when he had left Joe Hyde in the bookshop , he had more or less made up his mind not to attend the meeting of the Irish sympathizers planned for this night . |
| 21 | If she lived in a mill town , the choice was more or less made for her . |
| 22 | Then John had more or less made fun of him . |
| 23 | in all honesty ans answer what he said , you more or less made a statement and said yes I am er but I , I know all about the products and I 'll give you best advice . |
| 24 | The era of the great train-shed more or less ended with the Great War . |
| 25 | I 've more or less lost that sense of being with Arthur . |
| 26 | But er course we n n never got any money because we er m it more or less disbanded the Notts miners ' union that did , it er it took everything away was That was when we were er er s the Spencer union was formed more or less by the management . |
| 27 | They wiped out the buffalo , more or less wiped out the Indians and , eventually , were driven away themselves by loneliness , extreme weather , drought , and the loss of topsoil brought on by over-farming . |
| 28 | He was more or less paid to go away and keep his head down , was n't he . |
| 29 | The bungalow had been more or less cancelled out by mother 's renovations . |
| 30 | He stayed at Dunvegan for eight nights , from Monday , 13 September , to the morning of Tuesday the 21st , and may even have outstayed his welcome ; Johnson more or less refused to leave the comfort of the castle and applauded the weather 's inclemency which kept him and his companions pinned down . |