Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] less [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today , however , not only will they meet forty or less baying Athletico fans but also a team primed for a late surge up the League . |
| 2 | Outmigration has led to severely unbalanced social structures in many areas , with an ageing and less productive population . |
| 3 | The new Patents County Court provides , hopefully , a speedier and less expensive way of pursuing smaller claims . |
| 4 | The newspaper argued that the ordinary reader , possessed of a fairer and less suspicious mind , would presume innocence . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , a diagnosis of psychosomatic illness is often arrived at by a much shorter and less strenuous route than this , particularly with female patients , who tend to be perceived as more ‘ nervy ’ . |
| 6 | Figures for receivership were less positive , but entirely consistent with the view that the region has suffered a much shorter and less severe recession than any other . |
| 7 | Before its completion , there was a greater requirement for a lighter and less costly tank . |
| 8 | The machine-based fundament of modern civilisation has emancipated even those most exposed to severance from the requirements of life ; broader and less mutilated existence become a viable possibility . |
| 9 | But a different and less well-known set of problems emerges when attempts are made to examine alternation between standard and non-standard forms . |
| 10 | But what truth there is in the suggestion can be put in another and less misleading way . |
| 11 | The central part of the island seemed at first to belong to another and less dramatic world . |
| 12 | Indeed he was probably uncertain himself as to what the end-point would be , except that it was bound to be a less rigid and less bipolar system than the old one ; and he assumed that a more flexible multipolar system would not only be more advantageous to France but would be safer and more equitable for all states . |
| 13 | Whether one is ‘ sticking close to the knitting ’ ( Peters and Waterman , 1982 ; Redding , 1990 ) by focusing only on what one knows well , in a family business , or whether one is involved in imperatively co-ordinating only a fairly specific range of business-related activity , as in typical Japanese enterprises , leaving the broader picture to the inter-market relations and to state planning , one is certainly involved in a far more restricted and less audacious exercise of planning than one would be in trying to plan the twenty or thirty unrelated businesses of the typical conglomerate . |
| 14 | Indeed by this time Mao is specifically advocating that the Party ought to take a more cautious and less radical approach to land reform so as to not antagonize the interests of the middle and rich peasants . |
| 15 | 1.7 Example ( 26 ) shows us the second and less common relation contributing to the unfolding of syntactic structures , which we shall call equation , adopting the obvious symbol to represent it : ( 26 ) Fitzpatrick , our neighbour , used to plant potatoes the subject exemplifies the basic pattern [ E = E ] , ( as does the underlined portion of ( 22 ) ) ; in more exact terms , what we have in this subject phrase is : As we have just remarked , equational phrases are rarer than phrases involving qualification ; and , among them , there is a very large disproportion in favour of equation between E and E , rather than between P and P. Nevertheless , the latter can be found ; two examples would be : ( 28 ) what I need is a cup of strong , dark coffee for a fast , convenient trip to the city , take the Skytram This is clearly not to say that strong and dark , or fast and convenient , are equivalent at the type level ; only that on some particular occasion of use , as here , they may be regarded by speaker , or copywriter , as equivalent . |
| 16 | The second and less sweeping challenge to Hale came from Smith J. who , whilst accepting the contract and consent analysis , suggested that the consent could in certain circumstances be revoked by the wife . |
| 17 | A second and less well-known treaty gives the US the right to defend the canal 's neutrality . |
| 18 | Certainly denon 's is a substantially clearer and less muddled sound , but this can often also be achieved with simple care and attention to mastering , allied to access the original lacquers or tapes — which Denon has in many cases had . |
| 19 | Certainly the resolution of these problems will be crucial for the development of a more democratic and less authoritarian education system . |
| 20 | The concentration of plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 was significantly higher in malignant ascites ( 736 ( 213–165 ) ng/ml ) than in alcoholic ascites ( 16 ( <2–43 ) ng/ml , p<0.05 ) , and a similar but less pronounced pattern was found for plasminogen activator inhibitor-2 ( 43 ( <6- 140 ) ng ml in malignant ascites v <6 ( <6–28 ) ng/ ml in alcoholic ascites , p<0.05 ) . |
| 21 | Macaronis occur only in small numbers , and are always found nesting in a colony of the fairly similar but less gaudy rockhopper . |
| 22 | A similar but less marked pattern is to be found in other cases of sexual violence . |
| 23 | If the presence of the trespasser is known to or reasonably to be anticipated by the occupier , then the occupier has a duty to the trespasser , but it is a lower and less onerous duty than the one which the occupier owes to a lawful visitor . |
| 24 | Another interactive approach is more phenomenological , aiming to take into account the influence of informal interest groups ‘ such as civil rights and student power ( where ) changes in values and attitudes of a more subtle and less deliberate kind are developing ’ ( Kelly , 1982 ) ' . |
| 25 | The alternative electrostatic headphones are by nature precision assemblies and , like electrostatic loudspeakers , remain firmly in the upper price bracket except where the simpler and less costly electret principle with a pre-charged diaphragm or backplate has been used . |
| 26 | However , it was always possible for the rich and the powerful to isolate themselves from the consequences of industrial growth by moving away from the factory areas to the more tranquil and less squalid atmosphere of the countryside . |
| 27 | The concepts of purpose , relevancy and reasonableness can be used in an intensive or less intensive fashion . |
| 28 | Jobclubs are aimed at the younger and less skilled end of the market . |
| 29 | I swung majestically from the very end of the crux traverse on Gimmer Crag 's Kipling Groove , in from of an audience I half expected to hold up marks for style , and had to allow my younger and less experienced partner to show me how it should be done . |
| 30 | Although it might be very easy to steal from a friend or colleague and not get caught most people would feel this to be ‘ wrong ’ , yet such feelings may not exert such a strong influence over decisions as to whether to steal from a larger and less personal victim . |