Example sentences of "[verb] and less [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The resultant comparison with housework persistently branded it as a less enjoyed and less enjoyable occupation . |
| 2 | If the police are to continue to exercise control over an increasingly pluralist society , which is better educated and less willing simply to accept any version of events handed out by the powerful , then it seems essential they should avoid scrutiny yet suggest they are totally accountable to the democratic ideal . |
| 3 | Both financial institutions and financial markets are in the main more regulated and less developed than those within the UK financial sector . |
| 4 | It is more likely that the types of crime committed by older people will be less noticed and less liable to be recorded in the criminal statistics . |
| 5 | Children who are alienated by parental rejection , disaffected by continuous and severe punishment , do not identify with their parents ' point of view when they are being disciplined , and are therefore less likely to agree with the criticism being made and less liable to ‘ internalize ’ the judgement . |
| 6 | 4 Think pink for a powerful lip colour that is easier to wear and less likely to run than dark colours . |
| 7 | Codes are less formal , more easily amended and less time-consuming to operate than legal provisions . |
| 8 | The NHS is assumed to benefit financially from reduced extra duty payments and reduced medicolegal costs as junior doctors would be ‘ better supervised and less exhausted . ’ |
| 9 | During a period of active mailing and amendment ( with the system providing version control and appropriate access and editing controls ) the record will be referenced by authorised users utilising both function based and less structured retrieval tools in the communal electronic record system . |
| 10 | Black juveniles are more likely to be prosecuted and less likely to be cautioned than white juveniles . |
| 11 | Black youth were more likely to be prosecuted and less likely to be cautioned than white youth . |
| 12 | We heard this sort of thing before , when Pontypool ruled the roost in the Seventies and Eighties , and the fact that there was more than an element of truth in it , that the complaints of others could be justified , served only to make the accused — Neath , just like Pontypool before them — become more introverted and less receptive . |
| 13 | Our mother was an East Riding woman and her regime was enlightened and less oppressive . |
| 14 | The resulting solutional forms tend to be rounded and less sharp-edged than those formed on bare rock . |
| 15 | Opposition to expenditure , on the other hand , was assumed to be diffused and less well-organized and so of less concern to elected representatives . |
| 16 | First , in an organisation with an all white or largely white workforce , network recruitment will help to ensure that this stays the case , particularly at a time when large numbers of white workers are unemployed and prepared to re-enter the comparatively poorly paid and less pleasant jobs they deserted in the past few years . |
| 17 | For example , the reduction in manufacturing jobs over the last decades in some high wage countries has forced workers to seek jobs in other less well paid and less secure sectors or , as has happened particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom , forced older workers displaced from traditional industries ( like mining and steel-making ) into permanent unemployment . |
| 18 | The extras here were harder to recruit and less cooperative than the enthusiasts back in Pennsylvania . |
| 19 | Another means of keeping contemporary teachers better informed and less parochial in outlook has been through a range of central and local government books and reports . |