Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] a less [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They get the argument out of a tight corner , and make for a less fatalistic scenario . |
| 2 | As Minister of Defence between 1955 and 1957 , Zhukov had vigorously pressed for a less onerous regime of Party supervision and for greater General Staff autonomy in military — technical matters . |
| 3 | There was , moreover , a considerable amount of discretion in terms of what might count as ‘ violence ’ in a street robbery , and it seems likely that street robbers were more commonly charged with ‘ bag-snatching ’ which was regarded as a less serious offence than ‘ robbery with violence ’ . |
| 4 | However , he is regarded as a less vocal critic of the government , has banned the study of the Medellin documents and asked nuns and priests to withdraw from their community work on the grounds that it had become too dangerous : |
| 5 | Furthermore , it is argued , the needs and wants of a less developed country are so far in advance of that country 's productive capacity that it is useless to waste resources focusing on them . |
| 6 | If one examines the needs and wants of a less developed society and relates this information to the production capacity of that country , ways may be found to develop products that consumers want and which the country is capable of producing . |
| 7 | Fortunately , that family was able to put in extra money — although it meant some sacrifices , such as doing without holidays and so on — but I contend that if those two girls had come from a less fortunate background , they simply would not have been able to continue their courses in current circumstances . |
| 8 | The zebra loach has become so specialized that it can not survive in a less turbulent environment . |
| 9 | His first ‘ law of penal evolution ’ was a two-pronged ‘ law of quantitative change ’ : ‘ The intensity of punishment is the greater the more closely societies approximate to a less developed type — and the more the central power assumes an absolute character ’ ( Durkheim , 1973 : 295 ) . |
| 10 | Critics say it should concentrate on a less exclusive market . |
| 11 | Removing the ‘ job weeds ’ from my life has made for a less stressful lifestyle and I actually look forward to every day . |
| 12 | Looking for a less demanding occupation , she opened the first Body Shop in a tiny premises in a back street of Brighton in 1976 , selling fifteen different products in plastic bottles with hand-written labels . |
| 13 | This is not to say that people will not give the support ( as we know they do and invariably at great sacrifice ) ; but it does suggest that care by the community is seen as a less attractive option than care from professionals , but with the support and involvement of the family . |
| 14 | Now there were new forces at work and they tended to lead towards a less traditional form of realism . |
| 15 | Their rarity has led to the suggestion by Briscoe that the majority were made of a less durable material such as wood or even a soft stone such as chalk . |
| 16 | In RU 486 trials in Britain , most doctors gave prostaglandin as a vaginal pessary slowly absorbed with a less violent reaction . |
| 17 | Many of the staff were ‘ rather pugnacious characters — it 's a pity this dynamicism ca n't be channelled into a less reactionary form ’ . |
| 18 | But without the obligation to show current affairs in peak time , it may be pushed into a less attractive slot . |
| 19 | This figure fell to 6.7 per cent in 1989 as exports suffered from a less favourable exchange rate , from substantial increases in labour costs and from slower growth rates in South Korea 's main trading partners . |
| 20 | While the town house was completely enclosed in four walls on a rectangular plan to provide privacy from the streets , the villa was built in a less formal manner on a large ground plan and had terraced gardens overlooking the Bay of Naples . |
| 21 | This results in a less complex work organisation with more in common with single-place and composite systems . |
| 22 | Transfer from local authorities to voluntary organisations would result in a less equitable distribution of resources , and it is difficult to see how the shortcomings of the voluntary sector could be sufficiently modified to make voluntary organisations an acceptable alternative to local authorities as providers of community care services . |
| 23 | At least one panel contained a border of wavecrest pattern , such as can be seen in a less gracile form in both of the Leicester mosaics . |
| 24 | It is also worth noting that as rates rise in the money markets equities by comparison may be seen in a less favourable light , and if this produces a greater level of uncertainty about prices , options combined with the money markets may constitute a refuge for those investors wishing to avoid such doubts . |
| 25 | In practice , the minister has only once had to issue such a directive ( when the Conservatives after 1951 stopped any further action by the Iron and Steel Board ) as these reserve powers are quite sufficient to make the boards listen carefully to any suggestions made in a less formal manner by the minister . |
| 26 | Last year the Bank 's director for French West Africa , an outspoken advocate of devaluation of the CFA franc , was moved to a less controversial job . |
| 27 | When writing on a less metaphysical level , and in face of the paintings themselves , even Apollinaire had to admit that the subject played an important part , and that the realism of the movement lay in its attempt to make a totally new but nevertheless very concrete statement about the visual world . |
| 28 | By this time she was consciously beginning to play the role that most appealed to her ironic sense of self-awareness : the rather eccentric and certainly unorthodox grand old lady of her native Swansea , whose celebrated love of a good cigar , smoked in public , was matched at a less superficial level by deep attachment to the uncompromising principles instilled into her by her Quaker family background . |
| 29 | Where work can be done by a less senior collegue it will be charged at a lower rate . |
| 30 | ‘ As Emporio spreads and grows , I will concentrate more on doing a few limited pieces for the special clients who buy my signature line , ’ he smiles , betraying a special fondness for those who grudge no expense for a new take on a shoulder-line , a fresh twist to this year 's lapel that simply can not be copied in a less fluid fabric at a lower price . |