Example sentences of "a less [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Berkeley 's seventeenth-century predecessors were as anxious as he was to suggest that the regularity of nature is a manifestation of God 's goodness ; but in making an independent material world the cause of ideas , they give God a less crucial role than Berkeley does . |
| 2 | It has been suggested by revisionist historians that Truman 's policy in the Far East in the summer of 1945 was governed by his hostility to Russia and that the atomic bomb was deployed against Japan in part at least to persuade the Soviet Union to follow a less abrasive policy in eastern Europe . |
| 3 | You will see the gradual development of a less self-centred view in your child 's play . |
| 4 | Additional insights into production are provided by the blanks for making brooches at Baldock , while the counterfeiters ' Severan coin-moulds at Ancaster and the fourth-century examples at Duston represent a less legal activity . |
| 5 | Technology itself may be up-to-date , chip-bound , computer-orientated ; or it may be simple , and concerned with skills of a less modern kind ( though they may be just as difficult to acquire ) . |
| 6 | In doing so he might find himself in the company of evolutionary epistemologists such as Riedl ( 1979 ) , whose over-arching theory of life as an ‘ erkenntnisgewinnender prozess ’ seems to require a unitary notion of knowledge or information , information that can be stored in a genome at one end of the evolutionary spectrum , as well as be expressed , at the other end , by scientific theories that make the world a less strange place to live in . |
| 7 | Thus for a time after 1905 alien influence in Northeast Asia became a less immediate question . |
| 8 | Pigments are confined with linseed oil and blended with selected waxes , which means that colours dry to form a less brittle film than conventional oil colour . |
| 9 | Peel 's move to a less accessible weekend slot was seen as a step towards the exit door of the Beeb . |
| 10 | Peel 's move to a less accessible weekend slot was seen as a step towards the exit door of the Beeb . |
| 11 | If you 've set your heart on some specific feature — say , white carpet — and find it 's not feasible or practical or that it 's too expensive , then look sensibly at the alternatives and find a less impossible compromise . |
| 12 | ‘ A less potent version of the first , with just a hint of the second . |
| 13 | A less legitimate gain , but one which might still be made in an unsuccessful war , was to exploit the system of contracting to provide troops . |
| 14 | ( Contrast the name ‘ magazine ’ , using the same technology but suggesting a less news-based idea . ) |
| 15 | But before turning to Buid relations with neighbouring lowlanders , I will bring out the specificity of Buid attitudes toward violence and aggression by comparing them with other Philippine groups who have a less negative attitude toward these phenomena . |
| 16 | And Austen Chamberlain was still telling Baldwin that the Conservative position would only be restored if he bestirred himself and put a less negative spirit in his speeches . |
| 17 | Apparently modifying her stance of late 1989 , when she had warned against any over-hasty German reunification , Thatcher now took a less negative line , and on March 29 she appeared to concede for the first time that changes in Eastern Europe meant that " some reductions " could be made to the British Army of the Rhine in West Germany . |
| 18 | In other words — in , to be precise , the words of the public relations bureau of the Cucumber and Tomato Marketing Board — the tomato which commands the highest price is an all-purpose ( or is it non-purpose ? ) product ; " not every mouth " and I quote " can afford to choose caviare instead of kippers or an aristocratic difficult low yielding variety of tomato rather than a less fastidious tomato with a heavy yield . " |
| 19 | The movements here are more complex , there is a less complete frontality of presentment and symmetry of design . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Scintigraphy is a less invasive approach to the study of bowel motility than manometry . |
| 22 | ‘ Older buildings , particularly those of a less substantial form of construction , therefore present a greater risk . |
| 23 | Given the emphasis currently being placed on the role that schools should be playing , by providing a more socially relevant curriculum , more student-centred learning and a less alienating environment so as to prevent truancy , it is clearly important that education becomes the focus of any intervention . |
| 24 | Labour is , however , becoming a less vulnerable target . |
| 25 | But , to be honest , Mildred felt that there had been quite enough animal enchantments in the school to last a lifetime , and it seemed a less desperate measure to do a nice , straightforward kidnap where at least you could see exactly what was happening . |
| 26 | Scottish libraries appear to take a less totalitarian view . |
| 27 | In conformity with the greater strain placed on them , the forequarters show a less angled system for support and braking . |
| 28 | The resulting Readership Report set the guidelines for making reading a less esoteric activity and for actively canvassing the pleasure of good books in the face of hyped and ephemeral competition . |
| 29 | Above all , this is a less regimented show than Noelte made it ; the chorus work is scrappy , and sometimes looks under-rehearsed , with much School-of-Sadlers-Wells handshaking and glass-waving . |
| 30 | A less selective article might have noted that the main thrust of the advice for harp seats is that pup production in 1977–1980 was likely to have been longer than the later 1960s pup production . |