Example sentences of "become less " in BNC.
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| 1 | have the boiler serviced annually , because like a car it will become less efficient at using fuel after prolonged use . |
| 2 | The American nuclear umbrella over Western Europe would become less certain and the case for the independent British nuclear deterrent was correspondingly strengthened . |
| 3 | Now that access by parents and pupils is the normal rule , these indirect routes will become less important . |
| 4 | In practice the tactical manoeuvring may become less relevant if Westminster Live continues its recent practice of leaving the Chamber after the Prime Minister has finished and switching to studio interviews . |
| 5 | One problem is that once closure is mooted congregations may melt away , services may become less frequent and the will to continue is eroded . |
| 6 | As we approach the third millennium , women will become less materialistic and more spiritual . |
| 7 | They think that the Church would then become less dominated by priests . |
| 8 | Increasing decentralisation ( to Regions or Departments ) of responsibilities is a feature of the present French government 's policies ; in consequence , financial aids in the LFA may well become less uniform than at present . |
| 9 | The possibility that the generalist advice worker would become less valued through an increase in specialists has not been borne out in practice . |
| 10 | Issues of poverty and deprivation will become less important . |
| 11 | The appetite may become less , and there may be vomiting after eating . |
| 12 | But where the political and social values of a country redefine the function of a school , as they have done in Tanzania , or , as with the growth of universal primary education , it becomes more obvious that the school is not mainly an escape route out of the village and on to secondary and higher education , so the separateness may become less pronounced and the desire for integration more genuine . |
| 13 | If they can become less blamed , they will then have resolved something important for themselves . |
| 14 | Given a fixed exchange rate and a UK inflation rate higher than that in the rest of the world , UK exports will become less competitive in world markets while imports will become more attractive to UK buyers . |
| 15 | Partners are also being taught coaching skills to help them become less autocratic . |
| 16 | By providing welfare benefits , recipients may become less reliant on self-help and more dependent on the state , entering what has become known as a dependency culture or benefit culture . |
| 17 | The interesting point , however , is that divisions within the student body would become less significant as conditions for all students deteriorated throughout the reform decade and optimism gave way to despair . |
| 18 | However , with the maturity of the business , these changes will become less noticeable and frequent . |
| 19 | Unfortunately , proposals for change will become less likely as the lessons of the recent attempts to break the mould of Conservative journalism sink in . |
| 20 | As a ‘ failure ’ he/she may then become less capable of succeeding in subsequent tasks . |
| 21 | This argument suggests that support between siblings may become less significant for the ethnic minority British population in the future . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , it is widely recognized that exchange rate adjustments within the EMS will only become less frequent if the economic performance and the economic policies of member countries are converging and consistent . |
| 23 | We may speculate that GPs may become less willing to maintain the very elderly on their lists when they have to provide care within a specified cash-limited budget . |
| 24 | Moreover , as the urban/industrial complex becomes ever more predominant agricultural resentment will become less vocal and the rural sector 's capacity to oppose weaker . |
| 25 | After the relative quiescence of the working class since the late 1840s these new manifestations engendered fears that respectable workers might become less co-operative if their real grievances were not palliated . |
| 26 | On the one hand an opinion within the Southeast Asian Division of the State Department that ‘ the ardent leadership of the small Communist group will become less vital ’ and would be followed by the natural development of political parties . |
| 27 | Scrutiny of policy and legislation would become less exacting ; the government of the day would be less insistently called to account . |
| 28 | Might it become less valid with the mingling of cultures and as the concept of the family continues to change ? |
| 29 | All too easily Soho could become less a way of life than an unbreakable habit . |
| 30 | Within the core enterprises and countries control will become less authoritarian in the workplace as new forms of market discipline substitute for the external surveillance of supervision , changes fostered by extensive deregulation . |