Example sentences of "[verb] for 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 | Removing the ‘ job weeds ’ from my life has made for a less stressful lifestyle and I actually look forward to every day . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | We therefore recommend that soap and water lovers opt for a less drying cleansing bar or facial wash instead , such as Vichy Aqua Tendre Transparent Cleansing Bar ( £4.80 ) , Clarins Gentle Foaming Cleanser ( £10.25 ) and Neutrogena Facial Cleansing Bars ( £1.89 ) |
| 6 | To that end , the organisers have opted for a less familiar face of Francis Bacon and tracked down rare and unusual material as well as pictures of great significance . |
| 7 | Abrams and Marsden ( 1987 ) found that it was easier to care for a heavily dependent person where there was an underlying positive relationship , than to care for a less dependent person where feelings were ambiguous or hostile . |
| 8 | To confirm that it was due to free radical production he searched for a less complicated generator of oxygen radicals . |
| 9 | Under Carters human rights programme , the state Department began to pressure the Shah to restrain his secret police , and Zahedis opulent flamboyance was ill suited for Carters desire for a less pretentious style of government . |
| 10 | United play their next League match on Thursday next week , against Southampton , and Mr Ferguson will be hoping for a less frenzied atmosphere than the one in which Manchester City 's Neil Pointon was sent off on Tuesday . |
| 11 | Bowled over by the originality and assurance of Joyce 's Ulysses , which was being sent to him by the author in typescript section by section , Pound was between 1920 and 1922 dismantling the several hundred lines of The Cantos that he had written and published , and recasting them radically , using some of the same material but trying for a less personalized presentation . |
| 12 | It 's er erm a little bit more straightforward a we 're looking straight onto this wall , looking straight onto the steps , and we 're looking straight onto the door , so everything is looking , sort of erm full-faced as it were and I think that makes for a less interesting composition than the previous one . |
| 13 | This chapter argues for a less pessimistic approach . |