Example sentences of "less [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are purchased in brine and are less pungent and slightly sweeter than true peppercorns . |
| 2 | By comparison , badger aroma is much less pungent and less acrid , though it can be quite strong in the vicinity of the sett , where the occupants have repeatedly marked both the ground and each other . |
| 3 | In the 1968 ( Ministry of Health 1968 ) proposals , the boards were envisaged as operating as small executive management teams , with the senior administrator acting as managing director and with far less professional and medical input into decision-making . |
| 4 | Modern industrial society with its superior ‘ organic ’ solidarity could dispense with these primitive aids to cohesion and develop the more civilized , less emotional and , above all , rational legal processes which Durkheim took to be characteristic of progress . |
| 5 | She felt much less used and abused when she could distinguish whether his hugs were genuine offers of warmth and love towards her or whether they were his means of asking for something just for himself . |
| 6 | When he attended the Armistice Day service in his donkey jacket , walking stick , and gammy leg , he provoked not only the predictable snorts from the Respectably Dressed camp , but also a less coherent and actually much nastier howling from stylocracy — he looked so awful . |
| 7 | Important as they were for historians of the future , and as a source for scholarship generally , public records generated less political and academic controversy then than later . |
| 8 | They have informed me that the seraglio contains beautiful apartments , more or less spacious and splendid according to the rank and income of the females . |
| 9 | Members of informal groups in work organizations usually have vague group objectives , and are less cohesive and behave erratically . |
| 10 | Although the relationship is canonical in both directions — a canonical finger is a part of a hand , and a canonical hand has fingers- hand is in one sense the less specific and hence less complex term , the term which carries less semantic information . |
| 11 | Electrocardiographic screening , while even cheaper and more widely available , is less specific and sensitive . |
| 12 | In most cases , the kind of predictions about successive words which are possible from the preceding context are much less specific and would select a very large class of words , which would be of little help in discriminating between possible candidates . |
| 13 | However , the specificity of this antibody for PSC , as opposed to ulcerative colitis , is unclear and a recent study has shown that the immunofluorescent technique is less specific and less sensitive than previously demonstrated by Duerr et al . |
| 14 | Although generically similar to CD-A , CD-ROM technology is far less friendly and accessible . |
| 15 | All this is now due to change and it is , not surprisingly , the smaller , less profitable and traditionally-run tenanted houses that are in the front line for disposal . |
| 16 | Passenger services will be trickier to privatise , both because they are less profitable and because , unlike wagons , passengers have votes . |
| 17 | Fresh fruit and raw carrots are an alternative and represent healthier eating but they are perishable , less profitable and need some preparation before sale . |
| 18 | Structural adjustment can make the internal market less profitable and thus less attractive to those prospective buyers seeking to exploit the local market . |
| 19 | He also investigated the effects of the uptick rule when the future is underpriced , and found that arbitrage involving short positions in shares was less profitable and much riskier than arbitrage with a long share position . |
| 20 | Over the last two decades people have become increasingly adventurous , less prejudiced and more knowledgeable about travel . |
| 21 | EVEN LESS memorable and vivid Gordon Jackson characterisation than class traitor Hudson . |
| 22 | The fact that there is a difference comes as no surprise , after all , a completely empty , uneventful drive through a junction would be expected to be both less memorable and less risky than an occasion when the junction was full of traffic . |
| 23 | ‘ The market is less liquid and market-makers quote wider prices . |
| 24 | Those with excess liquidity wish to become less liquid and lend money at a return they would otherwise not receive , to those with insufficient liquidity ; those with insufficient liquidity are prepared to pay for funds . |
| 25 | This phenomenon was particularly impressive in the north , which had hitherto been far less advanced and progressive than the southern , Mediterranean countries , the seats of ancient empires . |
| 26 | Up to the autumn of 1960 the underlying divergences between himself and Debré had not prevented the two of them from working together closely ; after de Gaulle 's speech in November 1960 , the policy became less collaborative and more than ever the exclusive domain of the presidency . |
| 27 | One investigator suggested that this was because women whose husbands were in work were better nourished , less strained and therefore more efficient workers . |
| 28 | This need not reduce the rigour of the professional disciplines demanded , but it would make the qualifications less technical and inward-looking . |
| 29 | The course will usually be less technical and more flowing than for pure showjumping and different penalties are incurred : |
| 30 | The most important of these points are three in number , and I have expressed them for the sake of clarity in less technical and exact terminology than Halliday uses . |