Example sentences of "[prep] [art] less [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had for a long time been publicly expressed unease in the United Kingdom about the unsatisfactory training of people treating the diseases of animals , whether they were farriers in the sense of being shoeing-smiths acting as horse-doctors , or were medical practitioners — physicians , or more especially surgeons — who had , partly or completely , left human medicine for the less crowded and potentially more lucrative ( if less socially acceptable ) field of animal medicine . |
| 2 | This same process is the one we have adopted as the main teaching method for the less academic and less well motivated school pupil . |
| 3 | This same process is the one we have adopted as the main teaching method for the less academic and less well-motivated school pupil … |
| 4 | While Brunner 's theology was for a time regarded , especially in Britain and America , as more ‘ moderate ’ than Barth 's , and therefore preferable , he must now be regarded as the less radical and less creative of the two . |
| 5 | In Tables 6.2 and 6.3 the differences between the two groups are all in the expected direction , with the scale of the difference between the less costly and more costly being very similar for both variables ; some of the differences are large enough to be statistically significant , for example that between those who lived with others or alone in Newham at second assessment ( significant at the one per cent level ) . |
| 6 | This week Fifa revealed the possibility of a less spectacular but rather more sensible change of law . |
| 7 | But it will prove to be a necessary and worthwhile one if it leads us in the direction of a less doctrinaire and therefore more properly educational form of antiracism . |
| 8 | One way to reduce unemployment would be to attack the problems of a less glamorous but equally important technology . |
| 9 | In his dialogue with Lewis that September night , Tolkien was really arguing for a less human and more ‘ even ’ approach to the Gospel story . |
| 10 | British conduct was also contrasted with the less helpful and less resolute behaviour of the French . |
| 11 | The various socialist minorities in the party were being eliminated as autonomous bodies and their members forced into the less independent but more electorally effective local labour parties . |
| 12 | Thus we can pose the question ; to what extent is the traditional hierarchical nature of bureaucracy at odds with a less deferential and more egalitarian society ? |
| 13 | The truly interested would undoubtedly be better off sitting down with a less amusing but ultimately more useful camcorder manual . |
| 14 | Instead , they will be replaced with a magazine with a less strident and more caring title - Dialog . |
| 15 | But the glamour of track events must n't overshadow the historic achievement of Steve Redgrave in the less popular but equally tough sport of rowing . |
| 16 | In a less obvious but equally influential manner , if a credit squeeze is applied as a macroeconomic policy , the resulting high interest rates will reduce the number of people able to take out mortgages . |
| 17 | Bush retained similar formal structures , but his greater personal involvement in decisions and preference for informal meetings with advisers resulted in a less structured and sometimes indecisive White House ( Campbell , 1992 , pp. 93–113 ) . |
| 18 | They prefer ‘ junk food ’ laden with additives , cholesterol and calories , but with very low nutrition value , to the less exciting but more nutritious food offered by the institution . |
| 19 | Since her marriage , she had become accustomed to a less competitive and more rural way of life and therefore regarded her return to court as a duty , an onerous duty . |
| 20 | In its purest form , the doctrine advocated a return to subsistence economy but on a less individualistic and more communal basis . |
| 21 | On a less tragic but equally terrifying note , a family fled from their Worcester home in February 1986 to stay with relatives until the council could find them another house . |
| 22 | Before moving on to discuss the process of loss in relation to the death of someone close to us , it is helpful to look at a less significant but nevertheless important and unexpected loss and see our reaction there . |
| 23 | More usually , however , each wave shows an elliptical strip of the sky , light , from the horizon , with a dark reflection in its middle ; the whole surrounded by the less dark but increasingly rich colour made up from the sky above added to the colour of the water itself . |
| 24 | But their importance was overlaid by the less formal and increasingly numerous letters of the type found in the state papers , the Privy Council 's register , and private collections : letters that conveyed information , advice , admonition , and informal orders ; documents that were not bound by the rigid formularies of legal requirement . |