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Example sentences of "[vb infin] a less [adj] " in BNC.

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1	Khruschev 's successors , Leonid Brezhnev and Alexei Kosygin , could not heal the Sino-Soviet breach , but they did pursue a less erratic foreign policy , preferring to build up Russia 's nuclear arsenal ( whose inferiority the Cuban crisis had demonstrated ) rather than to bluster , rage and threaten the West .
2	Probably Sukarno 's renunciation of non-cooperation did ensure a less severe fate for him .
3	If you are also thinking of replacing your heating system , having better standards of insulation may also mean that you can specify a less powerful ( and less expensive ) boiler .
4	Despite his reputation as a political bruiser , in social policy Mr Clarke is a lot ‘ wetter ’ than his erstwhile rival for the chancellorship , Michael Howard , who may bring a less breezy touch , as new home secretary , to matters of law and order .
5	Families of people with a learning disability might welcome a less intense form of case management than that offered to single male schizophrenia sufferers who have a long history of compulsory admission to hospital .
6	Opting out into private education , or moving into the catchment area with the best state schools , would become a less important past-time .
7	Councillors had told them they could no longer use a less isolated car park next to the council offices , but now look certain to reverse their decision tomorrow .
8	Port Glasgow and Leith , the main centres of trade , were the ports with the best-paid officers , but equally , they would also require the greatest amount of work from the incumbents , who would be much more under the eye of the supervisory staff based at Edinburgh , which might well make a less well-paid , but remote , port more attractive to the more independent officers .
9	They should make a less detailed study of the other .
10	If you would prefer a less tangy-flavoured dipping sauce to serve with the Fruit kebabs , do n't despair .
11	There is also some evidence , but very limited indeed , that girls may prefer a less competitive and more collaborative style of working , so that classrooms which are resource based and organised for group working tend to be classrooms where girls thrive .
12	Soviet officials were gratified by the reaction of the radical Arab states to their plan for the Persian Gulf but they could anticipate a less forthcoming response from the conservative Gulf states .
13	As the family grew up the wife could take a less active part in the farm work especially when the son left school but occasionally they found it difficult to settle back into a domestic routine .
14	In Example 36 movement is maintained not only rhythmically , but also by harmonic changes which justify the rhythmic designs ; these would otherwise have a less constructive significance ( see next page ) .
15	As to the effects of the prohibitions contained in the 1950 Act , the European Court held that this turned on the issue of –proportionality' — i.e. if the aim of the Sunday trading prohibition could be achieved by other means which would have a less serious effect on the free flow of goods , then the law would contravene Article 30 of the Treaty of Rome .
16	Er I do n't know shorthand but I thought y somebody who did know shorthand would probably have a less hard time than I do writing down notes .
17	Let us suppose a less hurried traveller who is flying to Bali with the intention of staying who wants the life he expects in Bali not for some business or educational purpose but for its own sake , as his vision of the Good Life .
18	Although deregulation in the markets for products , services and labour has brought benefits in the form of more choice and lower prices , the liberalisation of financial markets may leave a less happy legacy .
19	The ‘ new world order ’ , whatever it is , will require a less clumsy and more cost- effective defence .
20	But does this make it play a less significant role in overcoming his problem ?
21	If the reason girls achieve less than boys is because of remediable educational or social conditions which disadvantage them , then it is clearly unjust that girls should get a less fair deal than boys .
22	Unless you want to intimidate the people you are seeing ( and you will get a less truthful picture of them if you do ) then consider conducting the interview in two fairly comfortable chairs placed at angles next to each other .
23	He concluded with a promise that before the next session he would obtain a less expensive plan probably providing accommodation for the Foreign Colonial and India Offices , and although reception rooms should be included , the residence could be omitted .
24	The formation of a Labour-led Israeli government under Prime Minister Itzhak Rabin was seen as improving the prospects for progress in the Middle East peace process , with the expectation that the new government would adopt a less intransigent stance than its predecessor over Jewish settlement in the occupied territories .
25	Now that exclusion clauses are subject to statutory control under the UCTA 1977 , and the court generally has power to deny reliance on unreasonable clauses , it has been said that " any need for this kind of judicial distortion of the English language has been banished " ( Lord Diplock in Photo Production Ltd v Securicor Transport Ltd [ 1980 ] AC 827 ; see also Ailsa Craig Fishing Co Ltd v Malvern Fishing Ltd [ 1983 ] 1 WLR 964 ; Geo Mitchell ( Chesterhall ) Ltd v Finney Lock Seeds Ltd [ 1983 ] 2 AC 803 ) , and it may be that the courts will adopt a less restrictive approach to exclusions .
26	She was able to take analgesia orally and once her pain was controlled , she became more willing to move and adopt a less tense position .
27	Another way of doing this kind of analysis is to treat long vowels and diphthongs as composed of a vowel plus a consonant ; this may seem a less obvious way of proceeding , but it was for many years the choice of most American phonologists .
28	Enteral administration of adosrbents , if effective in inflammatory bowel disease , would represent a less invasive and a safer form of therapy than those previously used .
29	I think it should be remembered that that public support actually was against a requirement of one thousand nine hundred dwellings , which is not quite the proposal being put forward by the County at the moment , but it is clear that there seems to me n not to be any public or great strength of public objection to the sort of proposals that are now before you in this enquiry , and it also seems to me that the reasons behind erm that that public support are essentially because it meets the first requirement of paragraph P P G thirty three , that the alternative expansion of existing towns or villages will represent a less satisfactory method of providing land for new housing that is needed , I think that is the essence of the public support , and so first of I think you can say that that 's that means that first criteria , and certainly it seems to meet the second automatically because it an expression of public preference .
30	Hambledon District Council believes that insufficient regard has been payed erm to these issues erm in the structure plan alteration , in paragraph thirty three the P P G sets down a list of criteria erm to which local authorities er should refer erm , I 'll erm refer specifically to er to three of them and I and and comeback to them as I go through erm erm what I want to say , erm the first one I draw that I would draw the panel 's attention to is erm that the alternative of the expansion of existing towns or villages should represent a less satisfactory method at providing the land for housing that is needed , and it 's a rhetorical question really here , erm and w we would ask that erm if there has n't been a comparative appraisal erm of the two options , and how could there be , there 's no erm district or areas been identified , how can we be certain that one option is better than another under the terms of that er criterion , erm the oth second point we would draw the panel 's attention is that the proposal is a clear expression of local preference supported by the local planning authorities , and again I would emphasize there that Hambledon District Council objects , and the third one is the option of a new settlement in preference to the alternative would result in positive environmental improvements , and I 'll return to that erm briefly in relation to er to Hambledon , P P G twelve erm paragraph six one four that 's been referred to it , includes a check list of issues against which areas in for new development in general er need to be er considered , with particular reference for reducing the need for travel , erm amongst these issues that the P P G asked the Councils to take into account erm are that development should make full and effective use of land within existing urban areas , that developments er should consider development patterns that are closely related to public transport net networks , and in relation to housing , and that housing is located in such a way as to minimize car use for journeys to work , school , and other local facilities , P P G thirteen , and I would expect erm I would agree with what Mr Donson has said here , is that it it 's draft and obviously one has to put the appropriate weight on it , but erm this reinforces and expands upon erm established government policy , reducing the need for travel , erm I do n't think it 's necessary for me to go into er the quotes in detail , I think that those have been er been touched on , erm , however , I would say erm that Hambledon District Council believes that the advice in draft P P G thirteen is much less supportive of new settlements , it suggests that greater weight must be given to the environmental implications of the additional traffic generated by new settlements erm this is , erm we believe , particularly important in view of the fact that a new settlement for York is unlikely to be self contained , and by its nature many of the residents will still look to York for essential services , social links , and employment , turning to the residual requirement , erm we have a concern over this , erm clearly a new settlement is intended to mop up any residual requirement which the er policy sets at fourteen hundred dwellings , we 've heard evidence from York today that er the city can accommodate erm more erm houses than was originally envisaged , which brings the residual requirement to erm about the minimum size specified by the County Council as being erm about the right level erm to make a s a new settlement self supporting , however , we would point out that there is still the possibility of erm further peripheral development around York , the greenbelt local plan and Southern Ryedale local plan er have not yet been statutory adopted , the inspector has n't reported on those , we do n't know what he 's going to say about sites er which were at issue , or on the need for flexibility between the inner erm boundary of the greenbelt and the city , irrespective of course of what the inspector says , erm being not yet statutory adopted the County and Ryedale will still have the opportunity to consider , reconsider there policies there , but putting that aside for the present , erm even if it is established that er the requirement for nine thousand seven hundred houses erm ca n't a occupied by er can be accommodated by er peripheral development , erm this does n't it does n't necessarily follow that the answer has to be a new settlement , we heard yesterday in erm great detail that erm environmental considerations have justified a reduction in the rate of development in other districts , erm in the county , I would point out that a relatively modest reduction erm in the inward migration to Ryedale , Selby , and York , could mop up the residual requirement , if one looks at erm the reasons for the greenbelt it is perhaps surprising that given the importance attached to maintaining its historic form and character that this is not an issue erm that 's been considered .