Example sentences of "less [adj] than the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The actual sound ambience of this recording is less dry than the sort of sound that Philips is prepared to settle for in the same hall , and it is refreshing to hear Nicholas McGegan 's fine cast of soloists use the hall 's natural resonance to give the distinct impression that they are enjoying themselves and confirming , to one listener at least , that an important part of enjoying oneself is showing off . |
| 2 | For example , a child with language which is less advanced than the language of other children of that age would be regarded as having delayed language ; in contrast , children whose language stands out because it is deficient when compared with the way in which they perform on other social and intellectual tasks may be regarded as having a language deficit . |
| 3 | The point , which I find persuasive , is that an appeal court which will be less full-time than the Court of Justice will be less imbued with the centralist perspective , and thus in a better position to maintain an objectivity as between the interests of the EEC and those of the nation state . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | However , one must weigh this potential change in content and focus against the benefits of rendering a smooth , natural translation in contexts where the use of the passive for instance would be stylistically less acceptable than the use of the active or an alternative structure in the target language . |
| 6 | And hope is less clear than the dew of the morn |
| 7 | The shock to the patient was regarded as less grave than the risk of being precipitated unprepared into the next world . |
| 8 | Many married women whose husbands sign on for the family find themselves forced to seek work in the black economy in order to make ends meet ; this is often seen as less risky than the possibility of their husbands being caught . |
| 9 | Thoughts of the bills returning to Gomez 's alligator-skin billfold were unpleasant , but less unpleasant than the thought of being shot in the head . |
| 10 | Yet the statements of attainment are in most cases much less detailed than the sequences of behavioural objectives in use in many special schools . |
| 11 | Evidence to support this speculation is available from countries such as japan where the gender imbalance is much less marked than the countries of western Europe . |
| 12 | Black , by this time at the laboratories of Smith , Kline , and French , led a team which achieved results no less interesting than the discovery of beta-blockers , and of equal practical importance . |
| 13 | The truth is that they 're so often used as fast turnover test beds for review equipment , and new fishkeeping ideas , that they are probably less interesting than the majority of our readers ' tanks . |
| 14 | Scientific discovery and the disillusionment of the twentieth century made the future look less interesting than the nature of time itself . |
| 15 | The stark events of A Fine Boy for Killing are no more and no less authentic than the events of Showell Styles 's novels or those of O'Brian and Forester . |
| 16 | However , the example of private education demonstrates that absence of single-peakedness is far from pathological , and once we move to two dimensions the corresponding conditions are extremely restrictive : they are ‘ probably not significantly less restrictive than the condition of complete unanimity ’ ( Kramer , 1973 , p. 296 ) . |
| 17 | The travels of Sir Charles Grandison are censured by his Harriet with the remark that the sight of ruins on the Tour , which most gentlemen ( including himself ) then made of Europe , is actually less instructive than the knowledge of them to be gained from books . |
| 18 | The room was considerably less cluttered than the apartments of other members of the Royal Family . |
| 19 | Firstly , their income is less likely than the rest of the population to come from earnings from employment ; and more likely to be derived from pensions from the state or from past employers or from savings . |
| 20 | It emerged from Romanesque into a specific style , different from but no less fine than the works of the Renaissance . |
| 21 | There was a real bond of friendship and understanding between many of the great churchmen of this age and leading warriors ; it would be a nice point to decide whether the happiness of St Margaret 's marriage to King Malcolm of Scotland ( see p. 210 ) was more or less remarkable than the depth of St Anselm 's friendship with Hugh of Avranches , the first earl of Chester , the savage hammer of the Welsh . |
| 22 | It sounds an unsavoury task , but it is less unhealthy than the job of ‘ night soil ’ collectors who in many countries spend their nights emptying buckets . |
| 23 | Systems of formal warnings to control absence also seem to be less effective than the terms of the remuneration scheme . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | After a study of academic enterprise in the US , Matthew Bullock of Barclays Bank , concludes that specific ‘ technology transfer mechanisms ’ are less important than the willingness of universities to allow their academics to work for industry ‘ on the side ’ . |
| 26 | The question of who can sue is less important than the question of who will sue . |
| 27 | In some areas the size of the shell is less important than the thickness of the shell . |
| 28 | The guidelines include a list of entry qualifications which for the most part are similar to those granting entry to the Council 's teacher-training courses for would-be school teachers ; in that respect , they do not accord with NATFHE 's belief that formal entry requirements are less important than the achievement of terminal standards . |
| 29 | But in a pragmatist society he would have to predict whether the judges would be likely to consider his case as one in which the virtues of predictability were less important than the substance of the law , and whether , if they thought substance more important , they would think a decision for him better or worse for the community . |
| 30 | The exact chronology is , however , less important than the recording of a definite Saxon tradition , the inauguration of a new political unit . |