Example sentences of "less and [adv] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem is that fight-or-flight behaviours are less and less appropriate in today 's civilized society and this is how the damage is done . |
| 2 | Consequently many students who find themselves unable to accept this definition of themselves , who have difficulty in constructing an identity as ‘ physicists ’ or ‘ physical scientists ’ , find that they are outside of the department , that they are gradually less and less successful in getting to grips with the subject . |
| 3 | I think it depends what members of society we 're talking about , right , if people are educated and they have a way forward to improve their understanding , then they become less and less involved with a |
| 4 | This latter fact simply means that as we go along the chain of correlated consequences to larger and larger systems the links in the chain become tighter and tighter , less and less subject to quantum mechanical " creakiness ' . |
| 5 | For some time , Pool has been becoming less and less capable of performing the calculations necessary to create a private universe . ’ |
| 6 | As the leavening of hardened veterans became sparser and sparser , so the pathetic eighteen-year-olds fresh from the parade grounds in the Fatherland showed themselves less and less capable of standing up to the remorseless demands of the Verdun fighting . |
| 7 | But the fact remains that current-account balances are becoming less and less helpful as a guide to economic performance , let alone as a goal for economic policy . |
| 8 | It will develop operations in other countries ; it will seek to develop downstream subsidiaries ; it will become increasingly self-reliant and all this will make it less and less relevant to the responsibilities of a government ministry . |
| 9 | It gets more and more ballooned out and it just ca It gets less and less and less good as a pump . |
| 10 | This is becoming less and less practicable as a philosophy of operation , and I believe absolutely that in the future it will be the company that conforms to the individual that attracts and motivates the best people . |
| 11 | The great tragedy of modern music is that , despite an evolution of the musical language to a state of extreme refinement and complexity , the results are less and less significant from a human point of view . |
| 12 | As the base of the Japanese economy becomes more and more industrial and commercial , less and less dependent on the support of the rural sector , and as the shrinking agricultural sector in its turn has less to offer to the rest of the economy , this mutual interdependence between the two sectors will diminish still further . |
| 13 | And Harold Brookes Baker , editor of Burke 's Peerage said : ‘ It is perfectly clear that Charles and Diana are less and less comfortable in each other 's company . |
| 14 | He had been monopolising her for most of the evening , or trying to , and she was growing less and less happy about it . |
| 15 | Earn outs are becoming less and less popular as the disadvantages often outweigh the advantages . |
| 16 | We become less and less aware of what our colleagues are doing in mathematics even . |
| 17 | As the Korean War eased , so the British became less and less sympathetic to the American desire to minimize East–West trade . |
| 18 | Have been growing less and less interested in titles that are other than purely descriptive . |
| 19 | the poor are less and less important to the reproduction of capital in their traditional role as the ‘ reserve army of labour ’ . |
| 20 | As the twentieth century progressed the family-owned firm became less and less important in British capitalism . |