Example sentences of "less [adj] than [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 31 | However , the time of year is less important than the time of the shift . |
| 32 | The longstanding drift of people to the south is now less important than the movement of population out from the cities to surrounding smaller towns and to rural areas . |
| 33 | The same applies to the general deterrent argument : its effectiveness depends on whether the penalty for murder affects the calculations of potential killers at all , and , if it does , whether life imprisonment is seen as significantly more or less severe than the alternative of a long , fixed-term sentence . |
| 34 | Although it is less damaging than the removal of bulbs and plants , consistent seed snatching can still effectively wipe out a species from a locality . |
| 35 | Very soon we were to be concerned with matters less peaceful than the conduct of our kitchens . |
| 36 | For contemporaries , the charm must have been less impressive than the sense of half-realised ambitions . |
| 37 | Here outright oppression and denial of rights is less troublesome than the benevolence of a personally known and trusted employer ; a quiet word with the boss will often be preferable to calling in a more remote and impersonal organization to settle any differences . |
| 38 | Here the problem is less difficult than the estimation of absolute figures , because further kinds of evidence can be employed in the search for an answer . |
| 39 | As both W. G. Hoskins and W. E. Tate have shown , the English village as we know it is in its essentials a product of developments not much less recent than the growth of industrial towns and cities . |
| 40 | The Raman scattering due to different vibrations of a particular molecule is generally less variable than the intensity of the different IR bands , but the general level of intensity of Raman spectra varies from molecule to molecule much more than that of IR spectra . |
| 41 | In Labov 's view , for example , " the locus of language is in the community or group , and … the speech of any social group will be less variable than the speech of any individual . " |
| 42 | To remain near the screens , he and Elaine had to stand close to the strange woman called Lacuna , but even Lacuna seemed less threatening than the jungle of lines and forms that were still proliferating everywhere else in the room . |
| 43 | The obvious achievements — radar , jet propulsion , guided missiles , and the atomic bomb which brought the war to a sudden and unexpectedly early end at a price only less horrible than the continuation of war — depended on much basic research in physics and chemistry , particularly in the fields of radioactivity and nuclear energy , and of electronics . |
| 44 | In practice the length of a statute of limitations is perhaps less significant than the content of the duty of diligence imposed upon purchasers of works of art . |
| 45 | Rates reported by Arthur Young on his various Tours around 1770 suggest that regional variations were less significant than the type of cloth or the fineness of the yarn ( see Table 7.6 ) . |
| 46 | According to this perspective , interdependence between states is less significant than the dependence of all states , to a greater or lesser extent , on the investment decisions of transnational capital . |
| 47 | Historically , it is less significant than the passing of the Single European Act in 1986 . |
| 48 | He had had a charter drawn up , which presumably contained a boundary clause , but this seems to have been less significant than the authority of the witnesses . |
| 49 | But the qualified disapproval of foreign governments is less significant than the loss of Western commercial confidence . |