Example sentences of "[noun sg] less [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , it occurs to me to ask is Islam less strict in Kuwait than it is in Saudi Arabia , where , I gather , women are not allowed to drive cars , thieves will have their hands cut off and things like that . |
| 2 | Japan 's Ministry of Posts & Telecommunications is considering constructing optical communications networks as public projects , in recognition that competition has made companies such as Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp less willing to invest heavily in construction — NTT and other common carriers would be permitted to operate the networks , which the Ministry hopes would be used for broadcasting too . |
| 3 | Field trials have for many years been concerned with finding a clone less susceptible to frost and this was initially seen as a way of upgrading some of the frost-prone vineyards of the Marne Valley which are traditionally planted with the hardier Pinot Meunier . |
| 4 | All of this it seemed might make the Prince less unacceptable to France and so would give the candidacy an air of reasonableness to the rest of Europe . |
| 5 | If this does not help , the doctor may be able to give an injection to dry up secretions and make the noise less upsetting . |
| 6 | Sentencing McPherson , the judge , Lord Cameron , said he accepted that McPherson had been in some part less responsible for the violence to Mr O'Donnell that evening , but added : ‘ Nevertheless you played a full part in luring him into the hands of those who were responsible for repeated acts of a bizarre and terrible character upon him . ’ |
| 7 | The competition for Western financial aid to Eastern Europe had also increased , making Yugoslavia 's situation as a state favoured by the West less relevant . |
| 8 | The truth was of course less simple . |
| 9 | Scientific discovery and the disillusionment of the twentieth century made the future look less interesting than the nature of time itself . |
| 10 | So what is required is a constriction of awareness which will remove some of the bad feeling and/or make the predicament look less severe or less intractable . |
| 11 | Yet we can not help but feel that perhaps the establishment should be just a little bit less obdurate when confronted by new ideas . |
| 12 | Yes , they get , they 're a bit less committed . |
| 13 | The Health and Safety at Work Act has made us rather more concerned about smells and bangs and the dangers these cause , so perhaps life is a little bit less smelly than it was , perhaps a little less exciting , but it ought to be a little longer too . |
| 14 | In some ways , in fact , it 's a bit less worthwhile , in that you tend not to think about social matters , people 's characters and things like that . |
| 15 | It was n't much , and they would take it in their stride , no doubt , but apart from the fact these revenge raids certainly did upset his Tormentors a little , making life and their cruel purpose just that little bit less easy for them , the greatest effect was on him . |
| 16 | It did n't look er odd it looked okay so that would make me a bit more confident I think a bit less self conscious . |
| 17 | Or I could have been a bit less awkward , and said , you just give me the positive one . |
| 18 | I 'll come and call you when things are a bit less hectic . ’ |
| 19 | The International Art Expo is a bit less international |
| 20 | He might be a bit less philosophical about that one , in that it was , it was great , it was catchable was n't it ? |
| 21 | Some day it might be a bit less other days it will be more thirty umm but on an average we like to work out the girls to about thirty to twenty five a day . |
| 22 | I left just a bit less naive than when I 'd started , and a lot more confused ; in the end I fitted neither with the industrious working-class student body ( which was a large proportion ) nor with the socially confident middle class who did less work but had better cultural camouflage to disguise their deficiencies . |
| 23 | And you find more or more or less forceful ways of of giving directives , and one way of making some things perhaps a bit less forceful is to put a tag question on cos it 's sort of adding a sort of pleading note on to it , to ask somebody to do it , I think . |
| 24 | ‘ After they had gone ( they left one evening after dark , Constanza having said that there was one thing Michel refused to put on me — he will have to learn to be a bit less scrupulous , poor lamb — so that she would have to do it , and it was not to let on : ‘ Tell our friends I 've gone to Italy to look after my papa ; as for Michel , he 's God knows where , you do n't know , it 's nobody 's business and they 're used to his comings and goings . ’ |
| 25 | The CFC-free aerosol is a bit less bad than one which spews out CFCs — that 's one step forward . |
| 26 | Many may have discovered that the trouble-free lifestyle they had planned has turned out to be a good bit less well-regulated and tidy than they had expected or intended it to be . |
| 27 | A lot of couples involved with our singles ministry have taken the challenge of ‘ hands-off ’ courting and have since thanked us for it , even though at the time they wondered if they could not get by with something a bit less conservative . |
| 28 | Admittedly they 're a little bit less streamlined but if you 're going to say that that makes a serious difference |
| 29 | The repeal of s39 does not reduce the impact of this decision ( since partnership with unqualified persons remains for the moment prohibited by the rules of the profession ) , though the new procedures for the issue and replacement of practising certificates may make accidental disqualification less common . |
| 30 | Opinion polls had begun to indicate that the deep recession affecting the economy made Bush 's re-election less certain than had hitherto been thought . |