Example sentences of "less [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the-more subtle use of colour in the latter also produces a less contrived flower . |
| 2 | Would n't heterosexual women have tired in the end , of explaining why Marx ignored women and how rape was the result of capitalist oppression , and found less contrived answers ? |
| 3 | And he argues that changing social relations imply the need for more specialist and responsive service delivery , while changing managerial technologies ( particularly information technology ) make it possible to flatten managerial hierarchies by removing many of the middle layers and encouraging the growth of decentralized offices with less professional specialization and a greater ability to deal with individual issues across professional lines . |
| 4 | In the early days of sociology , that is , in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century , there was much less professional specialization of the two disciplines of sociology and psychology . |
| 5 | They were not quite the least well educated : in our panel , Mirror readers had slightly less professional qualifications than even Sun/Star readers , though every other paper 's readers ( and non-readers ) had much more . |
| 6 | Some of the less professional search firms have been known to treat candidates shoddily , and even the leading firms would admit that a few of the candidates they had encountered would be justified in feeling hard-done-by . |
| 7 | Writing in The Executive Grapevine , he sees natural competition between search firms as enough to foster and maintain their quality , and considers that the last few years have witnessed a weeding-out of the less professional outfits resulting in fewer and better consultants . |
| 8 | Deputy Head ( Staff ) : ‘ I discern less professional commitment than 3 years ago … incentives lacking ? … opportunities not there ? ’ |
| 9 | Notice below ( Example 9 ) how Ponchielli begins with small leaps and then , as the melody reaches its climax , expands to leaps of a fifth , a sixth , and a seventh before the theme sinks again to less emotional expression : |
| 10 | Less emotional people , such as Geminis and Sagittarians , find this sort of behaviour difficult to tolerate . |
| 11 | Change the oil — the cleaner the oil , the less corrosive contaminants it contains . |
| 12 | The interests of the other classes find more or less coherent expression in movements of opposition and protest . |
| 13 | In his notebooks of 1867 we find an extraordinary profusion of plans for a book : one or two are lists of wide-ranging topics arranged to form a more or less coherent whole ; most are variations on the theme of tragedy . |
| 14 | Somehow Shadwell contrives to create a more or less coherent narrative out of all this , and Lloyd 's manic production , which combines Restoration costumes with kitsch trimmings from the 1950s , moves at a pace which leaves the audience breathless . |
| 15 | During his second term changes in key advisers , the Iran-Contra scandal and Reagan 's growing inattention to his job all contributed to a less coherent administration . |
| 16 | It recounts a complex story in a more or less coherent fashion . |
| 17 | ( But note that , despite what has been said in this paragraph concerning the administration of funds , the fact that there was less political pay in the fourth century also helped to dilute the democracy . ) |
| 18 | Whatever else , privatization does act as a pre-commitment that there will be less political tampering with these industries . |
| 19 | ‘ As rural communities have become increasingly marginal to national economies they have been given less political priority … |
| 20 | However , the conferences turned out to carry less political weight than had been expected . |
| 21 | It was published at the end of 1944 and had far less political impact than his report . |
| 22 | The Black Prince was to show that he was a man of considerable military flair but rather less political sensitivity than his father , and that he was capable of adopting a harsh and inflexible approach in government which would have augured ill had he ever become king . |
| 23 | Monnet 's mission was twofold : to improve Giraud 's reactionary image in the Allied press by eliminating the most blatant traces of Vichy rule in North Africa ; and to find a formula for unifying Giraudists and Gaullists in such a way as to absorb de Gaulle 's movement into a larger and less political organization . |
| 24 | Reports suggested heightened tension between Ray MacSharry , the EC Commissioner responsible for agriculture and rural development , who favoured raising tariffs on imports of US oilseeds and cereal substitutes to offset the loss to farmers , and Frans Andriessen , the Commissioner responsible for external relations , trade policy and co-operation with other European countries , who preferred a less protectionist Community offer . |
| 25 | Pupils with less severe hearing impairments may also need modifications to the requirements , but of a less far-reaching nature . |
| 26 | The lower transfusion requirements in the regulated group reflected milder illness with less investigational blood loss but may also have related to a greater initial endowment of red cells and their precursors . |
| 27 | Such arrangements were mutually beneficial , although there was always a tendency for the Communist influence to increase at the expense of other less cohesive groups . |
| 28 | Even poetry would not address such matters except in the more or less orthodox , more or less devotional form of Paradise Lost . |
| 29 | East Belfast adjoins the Ulster-Scots region of North Down ( where backing is strong ) , whereas West Belfast points south-west down the Lagan Valley , the speech of which is Mid-Ulster with less Scots influence ; furthermore , immigration to West Belfast is recent and is largely from a Mid- West-Ulster non-Scots hinterland . |
| 30 | Thus better-adapted forms will tend to replace less well-adapted forms . |