Example sentences of "less obvious and " in BNC.
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| 1 | On valley and hillsides , moundiness is less obvious and the more even surface is broken by stream gullies . |
| 2 | A less obvious and regrettably a more common example is where students are presented throughout the course with bodies of facts and procedures to be remembered and applied as faithfully as possible ; then in the final testing they are assessed on their ability to apply their knowledge and skills to new situations , or to explain , justify and discuss the reasons behind procedures . |
| 3 | If there is a theoretical argument justifying the view that microelectronics is a job-killer , it is less obvious and more complex than usually supposed , and by no means universally accepted . |
| 4 | Such personalized gender biases are less obvious and therefore even more difficult for feminists to deal with than those in conventional psychological method . |
| 5 | Far less obvious and less easy to rebut than the imperialism of Henty and Ballantyne , Marryat 's good-humoured , unselfconscious , professional patriotism is the ultimate strength of his work . |
| 6 | But the major writer , where his imagination is responsive to environments , has an influence that is both less obvious and more profound , since it transforms awareness of the significance of domestic contexts . |
| 7 | While not for one moment can the appalling state of housing in many of the major English cities be denied , there is no reason to believe that the problems of poor housing and underprivilege are any less acute among the rural as opposed to the urban poor : they are merely less obvious and less concentrated in numbers . |
| 8 | [ She goes on to note that ] … the needs of squeezing religions into manageable units can easily lead to unhelpful emphases on the superficial , the external and the exotic on the one hand , or the conservative , the established and the institutional in religious traditions on the other hand , at the expense of such less obvious and less accessible factors as the profound interiority of faith , the mundane ordinariness of discipleship , and the radical reforming zeal within traditions which challenges them to continually renew themselves . |
| 9 | Fairley is especially concerned with the difference between " literal " readers , who do not go beyond the surface meaning of the text , and " figurative " readers , who seem to have internalised a number of conventions of reading which enable them to reach less obvious and more satisfactory interpretative results . |