Example sentences of "less [adj] [coord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ground is literally parched and every blade of grass is yellow as sulphur , but independent of this the land in the interior is less rich and the fen of the country less fertile than any country I have ever traveled [ sic ] . |
| 2 | All of this means that hovering in a wind is rather easier , since the ground effect is less marked and the tail is easier to control , despite a small trim change . |
| 3 | The paint quality is less seductive and the technique itself less conscious . |
| 4 | She puts her intellect to work on why she 's been such a pain for the last 50 years , and ends up a little less smug and a lot less married . |
| 5 | In his review of the content of US antitrust , he indicates some areas of policy where the decisions are now largely driven by sound economic analysis ( horizontal agreements and mergers ) and others where the basis for judgements is less satisfactory and the practice sometimes inconsistent ( vertical restraints and price discrimination ) . |
| 6 | If the economy is not growing at an annual rate of 3 per cent by the middle of 1994 as the Chancellor 's Budget arithmetic assumes , revenues will be less buoyant and the spending on welfare will be greater than forecast . |
| 7 | As the water percolated through the rocks , the leaching process became less effective and the porosity that was created decreased progressively away from the exposed surfaces . |
| 8 | One problem is that once closure is mooted congregations may melt away , services may become less frequent and the will to continue is eroded . |
| 9 | With time these ‘ cold sores ’ become less frequent and the severity of the attacks diminishes . |
| 10 | The idea 's to make hospital less daunting and the treatment more successful . |
| 11 | In rats given platelet activating factor , both oedema and leucocyte infiltration were less pronounced and the vacuolisation was observed in less than 25% of acinar cells ( Table II ) . |
| 12 | But where the political and social values of a country redefine the function of a school , as they have done in Tanzania , or , as with the growth of universal primary education , it becomes more obvious that the school is not mainly an escape route out of the village and on to secondary and higher education , so the separateness may become less pronounced and the desire for integration more genuine . |
| 13 | During the late 1970s , Commerson 's dolphin was the most heavily hunted , but recently this species has become less abundant and the crab fishermen are now catching Peale 's dolphin , dusky dolphin , Chilean black dolphin , and Burmeister 's porpoise . |
| 14 | If towing is permitted with only a wing-tip man , it is vital that the pilots all recognise that this is only safe if the ground is more or less level and the wind is very light . |
| 15 | She would have stopped there if the adrenalin in her system had been less potent or the half-smile on his face had n't taunted her to further repartee . |
| 16 | It has been found that well-informed patients are less anxious and the nurse can help by explaining what is likely to happen in the pre- , peri- and post-Operative periods . |
| 17 | The American nuclear umbrella over Western Europe would become less certain and the case for the independent British nuclear deterrent was correspondingly strengthened . |
| 18 | Now sailing encompasses windsurfing , dinghy sailing and ocean cruising and if you 've got millions of pounds to spend you can enter the Fastnet or the Admiral 's Cup but whatever level or whatever part of sailing you want to take up , the basic techniques are best learnt in a dinghy or sail boat because it 's less expensive and a lot more simple to operate and that 's the purpose of this video to learn the most basic techniques as quickly as possible and to be at one with the wind . |
| 19 | Even if they had to take sewing lessons first it would still be less expensive and the idea of hiring a wedding dress must be unappealing to many brides . |
| 20 | During the off-season , French life proceeds at its most natural , inviting pace , and what is more , travel generally is less expensive and the golf courses less crowded . |
| 21 | In this chapter , less emphasis is given to child than to infant mortality and , also , to morbidity , partly because the influence of biological factors becomes considerably weaker during childhood and , partly because the number of observed deaths decreases by age so rapidly that inferences drawn from survey statistics become less significant and the mortality figures more erratic due to increasing sampling errors . |