Example sentences of "less [adj] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peel-off masks are more gentle but less cleansing than clay . |
| 2 | Copper in contrast was not durable enough for big editions , and where its effects were desired it was increasingly replaced by steel ; but this was much less used than wood for works of science . |
| 3 | We may say , then , that line A is less precise , less specific than line B. Line A is not swallowed up in line B , however ; it is not the case that once we have line B we can dispense with line A. Rather , line B provides the clue or the context within which the uncertainty of line A is resolved . |
| 4 | Naturally this crisp geometrical profile becomes softened and less perceptible as scoria cones grow older and are subjected to the normal processes of erosion . |
| 5 | Gel is less sticky than mousse and works better with curly hair . |
| 6 | But they forget they are less agile and machinery has changed since they last worked , and they get caught out . ’ |
| 7 | Although VAT is slightly progressive , it is less progressive than income tax . |
| 8 | Shoemaker asserts that Tunguska-like explosions should be a common fate of small bolides entering the terrestrial atmosphere , provided only that they are less strong than iron objects . |
| 9 | Sleep taken during the day is less refreshing because body hormones triggered by daylight , which aid activity , are fighting against another type of hormone stimulated by sleep itself which aids rest and body repair . |
| 10 | definitely less cruel than hunting because the animal is chased and er , what it 's heart is doing while it 's being chased and it 's , really is the idea 's quite horrendous to me ! |
| 11 | These differences are reflected in the pellets , with owl pellets containing more bone which is less broken and raptor pellets less bone which is more broken , but there is an important size element here which complicates the issue . |
| 12 | Underpinning these changes there has been an acceleration in the trend towards the ‘ professionalisation ’ of journalism , a tendency noted as long ago as 1976 by Graham Cleverly in The Fleet Street Disaster : higher salaries ( at least on the nationals ) , fewer unsociable hours , less bloke-ishness and booze . |
| 13 | The less rigid and routine your prescribing the better the outcome will be . |
| 14 | It is even less clear that industry , in general , should be ‘ under the control of the community ’ . |
| 15 | At fieldwork level , this makes possible more informed decisions about priorities and care planning , although it is less clear whether information gathered through special needs registers is routinely available to fieldworkers and is routinely updated by them . |
| 16 | Sovereignty over continental Antarctica is less clear because ownership is in question . |
| 17 | This mean reversion effect became stronger in both countries as delivery approached , and this is consistent with arbitrage becoming less costly and less risky as maturity declines . |
| 18 | And for both , morbidity statistics are less accessible and less reliable than mortality data . |
| 19 | An intellectual amusement resides in the interplay between what for simplicity 's sake we can represent as just two contrasting ranges of marked and unmarked language — although arse is undoubtedly less marked than fuck . |
| 20 | In a sense , just as out and out dementia is less interesting than neurosis and eccentricity , so the music of these episodes , with their rather obvious distortions and wrong attributions of earlier themes , is less gripping than the Passacaglia , where Grimes was still somewhat in control of his faculties . |
| 21 | He works this kind of stiff-upper-lip colonialist nostalgia very well , of course — if only the material he chose had been less plodding and lightweight , he might have emerged as more than a typecast cypher . |
| 22 | Inevitably skills analysis is more general and less definitive than task analysis although many of the same procedures for extracting evidence might be used . |
| 23 | EASTER remains almost the best time for a family gathering ; far less demanding than Christmas , and more cheering , with the rest of spring and summer to look forward to . |
| 24 | EASTER remains almost the best time for a family gathering ; far less demanding than Christmas , and more cheering , with the rest of spring and summer to look forward to . |
| 25 | Leading on from this , a more general point is that where the objective of the operation is rather broader than profit maximization , shareholder control is probably far less appropriate than state control ( see , for example , Baumol , 1984 ) . |
| 26 | I sit in front of the television and impress my girl-friend by pointing out all the faults of the players ; it is much more comfortable and less dangerous than participation , and my girl-friend thinks I am wonderful . |
| 27 | Lust was far less dangerous than love . |
| 28 | There is evidence to suggest that victims of these other forms of serious sexual assault regard them as no less serious than rape ( narrowly defined ) . |
| 29 | It was true that those concerned with the enforcement of the law in this country were apprehensive that the abolition of the death penalty would be followed by an increase in crimes of violence ; but their predecessors had in the past opposed for the same reason the abolition of the death penalty for offences less serious than murder and their apprehensions had not in the event proved justified . |
| 30 | In one way it is more limited , in that it is restricted to rodents , but in another it is less limited because rodent incisors are less variable between rodent taxonomic groups than are the molars . |