Example sentences of "less [adj] and [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they forget they are less agile and machinery has changed since they last worked , and they get caught out . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The less rigid and routine your prescribing the better the outcome will be . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But funding has been significantly less than other programmes , dissemination of materials less effective and leadership less dynamic . |
| 7 | Slaked lime is less effective and quicklime is altogether too fierce . |
| 8 | But uncomfortable questions must also be raised about the less traditional and disciplinarian approaches to education , to family , and to other social institutions which Left and liberal opinion have championed . |
| 9 | Where skills are more firm-specific , however , they are less marketable and labour can not necessarily expect to resume their wage profile when they move to another firm . |
| 10 | Goans commend the progressiveness of the British , compared to the intransigence of Salazar ; but they also point out that there was far less racial and colour prejudice in the Portuguese territory . |
| 11 | The more common remedies are no less fanciful and voluntarist , from exhumation of the Schumpeterian entrepreneur to proposals for corporate cultural revivalism ( see Ray , 1986 ) and an evangelical faith in the explanatory purchase of ‘ economic culture ’ in its post-Confucian mode , an explanation to which can be attributed both the ‘ decline of the West ’ and the rise of East Asia . |
| 12 | In Moscow , where the average factory was smaller and factory workers were outnumbered by artisans in small workshops , social polarization was less extreme and labour protest less fierce . |
| 13 | These stages , apparently complex and certainly time consuming for both buyer and supplier , are less problematic and time consuming than the effects of buying and using incorrect or inadequate products . |
| 14 | Much less flashy and class orientated in a UK sense , they have more of a general consultancy view of the world , with a problem-solving approach rather than just an interest in completing a job . |
| 15 | Across the Rhine , there is less toing and froing . |
| 16 | Song less musical and flight slower than Swallow . |
| 17 | armoured animals are like rich people — insulated from the real hazards of life and therefore less streetwise' and opportunist . |
| 18 | Julian says the conventional sewage treatment plants being installed by Severn Trent are less efficient and cost 10 times as much to build.Severn Trent says it ca n't comment on the seven million pound claim until the court hearing . |
| 19 | But the more tutored a course is , it is likely that the less self-reliance and self-activity are produced in the students . |
| 20 | Software for Free evaluates the very best in low cost software making the task of choosing a lot less frustrating and time consuming , and by effectively cutting down the number of programs you need to look at it might even save you some money . |
| 21 | The relative decline of US capital ( chapter 10 ) was reflected in large balance of payments deficits as US goods became less and less competitive and war expenditures in Vietnam climbed . |
| 22 | He was only restrained from burning it to the ground by Harcourt , who urged him to ‘ be a little less impetuous and content yourself with what you have done ’ . |