Example sentences of "less of a [noun] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of this , suffering is less of a threat to happiness , while it spells death to the pleasure-seeking life . |
| 2 | The NCC survey found that external hacking posed much less of a threat to systems than malicious acts by staff or ex-staff , who were responsible for almost a third of all logical security failures and breaches . |
| 3 | Conservationists argue that they are far less of a threat to stocks of fish such as salmon than water diversion schemes and bad logging practices . |
| 4 | Full-time employment may be less of a deterrent to childbearing if mothers can pay for personal child care . |
| 5 | It was clear to The Times that bankruptcy was far less of a protection to creditors than a licence to dishonest traders to speculate with other persons ' property . |
| 6 | Yet Labour had not fought the election solely on a negative programme of hostility to Protection but on its socialist programme ; and the electors had given even less of a mandate to socialism than to Protection . |