Example sentences of "[coord] is less " in BNC.
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| 1 | The image may have softened somewhat " or is less the subject of common gossip , but the old picture remains in the public mind and some of the derelictions continue but with more discretion . |
| 2 | But they are keen on the average private investor because he does not expect to have lunch once a quarter and is less likely to sell out during a takeover bid . |
| 3 | The overweight person , on the other hand , is usually not so mindful of internal sensations as a cue for eating or abstaining , and is less likely to take exercise as an antidote to excess indulgence . |
| 4 | Hay that has lost its colour has a lower nutritional value and is less palatable . |
| 5 | Indeed , because the oceans are heated from above , and warm water expands and is less dense than cold water , the warm water tends simply to sit on the surface , unless otherwise disturbed . |
| 6 | Understand and use transactional language effectively on occasions where the situation or topic requires more than one outcome and is less readily familiar to the pupils and/or their audience . |
| 7 | Platelet factor 4 ( PF4 ) , which also binds heparin , is even better at stopping angiogenesis in tissue cultures and is less toxic than protamine , Folkman says . |
| 8 | The Children Act 1989 is likely to require much more account to be taken of the children 's views and those of their parents and other interested parties , but it is a process which is still seen as difficult , and is less frequently carried out than is desirable . |
| 9 | Written language , on the other hand , makes such interpersonal functions less critical ; it can be conducted over time and space and is less subject to immediate feed-back . |
| 10 | This technique employs a more gradual fixation procedure and is less likely to produce broken preparations showing artefactual losses of chromosomes . |
| 11 | The Boltzmann machine may miss the best solution and climb a foothill , or be stuck on a knife edge ; but the genetic learner has a broader view of many possible states , and is less likely to be so caught . |
| 12 | This is the very reason a member of the steering group gave for becoming involved in the project : ‘ It gives me something else to do , gets me out of the factory [ adult training centre ] and is less boring . ’ |
| 13 | Young skin is not only thinner but also has fewer pigment cells and is less able to protect itself from the sun . |
| 14 | Saker always has paler crown and is less slender and rakish , but may otherwise be hard to distinguish . |
| 15 | Has a more guttural twittering call , and is less noisy . |
| 16 | It is resistant to black sigatoka and Panama disease and is less palatable to insects and to the root-eating nematodes that afflict plantations . |
| 17 | The differences in technology also mean that teletext is slower , has a smaller capacity and is less interactive than Prestel . |
| 18 | Hence amplifiers involving first-order networks are stable if the closing angle between plots of and is less than 12 dB per octave as crossover is approached . |
| 19 | The ultimate sanction a country can levy — nationalisation ( expropriation ) of operations is not unknown , but is less frequent than is sometimes believed . |
| 20 | Our body clock has adjusted readily enough to the delay in our life-style at the weekend ( remember that the free-running period is more than 24 hours ) , but is less easily advanced , as is required , on Sunday night and Monday morning ( see Chapter 2 ) . |
| 21 | Associative theorizing ( e.g. Wagner 1976 ) can deal well enough with the basic fact of context-specificity but is less comfortable with the other phenomena ( see also McLaren et al . |
| 22 | Strip grazing is used widely for cattle on kale , but is less popular with mixed stock or sheep on grass . |
| 23 | Australia has major coal , gas and uranium reserves but is less well endowed with oil . |
| 24 | For a librarian to ‘ screen ’ stock in this way is usually seen as standard library procedure in a library for children , but is less often accepted in relation to adult reading . |
| 25 | Dearlove 's approach shares some features with that of Cockburn , but is less directly Marxist influenced . |
| 26 | Rhodes , by focusing on shifts within the organizational structures of the state , is able to identify some reasons for longer-term stability , but is less able to explain the extent of change since the late 1960s . |
| 27 | It is likely that many of the remaining 13 cases could also have been resolved if focusing preferences had been applied weakly when appropriate ; in these cases , the discourse focus is typically a plausible referent , but is less plausible than one of the intrasentential candidates . |
| 28 | Manganese shortage is very similar to iron , but is less marked : the yellowing tendency is blotchy , margined and striped along the lesser veins . |
| 29 | The what's-in-it-for-me teacher who does his job adequately , but is less concerned with the standard of education . |
| 30 | Drug treatment requires less skill but is less effective . |