Example sentences of "less [adj] than [art] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore spreads are usually less risky than a position in a single futures contract . |
| 2 | The prose which preoccupied Milton during the Commonwealth and Protectorate periods was to be seen as separate and certainly intrinsically less interesting than the poetry in which Parker portrays Milton participating in some universalised European humanism . |
| 3 | Moreover , reform is ruled out because either the new second chamber would be less democratic than the Commons in which case it should not be able to delay legislation , or if it was just as democratic then there is no point in having two chambers , the more so since there is the potential problem of constitutional deadlock between them . |
| 4 | These masks were rather less elaborate than the ones in the workroom . |
| 5 | Most claims about markedness involve comparisons across languages ; for example , a particular word order might turn out to be much commoner , less unexpected than the alternatives in the languages of the world or of a certain language family . |
| 6 | The infected subjects were also less accurate than the controls in the categoric search task ( 88% v 93% ; p<0.05 ) . |