Example sentences of "less [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If using a large specimen plant the tank will generally look less contrived if this is place just off-centre . |
| 2 | They are purchased in brine and are less pungent and slightly sweeter than true peppercorns . |
| 3 | By comparison , badger aroma is much less pungent and less acrid , though it can be quite strong in the vicinity of the sett , where the occupants have repeatedly marked both the ground and each other . |
| 4 | In the 1968 ( Ministry of Health 1968 ) proposals , the boards were envisaged as operating as small executive management teams , with the senior administrator acting as managing director and with far less professional and medical input into decision-making . |
| 5 | Modern industrial society with its superior ‘ organic ’ solidarity could dispense with these primitive aids to cohesion and develop the more civilized , less emotional and , above all , rational legal processes which Durkheim took to be characteristic of progress . |
| 6 | Peel-off masks are more gentle but less cleansing than clay . |
| 7 | Mr Bryan Gould is generally rated less European than the Shadow Chancellor , Mr John Smith ; and Mr Gerald Kaufman , the Shadow Foreign Secretary , has swung round from gut anti-Europeanism to a conviction that powerful central institutions are unavoidable — and Britain should play its full part . |
| 8 | Degreasers can , with care , be applied to aluminium surfaces as silicates are less corrosive than the caustics . |
| 9 | The activities of politicians , pop stars and policemen notwithstanding , life for most people is much the same , obviously , whatever decade it is — more or less endurable if you are young , that is , and quite the opposite if you are not . |
| 10 | Why do you think that direct file organization is less used than some other file organization techniques ? |
| 11 | Hawtree says that pesticides are , ‘ less used than they were . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She felt much less used and abused when she could distinguish whether his hugs were genuine offers of warmth and love towards her or whether they were his means of asking for something just for himself . |
| 14 | He learned , too , how the soil became damper and less resonant as both species gradually abdicated before the tattered white willows which marched thirstily alongside the streams that tumbled towards the river . |
| 15 | She is the Blackrag Madonna , and her prophecies are madder , darker and less coherent than those of the wildest shamen two levels up . |
| 16 | Real skins are much less coherent than the stereotype . |
| 17 | This alternative strategy is in many respects less coherent than Owen 's and it is this which helps to explain the fact that Roger 's approach is often misunderstood by those outside the unit . |
| 18 | When he attended the Armistice Day service in his donkey jacket , walking stick , and gammy leg , he provoked not only the predictable snorts from the Respectably Dressed camp , but also a less coherent and actually much nastier howling from stylocracy — he looked so awful . |
| 19 | Organizations are arenas within which some things will tend to hang together and be adopted by power-players as a bundle , while other forms of combination may be far less likely to occur as a coherent package , perhaps because they are less coherent or because the alliance which could make them so lacks a position in the field of power to be able to constitute the necessity of its choices . |
| 20 | Medved is guilty of some distinctly muddled thinking on pop , which is less political than it was 20 or 30 years ago when Alice Cooper sang about school being blown to pieces . |
| 21 | The discussions of RMI have been less public and less political but , within the health service , and in the professional groups , in particular , the reaction has been quite intense . |
| 22 | Important as they were for historians of the future , and as a source for scholarship generally , public records generated less political and academic controversy then than later . |
| 23 | They have informed me that the seraglio contains beautiful apartments , more or less spacious and splendid according to the rank and income of the females . |
| 24 | It is less understandable when the union is caricatured in more seriously researched publications . |
| 25 | However , the effect of experience on temperament is still limited by the horse 's genetic traits — for example , if both the naturally placid horse and the naturally nervous horse were brought up in the same rough environment , then the placid horse would still be less timid than the nervous one . |
| 26 | I think the show would have been less timid if he had sought out more of the artists in their 20s who nowadays keep coming up in mixed exhibitions in Liverpool , Birmingham , Leeds , Whitechapel and so on . |
| 27 | That Joan uses less Creole than Carol should not obscure the fact that in the course of the conversation , Joan accommodates to Carol by using increasingly more Creole features . |
| 28 | Members of informal groups in work organizations usually have vague group objectives , and are less cohesive and behave erratically . |
| 29 | Other officers whose position is defined in statute claim a less specific but still important independent locus of authority . |
| 30 | In most secondary schools , TVEI has laid the necessary foundations ; but TVEI criteria are ( sensibly ) less specific than the statutory requirements of the National Curriculum , and planning for the latter will need to be sharper . |