Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] less [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence , the emphasis of our work which , broadly speaking , is concerned with helping either organizations , by which I mean galleries and arts centres , or individuals , in other words artists , craftsmen , photographers , and is increasingly directed to the former in the belief that if we can help them , these centres and galleries , towards adequate levels of staffing and expertise , they in their turn , and much less artificially than we , will be able to help the individual artist . |
| 2 | Lloyds is no more outlandish or intrusive than Tower Bridge and much less so than the monstrous and melancholy Battersea Power Station , a sublime work of imperious architecture that Londoners once loved to hate but now admire . |
| 3 | Traditionally , organisations are constructed pyramidally , with a hierarchy most powerful at the top and progressively less so as the pyramid spreads downwards . |
| 4 | It pulls hard , evenly and far less raucously than an Astra GSi , Escort RS2000 or Renault 19 16v . |
| 5 | We were not very happy to find that Hillsborough had been chosen and even less so when we were allocated the Leppings Lane End . |
| 6 | The curists still come , it seems , to drink , gargle or bathe in the baths at the top of the town , but since the end of the last war the cure has been democratized ; in an age of health insurance many can afford it who before could not , and contemporary spa-goers both demand less and live less expensively than their more frivolous predecessors . |
| 7 | Benefits were distributed socially and spatially less widely than anticipated . |
| 8 | It is usual to grow on the cuttings for a year so that the stock stems become somewhat thicker than a pencil but rather less so than your little finger . |
| 9 | They became strong and agile swimmers , still vulnerable to attack but much less so than the invertebrates . |
| 10 | Even the ticking-over rate of about 10 pulses per second is probably quite costly , but much less so than the maximum rate of 200 per second . |