Example sentences of "much less [adj] [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much less embarrassing than a kissogram the perfect fantasy served up on a plate . |
| 2 | This is much less subtle than the characterization of strategy given in Bourdieu 's Outline of a Theory of Practice , and is consistent with a simplification of the concept of the object . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The structure illustrated in ( c ) , where the agent is specified in a passive clause , is much less frequent than the structure illustrated in ( b ) , where the agent is left unspecified . |
| 6 | In contrast with some of the other areas discussed , these are much less tax-driven than a matter of commercial advantage . |
| 7 | Real skins are much less coherent than the stereotype . |
| 8 | They were much less gentle than the water-buffalo , which spend most of their lives doing nothing , wallowing up to their ears in mudpools , while pampered and scrubbed by the little boys who are assigned to look after them from birth . |
| 9 | She writes : ‘ The continued running of such a business is much less satisfying than the creation and setting up of it ’ , so now that it is sold her next challenge is the restoration of an ‘ old Montgomeryshire half-timbered gentleman 's residence and its apothecary 's herb-garden , dating from 1720 … |
| 10 | In this milieu , academic achievement by girls was considered much less important than the development of the quality called ‘ character' , which meant the potential to become decent , responsible officers ' wives , pillars of whatever community into which their marriages would take them , pleasant to look at but not disruptively decorative . |
| 11 | Buyers are much less likely than the sector average to buy a Clio because they ‘ always buy the same ’ . |