Example sentences of "less [adj] than [art] [noun] [noun] " 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 | Practice is , of course , even less representative than the law reports , but it does have the advantage of providing examples of the use of expert determination where there were no recorded disputes . |
| 4 | Contrary to our knowledge today , this last was considered to be less civilized than the bronze age that preceded it . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Starting in 1982 , an Autumn Statement has been made , but it is less detailed than the Procedure Committee had intended . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | For instance , the end part of the diphthong /ai/ is less prominent than the beginning part . |
| 10 | These claims are less vague than the logic claim , because a question or a speaking turn is easy enough to identify with precision . |
| 11 | I mean th there 's one little phrase that I picked out of Good which o regarding the , the pension regulator and he actually used the word that he envisages the pension regulator and I now quote will be less pro-active than the F S A regulators . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Women referred by GPs were more neurotic and less psychotic than the comparison groups , and had more social problems . |
| 15 | The BTU tax also has the advantage of being less unpopular than a petrol tax , partly because it is almost impossible to understand . |
| 16 | And with the meditations , less perishable than a willow leaf , |
| 17 | Buyers are much less likely than the sector average to buy a Clio because they ‘ always buy the same ’ . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It is less stringent than the spin selection rule , partly because the mechanisms for getting round it are more effective . |
| 20 | Several transports were sent to convey us to the camp , and they were certainly less basic than the RAF ones we were used to , and when we arrived at the aircraft hangar where the jollifications were being held , it was ablaze with coloured lights and swarming with people , and a seven piece band was being very loud on the platform . |
| 21 | Nicholas and Uvarov flattered themselves , however , if they believed that the western provinces were becoming less intractable than the Congress Kingdom . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It was small and less noisy than the farm tractor which he had sometimes watched from the edge of the primrose wood at home . |
| 24 | Some people will want to quarrel with this analysis ; but for our present purposes its accuracy is less important than the use Miller makes of it . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The most important ingredient in the construction stage is time but , although this is sometimes a source of worry at the beginning , in practice it is often found that this stage is less time-consuming than the planning stages . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | John Major 's Val Doonican acts may have been adjudged less successful than the soapbox orations which have so cheered up both his party and himself . |
| 29 | As for the controversy , he says : ‘ They are certainly less shocking than the Schnittke cadenzas for the Beethoven Violin Concerto . |
| 30 | 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 . |