Example sentences of "less [adj] [noun sg] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She therefore rents her newly acquired property during this period : ‘ My four-bedroom apartment can easily be let out for £1,500 per week gross , which , less Spanish tax and rental commission , works out at approximately £1,000 per week , which covers my community charges and management fees . ’ |
| 2 | Engraving is like translating ; it has its own idiom , and skilled engravers became expert at transforming finished drawings or amateur sketches into plates , though engraving is a less rich language than drawing . |
| 3 | It should be noted that morbidity statistics are generally of less reliable quality than mortality statistics . |
| 4 | Indeed , in this respect status is a less reliable control than affection , since it is usually available in more varied forms . |
| 5 | Other types of avoidable killing are either defined as a less serious crime than murder , or as matters more appropriate for administrative or civil proceedings , or as events beyond the justifiable boundaries of state interference . |
| 6 | In those of the 1640S he follows , though with less psychological insight and power of characterization , the way pointed by Monteverdi away from the ceremonial princely opera toward what one might call dramatic solo opera for the larger public : drama expressed mostly in expressive recitative monologue and lively recitative dialogue , with the brief ‘ arias ’ usually left to the minor characters . |
| 7 | The second was by intuition , a much less conscious process than sensation . |
| 8 | Styling is less square cut than predecessor 's but still pretty ponderous compared with others in the class . |
| 9 | However , from the gravitational influence of Mercury on the orbit of Mariner 10 a mass was obtained with 5 times less observational uncertainty than radar had yielded , to give a mean density of 5430 kg/m 3 . |
| 10 | Until that fatal weakness is overcome , I fear that the understandably-depressed Dr David Marsh will continue to find chairmanship of a professional football club a far less rewarding pastime than captaincy of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club . |
| 11 | Primitive , that is pre-literate , societies of the present period also exhibit restrictions on the instincts , but have less physical security because technology has not developed so far . |
| 12 | But it is a less flexible fibre than nylon , and lacks nylon 's performance edge , ’ explains Coleman . |
| 13 | The Mediterranean countries employ a larger proportion of their population in agriculture , they have much lower per capita incomes and less well-developed manufacturing and service sectors . |
| 14 | Delacroix , Turner , Isabey and Prout are all here , as are less familiar landscape and genre painters like Paul Huet and Eugene Lami . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , with a marginally less successful Cup than League record , Athletico have never been in that position . |
| 16 | The same could be said of Cortot 's Schumann , music-making of a no less legendary calibre and status . |
| 17 | The older you get , the less efficient collagen and elastin fibres become . |
| 18 | There is a real danger here that other publishers could jump on the Reed bandwagon , and force wholesalers to buy at less advantageous discount and credit terms . ’ |
| 19 | So , too , was it overseas , though in a less belligerent mode as time went on . |
| 20 | More established resorts improve a lot on these standards , but perhaps offer less local colour and charm . |
| 21 | This is not to say that people will not give the support ( as we know they do and invariably at great sacrifice ) ; but it does suggest that care by the community is seen as a less attractive option than care from professionals , but with the support and involvement of the family . |
| 22 | ‘ Feminine ’ methods such as participant observation , small-sample depth-interviewing , and concentration on qualitative rather than quantitative variables , have less academic prestige and acceptability than their ‘ masculine ’ counterparts . |