Example sentences of "the less [adj] [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And as we " progress " towards the twenty-first century we are rapidly consuming all the stores of energy that are easily consumed and thus becoming more and more reliant on the less accessible stores of energy . |
| 2 | Our sample appears to confirm that collective bargaining practice has followed the initial approach of union policy in giving little weight to the less quantifiable changes in working conditions from application of new technology and systems , especially in job design and its effects on the quality of working life . |
| 3 | The advantages of this job include a lucrative salary , a nice office in Paris and unlimited opportunities to watch the agency 's Ariane rocket take off ( or , as happens more often , crash to the ground ) from Guyana one of the less pleasant parts of South America . |
| 4 | The latter were more concerned with the tangible and apparently more readily eradicable physical conditions which they believed influenced behaviour than with the less tangible effects of infant emotional experience or of inheritance . |
| 5 | But the less tangible demands of neighbourliness might be less easily shrugged away . |
| 6 | The increases were lowest in the most serious forms of violent offences , and highest in the less serious offences of violence and in robbery . |
| 7 | The annual Industrial Conference provides valuable insights into the world of business , and the Community Service Programme helps the less fortunate members of society . |
| 8 | None the less diffuse benefits from conservation accruing over a long-time horizon and targeted very widely among the rural population are poor candidates for adoption and funding . |
| 9 | One of the less direct influences of miscue analysis , therefore , is that " listening to reading " becomes a shared enterprise rather than an asymmetrical tester-testee situation . |
| 10 | Accordingly , the danger with floating exchange rates is that the less formal arrangements for cooperation may foster insufficient inter national cooperation of policies for the alleviation of sustained economic recessions or containment of inflationary pressures . |
| 11 | The present study therefore does show that studies of publications , citations and consultations can produce results which are comparable with the less formal techniques of peer review . |
| 12 | It is difficult not to agree with Nossal that such wastefulness is inherent in any system where consumer pressures predominate and is one of the less happy faces of market economics . |
| 13 | People maintained family hierarchy in the teeth of socio-economic differentiation , and they subordinated status distinctions beyond the threshold to the less flexible ones of family and marriage . |
| 14 | As in many of the less obvious aspects of dog training , care over details such as this will help to ensure that there is no adverse reaction on the part of the dog . |
| 15 | A delightfully frank account of its development shows some of the less scientific problems of discovery . |
| 16 | The Times was highly critical of what it called ‘ these usurious companies ’ , but their creation was a genuine attempt by the government of the day to provide the less privileged members of society with a state money-lender which hopefully they would find more trustworthy than the neighbourhood pawnbroker ; and presumably each society 's secretary was able to provide some kind of money management advice to those who needed it . |
| 17 | We also need to be cautious before asserting that the Tories became a populist party , in the sense of championing the interests of the less privileged classes within society . |
| 18 | Another way of extending everyone 's view of a school and of diminishing the opposition to change within it , is to acknowledge one of the less fashionable aspects of management and to make a virtue of it . |
| 19 | The negative effects , however , were the less welcome members of society coming and going quite freely . |
| 20 | Looking around at the suffocating power of the Roman Catholic Church and the less humane churches of Protestantism , he found that he had nowhere else to go ; they had no answers for this situation either . |
| 21 | A stylist was , in the end , dutifully sent on the mission but the situation was an alarming indication of Morrissey 's inability to cope with the less enjoyable aspects of fame . |
| 22 | ‘ I see , ’ he said after a moment 's pause , ‘ order and elegance , bright colour , restraint , a conquering and a moulding of the less desirable aspects of nature . |
| 23 | The evidence for genetic inheritance is much less strong for the less severe forms of depression . |
| 24 | A symbol of the less controllable results of technology , the Holme Post , a cast-iron column believed by some to have come from the Crystal Palace , was sunk into the ground near Whittlesey , to measure peat shrinkage . |