Example sentences of "less [adj] [subord] [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Bryan Gould is generally rated less European than the Shadow Chancellor , Mr John Smith ; and Mr Gerald Kaufman , the Shadow Foreign Secretary , has swung round from gut anti-Europeanism to a conviction that powerful central institutions are unavoidable — and Britain should play its full part . |
| 2 | It covers such a wide variety of conditions that it is less specific than a weather forecast . |
| 3 | Contrary to our knowledge today , this last was considered to be less civilized than the bronze age that preceded it . |
| 4 | Of course the Amsterdam incident was less grave than the Heysel disaster , which cost 39 lives and caused all English clubs to be suspended indefinitely . |
| 5 | It is unexplained why the radiometer readings in Bands 6 and 7 are lower in the second series , when the illumination is greater , but this was taken as grist to the mill of the idea that the radiometer method would probably be less reliable than the imaging method . |
| 6 | Starting in 1982 , an Autumn Statement has been made , but it is less detailed than the Procedure Committee had intended . |
| 7 | The degree of suffering involved varies according to the temperament of the individual ; but it is bound to be no less tormenting than the hair shirt of the penitent . |
| 8 | For instance , the end part of the diphthong /ai/ is less prominent than the beginning part . |
| 9 | These claims are less vague than the logic claim , because a question or a speaking turn is easy enough to identify with precision . |
| 10 | Being less official than the Review Panel and the Institute 's Practice Regulation Directorate , it was better able , in a firm but cooperative style as an Institute committee and speaking member to member , quietly to ‘ promote ’ and ‘ encourage ’ the adoption of the highest technical standards . |
| 11 | A characteristic two pages of the text are given to Corot 's landscapes , five pictures being cited , though the reader is less fortunate than the lecture audience , as only two are illustrated . |
| 12 | The BTU tax also has the advantage of being less unpopular than a petrol tax , partly because it is almost impossible to understand . |
| 13 | And with the meditations , less perishable than a willow leaf , |
| 14 | Buyers are much less likely than the sector average to buy a Clio because they ‘ always buy the same ’ . |
| 15 | Berni Miller , chief executive of the Farm Holiday Bureau , says she finds the report encouraging and feels that it broadly reflects the way the industry round the country is moving at the moment , although business in other regions is less seasonal than the West Country . |
| 16 | It is less stringent than the spin selection rule , partly because the mechanisms for getting round it are more effective . |
| 17 | Nicholas and Uvarov flattered themselves , however , if they believed that the western provinces were becoming less intractable than the Congress Kingdom . |
| 18 | This attitude , especially in ‘ Sophia 's ’ case , may owe something to class-distinction , that is , a duke beating a duchess with a neck of mutton might prove less illustrative than a journeyman tailor doing such a thing to his wife . |
| 19 | It was small and less noisy than the farm tractor which he had sometimes watched from the edge of the primrose wood at home . |
| 20 | Environmental groups are concerned that the new department will be less capable than the White House Council on Environmental Quality , which Clinton wants to disband , of enforcing the National Environmental Protection Act and mediating disputes between federal agencies over environmental issues . |
| 21 | Litter from battery hen farms is unsuitable for the plants and though turkey litter was tried last Christmas it proved much less successful than the chicken fuel . |
| 22 | Early on in the running of the clinic it had been found that treatment with house dust 200 alone was less effective and less long-lasting if the avoidance programme was not also undertaken , but it was not possible , from the nature of the study , to assess what proportion of the benefit was attributable to each measure . |
| 23 | It 's less common than a beef tapeworm , but more dangerous , because its larvae will settle into almost any part of the body , including eyes . |
| 24 | Darwin argued that the study of embryonic stages was important for working out these relationships because the embryo would be less affected than the adult form by the adaptive modifications upon which evolution was based . |
| 25 | This seemed to Preston only a degree or so less deplorable than a tube system inhabited by ghouls . |
| 26 | The massacre of the Alamo is less audience-grabbing than a Vietnam village scorched in napalm . |
| 27 | The tawny glass is slightly less tapered than the vintage glass ( above ) to emphasise the perfumes of wood-aged port . |