Example sentences of "less and [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , the more tranquillizers are used , the older and less effective the plunger becomes , therefore , gradually , the same dose of tablets becomes less and less effective . |
| 2 | ‘ However , it can also make you disorientated and you start to apply for less and less appropriate jobs as you get desperate . |
| 3 | The Leeds role was initially , and to some extent remained , broader than either of these , though it tended to become less and less distinguishable from that of curriculum leader . |
| 4 | This situation will change in due course as the younger generation becomes less and less involved in traditional family businesses and educational standards continue to improve , but for the foreseeable future job opportunities will exist for most nationalities in those parts of the Middle East where local populations are insufficient to meet the labour requirements of commerce and industry . |
| 5 | Prices will be decided by such factors as the supply/demand relationship , the cost of recovery as the search for fossil fuels moves to less and less hospitable regions and as the shift to more highly processed secondary fuels such as substitute natural gas and synthetic liquid continues . |
| 6 | However , while it is possible to discount the efficiency consequences at low rates of tax , it becomes less and less easy to do so as the rates of tax get higher . |
| 7 | As they grow , the ‘ natural ’ option becomes less and less available . |
| 8 | Is Horace , at the close of a poem published only a few years before the end of his own life , talking at and through " Torquatus " , talking to Rome , to the culture whose imperial destiny was beginning to seem less and less convincing and whose traditional virtues had become a matter of pious rhetoric ? |
| 9 | As you become older you meet less and less new people therefore making less friends . |
| 10 | ‘ In following Christ 's commands a person will feel less and less capable . ’ |
| 11 | It becomes less and less feasible to equate the relative contraction of the industrial proletariat with the relative expansion of the ‘ middle class ’ . |
| 12 | Throughout this short book it has been suggested that the rise of semi-literacy and the dispersal of libraries are inter-related phenomena , the one feeding off the other to create a climate in which books and their contents become less and less important . |
| 13 | In Europe , we want to create circumstances in which nuclear deterrence becomes less and less significant as the principles of common security are accepted and applied . |
| 14 | And each of them becomes less and less funny if they are too closely followed by a third . |
| 15 | As the value of the dinar sinks , the interest paid by the final borrowers in dinars becomes less and less adequate to pay the foreign exchange interest . |
| 16 | Many of these terms make sense in a closely defined context , but as we move , with them , towards general sociological statements , they become less and less satisfactory . |
| 17 | I could have said that their way of life would slowly become less and less glamorous , more and more morally debilitating . |
| 18 | This condition is usually associated with bulbs which have naturalised and , having been inadequately maintained , they gradually become less and less vigorous and do not have sufficient energy to produce flowers . |
| 19 | As he began to speak , he seemed to grow less and less aware of his audience and continually turned his head , as though listening to some sound , audible only to himself from the entrance tunnel behind him . |
| 20 | The amendment to the MacMahon Act might have saved Britain money and time in establishing her nuclear deterrent , but , as each year passed , the deterrent would become less and less independent as Britain 's own research establishments were bypassed , and more and more of its sub-equipments and components came from America . |
| 21 | The premium and the insurance however gradually came to look less and less desirable ; and when the nexus between them was finally broken in the Second World War , the fiction would be abandoned . |
| 22 | As a greater range of individual views prevails , so the poverty of policy choices made by a virtually self-selected group of politicians will become less and less acceptable . |
| 23 | But they become less and less likely to make further sacrifices , until , when they are literally on their last legs , they can not be persuaded to give up any more limbs , no matter how hard the killer grabs hold of them . |
| 24 | The scale of many more recent industrial disputes , together with the manner in which they have been regarded by workers , employers and the state , have made explanations based on pluralism seem less and less plausible . |
| 25 | Because of the variety of possibilities at each move , the ability to predict who will win from a given move becomes less and less reliable , the longer the game has to run after that move . |
| 26 | Often this process is detrimental as the child starts to eat less and less savoury food . |