Example sentences of "a [adj] [conj] less [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This I regard as a possible but less natural meaning of the section . |
| 2 | If the presence of the trespasser is known to or reasonably to be anticipated by the occupier , then the occupier has a duty to the trespasser , but it is a lower and less onerous duty than the one which the occupier owes to a lawful visitor . |
| 3 | But a different and less well-known set of problems emerges when attempts are made to examine alternation between standard and non-standard forms . |
| 4 | Before its completion , there was a greater requirement for a lighter and less costly tank . |
| 5 | The new Patents County Court provides , hopefully , a speedier and less expensive way of pursuing smaller claims . |
| 6 | The newspaper argued that the ordinary reader , possessed of a fairer and less suspicious mind , would presume innocence . |
| 7 | A second and less well-known treaty gives the US the right to defend the canal 's neutrality . |
| 8 | The concentration of plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 was significantly higher in malignant ascites ( 736 ( 213–165 ) ng/ml ) than in alcoholic ascites ( 16 ( <2–43 ) ng/ml , p<0.05 ) , and a similar but less pronounced pattern was found for plasminogen activator inhibitor-2 ( 43 ( <6- 140 ) ng ml in malignant ascites v <6 ( <6–28 ) ng/ ml in alcoholic ascites , p<0.05 ) . |
| 9 | A similar but less marked pattern is to be found in other cases of sexual violence . |
| 10 | A similar if less conspicuous story might be told of the Reed conglomerate . |
| 11 | The use of decoys by police officers to aid in the detection of crime is a similar though less analogous form of deception . |
| 12 | THIS makes a pretty and less fiddly alternative to icing on your Christmas cake . |
| 13 | Monnet 's mission was twofold : to improve Giraud 's reactionary image in the Allied press by eliminating the most blatant traces of Vichy rule in North Africa ; and to find a formula for unifying Giraudists and Gaullists in such a way as to absorb de Gaulle 's movement into a larger and less political organization . |
| 14 | Although it might be very easy to steal from a friend or colleague and not get caught most people would feel this to be ‘ wrong ’ , yet such feelings may not exert such a strong influence over decisions as to whether to steal from a larger and less personal victim . |
| 15 | Although they are a larger and less tightly-knit group , this might well also apply to agency secretarial workers . |
| 16 | It is enough to say that , having adopted the character of Oliver Twist , I have been fortunate in meeting with a kindlier and less formidable response than he ; and while anyone who knows the editor 's capabilities must realise that it is not beyond his powers to write a further introduction of the same delight as that preceding Volume II , it would be unreasonable to complain that in his assessment of the situation the needs of prompt publication have been put first . |
| 17 | But an information gap is not necessarily the same as the operation of different schemata , which may be working at a deeper and less accessible level . |
| 18 | I felt that the design for this holiday picture should be a natural and less structured design than normal , so I laid out the pressed stems of eucalyptus which naturally fell into a fan shape and used that as the basis of my design . |
| 19 | " It may be the beginning of a saner and less aggressive course of action than the one hitherto pursued towards the men of the Mercantile Marine . |
| 20 | All too typical , however , was Lord Keith 's remark in 1799 that he had given a lieutenant 's commission to ‘ the Duchess of Atholle 's friend Glen Geary … a heavy dog too ’ , while passing over a brighter but less well-connected midshipman . |
| 21 | The Festival of Britain sought to persuade us of the imminence of a better and less contorted world . |
| 22 | The type of cup commonest at this time is shown in fig. 49 , by a decent but less distinguished painter , whose love of rich colour , red and white , links him to Corinth . |
| 23 | It is interesting that , as the opportunity to paint for a specific exhibition has offered itself , a freer and less tentative approach can be seen both in subject matter and technique . |
| 24 | ‘ To Lawrence , the world is intrinsically a beautiful place , yet we will turn it into filth to get a smaller and less beautiful object out of it . ’ |
| 25 | South America also has a small tree-climbing anteater , which is a close cousin of Myrmecophaga and looks like a miniature and less extreme version of it , and a third , intermediate form . |
| 26 | A fourth and less myopic perspective is one which deals with the functions of a service for the wider welfare system or for society as a whole . |
| 27 | Lerner ( 1944 ) derives the egalitarian recipe in a neat and less restrictive manner . |
| 28 | The breed originated from the Jutland Black Pied , which was known a century ago as a hardier but less productive type of the black pied lowland group and had been bred in Denmark for a very long time . |
| 29 | Then night falls and , by the light of the moon , you can just make out shapes and outlines — the scene is still beautiful but in a calmer and less vibrant way . |
| 30 | It had become quite acceptable for such a man , in his early sixties , to shift his money to safer investments , hand over the family home next to the workplace to his son , and move into a house in the suburbs from which he could maintain a benevolent but less taxing interest in family concerns . |