Example sentences of "[vb -s] it less " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I travel in comfort , ’ he adds to explain why he finds it less of a hassle than many businessmen . |
| 2 | You are entitled to legal protection and reporting assaults to the police makes it less likely that they will recur . |
| 3 | The leadership also has a new control , which makes it less likely to be unhorsed by its own interest-groups than the Callaghan Government was in the late 1970s . |
| 4 | This makes it less likely that investors would encourage a dissolute borrower to mend its ways by withholding finance . |
| 5 | The company says this makes it less prone to fractures . |
| 6 | The new political crisis makes it less likely that Italy will meet the EC 's requirements for economic convergence on time . |
| 7 | Platelet factor 4 has a very short half-life ( Musial et al , 1980 ) compared to β-thromboglobulin , which therefore makes it less sensitive for the detection of the ‘ in vivo ’ platelet-release reaction , but it is a useful measure of artefactual in vitro secretion during and after blood sampling ( Kaplan & Owen , 1981 ) . |
| 8 | Familiarity with an environment makes it less hazardous ; for example people adjust spatially to avoid objects in their immediate vicinity . |
| 9 | The above non-existent records are , as I say , obvious candidates for forgery , but the simple fact of their being made by obsolete technology makes it less likely that forgeries will appear . |
| 10 | You are entitled to legal protection and reporting assaults to the police makes it less likely that they will occur . |
| 11 | It makes it less audacious and less entertaining than the Eye , of course , except for the literary and dramatic reviews . |
| 12 | Yet reticence in sexual matters makes it less than probable that these will be the first mentioned . |
| 13 | This makes it less relevant than it might be here , partly because the undergraduate curriculum is relatively more specialized than the secondary school one , and partly because distinctions or dimensions which are important in higher education — for example , between the pure and the applied — are less so in the schools . |
| 14 | But every day that goes by makes it less likely . ’ |
| 15 | Their devotion to the group makes it less likely that they will think in creative ways that are tangential to , or radically different from , those of the group . |
| 16 | ‘ Justice ’ refers to the obligation of the Prison Service to treat prisoners with humanity and fairness , and to prepare them for their return to the community in a way which makes it less likely that they will re-offend . |
| 17 | In an ideal world , your pump should be able to cope happily with normal pond detritus , without the need for a strainer of any kind , and any de-sludging should be at the filter , where back washing makes it less of a chore . |
| 18 | By raising the costs of separation and imposing legal delays , marriage makes it less likely that the spouses will give way to strong but temporary impulses to separate . |
| 19 | This encourages price uniformity among sellers and makes it less easy to label price-cutting a computational mistake . |
| 20 | The electorate can not do this because proportional representation makes it less likely that there will be a single winning governmental team . |
| 21 | They state : ‘ If PES makes it less likely that new monetary programmes with large spending implications will be introduced inadvertently , it also helps to assure departments that their on-going programmes will not suddenly be disrupted ’ ( Heclo and Wildavsky , 1981 , p. 238 ) . |
| 22 | Under-reporting can cause a serious deficiency in the gathering of necessary information and makes it less likely that anything will be done to improve the situation . |
| 23 | Adding some formatting to the spreadsheet not only makes it look better but makes it less likely that you will enter the wrong data for the percentage . |
| 24 | I regret to note that the removal of the stop at 120 Nicolson Street makes it less convenient for you to shop at Low 's supermarket . |
| 25 | If ownership transfer to the private sector has any direct benefit , it is only the one we cited above ; namely , that it makes it less easy for governments to use industries to meet the requirements of other political dictates . |
| 26 | offers potentially to enhance citizen participation in local government , to inform citizens of their rights and duties , and to provide new information-services to citizens , but on balance it reinforces local dominant coalitions , makes local government more expensive to run , makes it less responsive to the general public , and tends to exclude many interests ; |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm not surprised , ’ Ven replied , and taking a long pull of breath , ‘ I do n't seem to be doing this very well , ’ he stated , ‘ but at least we 're talking — which makes it less difficult than I thought it was going to be . ’ |
| 28 | Research has shown that good oxygenation makes it less likely that any rogue cells will survive to form a life-endangering tumour . |
| 29 | Oh , well yes , finding out what other people are feeling as well , because that that makes it less erm worrying for them . |