Example sentences of "less [adj] [verb] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Okay we 'll make it even even more less messy looking and have Y equals |
| 2 | Quick sponge cake is best made the day before using ( or earlier ) , as the cake will then be much easier and less messy to cut and shape . |
| 3 | Or is the current wave of hooliganism in British football merely a continuation of old traditions , which we now are less willing to tolerate and more anxious to report ? |
| 4 | Hong Kong manufacturers depend almost entirely on export markets , many of which have been less willing to forgive and forget . |
| 5 | Surely , investors will be less willing to buy and sell shares if they think that they may soon become the ‘ victims ’ of insider dealing . |
| 6 | Pinot Noir , Burgundy 's top red grape , is less willing to travel and has not been entirely amenable to efforts to tame it in Australia . |
| 7 | Feminist psychologists ' concentration on interviews or autobiographical writings of , for instance , lesbian women , or even the insertion of extracts from such work into quantitative studies , arrogates an interpretative power to these methodological forms which is less easy to define and challenge than the power of objective method . |
| 8 | It would be less easy to avoid and it would be an incentive to save . |
| 9 | A more complex rule , linking monetary policy to last period 's unemployment rate or balance of payments deficit or whatever , may be less easy to understand and more subject to error because of , for example , inaccuracies in the balance of payments figures . |
| 10 | You must take a more mature , philosophical view of the world and you 'll be less quick to condemn and more tolerant of others . |
| 11 | Some large firms have demonstrated a preference for female workers , often on the grounds of their supposed nimble fingers though , in reality , usually because they can be paid less and are less likely to unionise and form any opposition to management . |
| 12 | Benedict , a Californian now based in Hertford , has given the 405 low-volume side-tanks to make the boat less likely to invert and easier to right . |
| 13 | Inter-departmental disputes are less likely to arise and cooperation between managers is more easily achievable in the absence of ‘ political ’ in-fighting . |
| 14 | The cover has to be disturbed and scratched open by frequent hoeing ; a claw hoe is ideal for this , as it is less likely to snag and damage the root stems . |
| 15 | Another explanation for the relatively high proportion of those in residential homes reported to be bad tempered could be that relatives , friends or neighbours were less likely to report or perceive the person who died as being bad tempered than staff of institutions . |
| 16 | As expected , they are also less likely to own or to be buying their house , less likely to be living in council accommodation and more likely to be renting furnished accommodation . |
| 17 | In general , the lower an individual 's class position , the more likely he or she is to leave school at the minimum leaving age and the less likely to aspire and strive for a highly rewarded position . |
| 18 | For example , students who have had a full-time job prior to coming to university are less likely to withdraw or fail , while conversely , students whose homes are close to university are more likely to become non-graduates . |
| 19 | There is already substantial evidence to show that the wives of unemployed claimants are less likely to work and more likely to stop working once their husbands are unemployed , than other women . |
| 20 | If on the other hand the consequences are neutral or unpleasant , then the behaviour is less likely to occur and an alternative will be found . |
| 21 | Even if the quarrel is not started by you at all , you will be less able to cope and respond appropriately if you are already slightly under the weather . |
| 22 | Are they saying that housewives are less able to understand and resist the dangers than other workers , or that all oppressed workers should renounce pay as the way to liberation ? |
| 23 | This is due to their large size , the complexity and time required to install such a system and the fact that a machine bound system tends to be less flexible to change and re-layout . |
| 24 | This means that a child who is exposed to violent models may be less inclined to halt or inhibit aggressive actions when given the opportunity . |
| 25 | And he seemed more alert than when he had left , less inclined to shrug and yawn and leave everything to her . |
| 26 | The wheat is less reliable , both in yield and quality , being much slower to get away in a cold spring and less certain to ripen and harden into high-quality baking grain . |
| 27 | Where such culturally based courses have provoked resistance , race awareness training has given way to courses that are less inward looking but which are designed to promote specific practical anti-racist goals . |
| 28 | Thicker films , while less liable to crinkle and curl on porous or high relief specimens , are much more difficult to mount flat , and give lower contrast and microscopic resolution . |
| 29 | Or will the people discover the lie and then be less ready to accept and be guided by his rulings than if he had been more open from the start ? |