Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] less [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 The Miami Cubans are flexing their wallets for the return to a country whose people are healthier , better educated and less racially divided than when the exiles left .
2 It was a remedy frequently recommended but less often applied .
3 This is easily said and less easily done , but it is not critical to the final working .
4 The other distinctions are relative rather than absolute ; for example , the subject matter may be more or less abstract , the audience may be very well known or less well known .
5 Those which lacked this essential source of strength were either impotent small ones on the fringes of the great political developments of the age , such as the Italian republics , or , in the case of some more important States , were notably less well governed and less effectively led than their neighbours and competitors .
6 And in the Lorenz equations , it is easier to make connections between apparently unrelated things than in less well known , less well studied and less well understood systems .
7 A parallel trend which has been widely perceived but less well documented is that of increasing numbers of authors per article .
8 This goes against the general trend of the rest of the survey ( which suggests that these groups are less well informed and less accurately informed about credit ) .
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