Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [be] less [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are designed to be less restrictive than full safety helmets and are known as ‘ bump caps ’ . |
| 2 | Next year 's outlook for the banks is expected to be less cloudy . |
| 3 | Manufacturing , which had been the leading sector in 1989 , was expected to be less significant in 1990 , with a world fall in demand for computer hardware . |
| 4 | As in discourses of class , deviant subjects are expected to be less abstract and rational thinkers , and more emotional , sexual , and biologically determined . |
| 5 | Class bias might be expected to be less in the US , where tertiary education is less restricted and social class is often claimed to be less important . |
| 6 | ( The privately rented sector has low values for a number of reasons : it contains a larger non-married proportion , and the form of stock is often considered to be less suitable for childrearing . |
| 7 | Whilst in the case of certain types of racked goods in which continuous fuel surfaces do not exist , automatic roof venting may be considered to be less essential , in the extreme case it is of great importance . |
| 8 | Hydrochlorofluorocarbons , or HCFCs , break down more quickly in the stratosphere and are therefore considered to be less damaging to the ozone layer . |
| 9 | While applauding the women of anger , Miki was worried that it might mean that anyone who writes about anything less traumatic and violent is considered to be less important . |
| 10 | Since only a limited number of hypotheses could be tested prospectively , other potential risk factors , such as a previous history of slow ulcer healing , were tested exploratorily either because it was not felt necessary to confirm their reported effect on healing or because they were considered to be less important to ulcer healing . |
| 11 | Contrary to our knowledge today , this last was considered to be less civilized than the bronze age that preceded it . |
| 12 | 1991 , 27 1006 ) , of course I approve of the purpose of the Control of Pesticide Regulations ( 1986 ) and COSHH regulations , but it is a ridiculous consequence of the regulations that chemists are deemed to be less well able than commercial fruit growers , for example , to understand that the chemicals involved ‘ have the capacity to be potentially lethal if wrongfully mixed , applied and handled ’ . |
| 13 | One possible answer is that in periods of structural change major upheavals and dislocation are felt — a crisis is obvious — whereas in the intervening years changes occur smoothly and are felt to be less dramatic . |
| 14 | With lowered voice the vibrator could be felt to be less active , and the sound-level meter would show the lower volume of sound . |
| 15 | ( Active sportsmen — and active bandsmen ‘ too , for the companies encouraged the colliery bands — were felt to be less likely to engage in ‘ subversive ’ union and other activity , and inter-village rivalries were encouraged : Waller , 1983 , p. 197 , p. 208 . ) |
| 16 | This was undoubtedly due partly to the war and partly because the statutes contained criteria which were felt to be less justiciable : if the minister stated that a regulation concerning trademarks was necessary for securing the safety of the realm the court would not adjudicate upon this . |
| 17 | English family relationships are said to be less strong than those of Asians , but most English people would be deeply shocked if their grandmother or grandfather , coming to visit them , or their young brother or sister , was held in detention by people with quasi-police powers , accused of lying and then sent back ; or if their husband or wife , coming to join them after a long separation , was further delayed for years and then told that they were not the people they claimed to be and hence had no right to come at all . |
| 18 | Subjective assessments are said to be less acceptable , but I offer mine , nevertheless , drawn from my own studies of the literature of the project ( including one evaluation so far completed ) , from talks with project workers and brief visits to schools . |
| 19 | Considering this , the domain specific dictionaries can be said to be less reliable , and based on assumptions about the accurate identification of the domain that may not always be applicable . |
| 20 | Lord Greene M.R. 's distinction between purpose and relevancy both of which went to the scope of the discretionary power , and his substantive sense of unreasonableness , are said to be less clear and useful expressions of the same idea . |
| 21 | Opinions are seen to be less stable than values and relate to less important or transient issues . |
| 22 | Purchase of market share is seen to be less costly than establishing brands — and is quicker too . |
| 23 | Provoked killings are generally thought to be less heinous than unprovoked killings , and provocation has long been accepted as a ground for reducing to manslaughter a killing which would otherwise fulfil the definition of murder . |
| 24 | The programme is thought to be less successful in Zimbabwe , since the denser vegetation means that poachers may not be able to see that the animal has no horn until they have already shot it . |
| 25 | General Noriega tried to isolate opposition within the military after a similar coup attempt last year by promoting loyal officers to the important Strategic Military Council and General Staff , and retiring those thought to be less enthusiastic in their support of him . |
| 26 | However , n-gram techniques have been shown to be less effective for the present project than word-lookup methods , as they fail to exploit letter-level constraints to the same extent [ Wells , 1989 ] . |
| 27 | If it is to do this in a more precise , less trade-distorting way , it is bound to be less helpful to big and efficient farms than to small ones . |
| 28 | I think also that we should make clear that the nature of the Tests this year is understood to be less threatening etc. etc . |
| 29 | Central and Fife are understood to be less enthusiastic but agreed to support the idea . |
| 30 | In 307 cases the method used at conception was known to be less effective than one previously used by the same patient . |