Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] less [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some ways the share price performance has made a deal with one of the US car giants less likely since the numbers have changed quite dramatically . |
| 2 | Both impacts will make investment projects less profitable at higher interest rates . |
| 3 | In an account of the continuation school movement , written in the 1920s , he was credited , together with Sadler and Stanley Hall , as being the man who made ‘ the issue clear : either organize the adolescent life of the nation on liberal lines or reap the consequences in a citizen body less stable , less progressive , less sound in mind and body than it might be ’ . |
| 4 | Even when aware of its existence , more important to most is the question of security , making digital VHF car radios less vulnerable to theft . |
| 5 | Among the " quick fix " solutions which have been proposed to counter global warming are : placing thousand of large mirrors in space to reflect sunlight ; making aircraft engines less efficient so that soot builds up in the stratosphere , with similar effect ; dumping iron filings into the oceans to stimulate the growth of plankton , which absorbs carbon dioxide ; using lasers to break up chlorofluorocarbons in the atmosphere ; and firing a million tons of dust into the upper atmosphere , also with a view to reflecting solar radiation . |
| 6 | To make the Ping Tiao less dependent on us . |
| 7 | If such a position were copied by a club player less skilled and using a less powerful hand-and-arm action , the clubface would stand little or no chance of squaring up on impact . |
| 8 | ’ We emphatically do not need new regulations , ’ Mrs Thatcher said in Bruges last autumn , ’ which raise the cost of employment and make Europe 's labour market less flexible . ’ |
| 9 | In Moscow , where the average factory was smaller and factory workers were outnumbered by artisans in small workshops , social polarization was less extreme and labour protest less fierce . |
| 10 | The spectrum of questions for which answers were sought took in everything from specifics , like ‘ Are dialogue sequences less compelling than action scenes ? ’ to abstracts querying the very suspension of disbelief principle thought essential to any form of drama viewing — especially children 's viewing . |
| 11 | And the notion of generalization decrement can also explain the effects of prior exposure to B alone if it is allowed that such training will make the B stimulus less effective and thus relatively unlikely to interfere with the perception of A when the two are presented in compound . |
| 12 | The surplus was despite the sharp appreciation of the austral in the second half of the year making the exchange rate less favourable and causing heavy financial losses for exporters [ see p. 37959 for January 1991 sharp depreciation of austral ] ; in addition US and European Community ( EC ) farm subsidies had depressed world farm prices . |
| 13 | Is Test cricket less significant and less enlightened an event than horse-racing ? |
| 14 | But the important consideration for prevention is the identification of methods of intervention which will make serious depressive illnesses less likely to occur . |
| 15 | Fossil fuel tax less costly than acid rain , according to Greenpeace |
| 16 | With the inspiration of the literacy crusade , one of the goals was to make classroom relations less authoritarian . |
| 17 | Conversely , is body size less important in male Weddells compared to other species because they defend underwater territories where success depends on manoeuvrability and because females are widely dispersed ? |
| 18 | The restored importance of indirect taxes , whatever its source , must , in the context of our earlier analysis , have made the UK tax system less progressive than it would otherwise have been . |
| 19 | The movement towards indirect taxation has therefore made the UK tax system less progressive than it would otherwise have been . |
| 20 | A low level of unemployment would certainly make the finance of the social security scheme less perilous but there had been no organised lobbying for a full employment policy . |
| 21 | The health care issue had been of growing concern in the USA both because of its cost ( 12 per cent of GNP compared with around 8 per cent for most other industrialized countries ) , and its effect of binding employees to their employers through the fear of losing their health insurance , thereby making the job market less flexible and deterring people from starting new businesses . |
| 22 | This ratio of ’ general ’ to ’ specific ’ material will vary between documents and domains , such that a high proportion of ’ general ’ material may render the use of a domain-specific collocation dictionary less appropriate . |
| 23 | There are , of course , many factors which would operate to make insider dealing and other conflict abuse less attractive to a company and its directors . |
| 24 | In spite of these objections , there may be some truth in the statement that UK labour costs have been too high in recent years and that this has made UK industries less competitive in world markets . |
| 25 | So what is required is a constriction of awareness which will remove some of the bad feeling and/or make the predicament look less severe or less intractable . |
| 26 | The Health and Safety at Work Act has made us rather more concerned about smells and bangs and the dangers these cause , so perhaps life is a little bit less smelly than it was , perhaps a little less exciting , but it ought to be a little longer too . |
| 27 | The IT and CTT policies are policies of indemnity and are settled up to the limits of each policy section less applicable excesses . |
| 28 | the yield on eurodollar bonds the yield differential with US domestic bonds ( net of withholding tax ) the yield curve relationship in the euromarkets ( eurobond yield less 3-month eurodollar rate ) the yield differential with Swiss franc eurobonds the US$ effective exchange rate industrial production ( as a proxy for economic activity ) . |
| 29 | By providing the necessary ‘ junk ’ ( boxes , washing-up liquid bottles etc. ) to make our craft activities less costly . |
| 30 | Britain experiences less violent crime than many comparable countries . |