Example sentences of "less [adj] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I guess he figured the malais would be less alert in the torpor of the mid-afternoon , while darkness was still not so far away that it could n't cloak his escape . |
| 2 | Recently though , I have become less depressed with the help of antidepressants and I 've realised that I no longer want to be ill . |
| 3 | In the first study we were able to show that clients treated in either mode were significantly less depressed at the end of treatment than those held on a waiting list for the same length of time ( Scott and Stradling , 1990 ) , and that this reduction in symptoms was maintained for up to 12 months post treatment — see Figure 3 . |
| 4 | But though this may quell doubts about the benefits of the existence of large-scale enterprise , it does not bear on the point that where competition is attenuated a policy of profit maximisation may not be wealth maximising : society might be better served if companies were to lower price and increase output , even though this would be less profitable from the company 's point of view . |
| 5 | There would be a sight less suffering in the world . ’ |
| 6 | Powered by three 825hp Rolls-Royce Buzzard IIMS liquid-cooled , in-line engines , the Perth retained a number of features familiar to the Iris , but differed in having a hull shallower and less broad in the beam , this hull being covered by corrosion-resistant Alclad . |
| 7 | This in itself presents a powerful argument against change , for it is clearly desirable that national and EC policies should be broadly similar if only because it is less confusing to the business community . |
| 8 | The stone buildings surrounding it seemed less solid in the moonlight , as if they might at any moment shimmer and disappear . |
| 9 | What was possible for the nation under the Old Covenant is no less possible for the church under the New . |
| 10 | Hitherto regarded as a moderate in his policies towards the West , the president 's rhetoric is becoming less conciliatory with the approach of presidential elections in June . |
| 11 | The rest of the afternoon had been more or less normal for the time of year except that Ted had been following Pete around for most of it , trying to pump him for details of what had happened between him and Diane Jackson . |
| 12 | ‘ West Brom will be less apprehensive about the replay , but playing away from home has not presented us with any major phobia . |
| 13 | Less apprehensive of the weather now she knew it was due to improve , she was glad of permission to use the transistor . |
| 14 | The presence of hydrogen means they are less stable in the atmosphere , leading to a greatly reduced atmospheric residence time . |
| 15 | Even his great friend and business partner in the Second Dominion , Hebbert Nuits-St-Georges , called Peccable by those who knew him well , a merchant who had made substantial profit from the superstitious and the woebegone in the Second Dominion , regularly remarked that the order of Yzordderrex was less stable by the day , and he would soon take his family out of the city , indeed out of the Dominion entirely , and find a new home where he would not have to smell burning bodies when he opened his windows in the morning . |
| 16 | Known for its gleaming and airy entrance lobby , bedecked with trees and tropical plants which became a night-time illumination , the building was regarded as one of the more tasteful and less controversial of the City 's recently constructed edifices . |
| 17 | The home side were less grateful for the woodwork , when Jim Magilton beat the wall and the 'keeper with a near-perfect free-kick . |
| 18 | The division between open and closed villages was not always as clear-cut as this may imply — many villages lay somewhere between the two — and it was less extensive in the upland areas where less labour was employed and more workers ‘ lived in ’ on the farms . |
| 19 | " The gentlemen who sat on the bench were more or less connected with the shipping trade , and the law had been somewhat strained to obtain the conviction " . |
| 20 | In other words , they make him feel less helpless in the face of adversity . |
| 21 | Most inner city councils have a long socialist tradition which makes them even less popular with the government , and despite some recent softening of the government 's attitude , local authorities are still largely excluded from inner city initiatives . |
| 22 | Parties associated with policies of increasing taxation and growing public expenditure appeared to be less popular at the ballot box . |
| 23 | To have left the tube and drain in place for 14–21 days would have been ideal but less acceptable to the patient . |
| 24 | Thus , it will be less prevalent in the development of oil fields and property sites , than in R & D and training ’ . |
| 25 | The clean air is a little more involved — surprisingly , the disease was markedly less prevalent before the advent of modern clean air policies . |
| 26 | I found it more or less buried in the mud , underneath where the body had been . |
| 27 | Sir William Tyrrell one of the less distinguished of the chain of Foreign Office permanent under-secretaries , stayed at Chequers almost once a month , and occasionally at Astley . |
| 28 | The same cells also become less responsive to the growth inhibitory effect of transforming growth factor beta ( TGFΒ ) . |
| 29 | In terms of their asset ownership and their household structure , elderly people today have greater command over resources and are less dependent on the goodwill of their kin than was the case in the early years of the twentieth century . |
| 30 | As the base of the Japanese economy becomes more and more industrial and commercial , less and less dependent on the support of the rural sector , and as the shrinking agricultural sector in its turn has less to offer to the rest of the economy , this mutual interdependence between the two sectors will diminish still further . |