Example sentences of "less [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the early days of sociology , that is , in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century , there was much less professional specialization of the two disciplines of sociology and psychology . |
| 2 | Even poetry would not address such matters except in the more or less orthodox , more or less devotional form of Paradise Lost . |
| 3 | At the same time , under the general conditions of this best-known of all forms of patronage , certain less specific forms of professional organization in the arts were often present , at a different stage : evidently in the master and apprentice system which was at times similar to that in a wider area of skills and crafts ( see pages 58ff below ) . |
| 4 | Advertising objectives are more or less specific statements of what is to be achieved by advertising , in terms of ( for example ) increased awareness , or improved scores on certain attitude scales . |
| 5 | It also disturbs me that such a lucrative and plentiful outside demand will distract our house-builders from meeting the more important and yet less profitable needs of the existing population and from ensuring the provision of genuinely ‘ affordable housing ’ . |
| 6 | The fact that urban areas were hit early and particularly hard by this loss is then explained by conditions which operate within this broader context : for example , that cities tended to have the older and thus often less profitable parts of individual industries ; or that they suffered from decentralization to cheaper and less organized workers . |
| 7 | Although they are a standard device in parliamentary elections in most of the democracies of continental Europe , they are an abomination for the evangelists of the STV and sometimes a stumbling block for less prejudiced supporters of electoral reform . |
| 8 | The four Union Republics which provide 80 per cent of the work force ( RSFSR , Ukraine , Latvia and Estonia ) face sharply declining birthrates relative to the less advanced populations of the USSR . |
| 9 | The terms under which the EIB was formed prescribe that the purpose of finance provided shall be to support : projects aiding development of less advanced regions of the Community ; modernization and conversion projects in essentially declining areas ; and projects , usually large , which are of interest to several member countries or the Community as a whole . |
| 10 | The English makers thus became marginalized in the less prestigious field of spinet production ( in which , of course , they had always been active ) and their distinctive style of workmanship was perpetuated , without any obvious concessions to the Tabel tradition , by makers such as John Hitchcock , who was still active in the mid-1760s . |
| 11 | Lean and the Boultings drifted towards less intense forms of filmmaking , and the concerns evident in their early 1950s pictures were pushed out to less prestigious areas of film production . |
| 12 | For one of the less contemptuous discussions of Skinner 's behavourism , see Dennett ( 1978 , ch. 5 ) . |
| 13 | The movements here are more complex , there is a less complete frontality of presentment and symmetry of design . |
| 14 | The more or less complete independence of corporate managers from their shareholders enables managers to pursue goals other than those of profit-maximization in the interests of the shareholders . |
| 15 | The function of the areas is to achieve more or less complete coverage of popular and standards works for their zone . |
| 16 | The fact is , Karajan was able to accommodate and support voices , even in the most taxing roles , in a way that other conductors with a less complete control of the orchestra find it hard to emulate . |
| 17 | The element of time is a chief cause of those difficulties in economic investigations which make it necessary for man with his limited powers to go step by step ; breaking up a complex question , studying one bit at a time , and at last combining his partial solutions into a more or less complete solution of the whole riddle . |
| 18 | Certainly , we might be justified in assuming that whatever kind of superego a person had it might have some controlling , drive-inhibiting aspects , and consequently that anarchy , which is equivalent to a more or less complete absence of controls , is an unlikely outcome . |
| 19 | He had more or less sole charge of the twenty-seven boys in the boarding section . |
| 20 | Many workers were also worried that the community care proposals would lead to de-skilling , partly because of the increased use of non-professional helpers and partly because care packages would concentrate on practical help with a lower value being placed on the less quantifiable aspects of social work support . |
| 21 | One of the less endearing habits of the time , was to remove the head of the principal adversary , and carry it back to their castle , as a grisly trophy of war . |
| 22 | More conventional , but no less striking mixture of reds and whites |
| 23 | The outcome of this is that the more or less intact skin of the prey animal is turned inside out , forming a tube with the fur on the inside and inner surface of the skin , stripped of all its flesh , on the outside . |
| 24 | I did a similar thing once , although from the less salubrious surroundings of Manchester , so felt an instant rapport . |
| 25 | While he did n't envy Frobisher his job , William Bird could cope well enough with the less salubrious demands of his own . |
| 26 | They find that the less stable isomers of the larger clusters , for example , heated by collisions with the inert gas , collapse and rearrange themselves into more stable fullerene shells . |
| 27 | Women tend to earn less than their male counterparts ( women 's wages were 73.5 per cent of men 's in 1979 ) , and to be in less stable areas of employment and more frequently in part-time work than men ( Bruegel , 1980 ) . |
| 28 | However , with the comparatively recent revolution in geological views on the matter , and the promulgation of the theories of plate tectonics and seafloor spreading ( Ollier , 1981 ) , ocean basins seem to have become some of the less stable features of the earth 's crust . |
| 29 | Indeed , the differences enshrined here seem to be responsible for the development of scenic , figural representation in the east and a less unified form of figural representation in the west . |
| 30 | That er they were all more or less that kind of band . |