Example sentences of "less [adj] [conj] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some , the lobefins , developed armour but in the process became considerably less agile than their softer compatriots . |
| 2 | Calculations suggests that a planar lithiomethane molecule would only be 34 kcal mol-1 less stable than its tetrahedral form . |
| 3 | It was not long before the administration in practice became less dogmatic and less impulsive than its public rhetoric and even its diplomacy suggested . |
| 4 | Given the welter of competing ideas on the subject ( the European Community has recently adopted a slightly weaker measure , while securities firms outside the EC often operate under different rules than those governing banks ) , its 1993 proposals are less likely than its 1988 rules to find ready acceptance . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , when Henry V died in 1422 , his fleet was already less useful than its royal founder had hoped . |
| 6 | There is a lot of evidence that unemployed people tend to be less healthy than their employed counterparts . |
| 7 | Midhurst and Petworth were actually less affluent than their respective market areas . |
| 8 | LIFFE 's other international products , based on US T-bonds and eurodollars , have been markedly less buoyant than its European products since 1988 and 1989 respectively . |
| 9 | This relevance makes the material strongly motivating — here is an example of the way you will need to use English in a month 's time — and therefore the quality of the recording is less important than its immediate relevance . |
| 10 | In the eyes of many yeomen and labourers , the principles of either side were far less important than their economic menace . |
| 11 | The proportion of women in higher education has risen sharply in recent decades — one of the most visible gains in the egalitarian struggle — although in practice young female school-leavers are still less qualified than their male counterparts ( and this signifies , in this country , a truly parlous state of readiness for adult occupations ) ; while in the teaching profession itself , women have yet to achieve anything like parity at the higher levels , as college heads , directors of departments and university professors . |
| 12 | Private securities are also harder to sell in Europe because investors there are less adventurous than their American cousins . |
| 13 | These cattle are much less domesticated than their mortal counterparts although , unlike the malignant fairy water-horse EACH-UISGE , they will remain loyal to humans if treated well . |
| 14 | Nowadays , enjoys his outings with and her children who he has more or less adopted as his own grandchildren . |
| 15 | This small study does , however , suggest that disabled professionals are no less capable than their able-bodied colleagues and may have unique assets to bring to these professions . |
| 16 | Moreover the United Provinces showed themselves throughout the later decades of the century notably less welcoming than their southern neighbours to ideas of penal reform of the kind now being put forward by Beccaria and others . |
| 17 | Systems coping with cursive script are fewer and on the whole less accurate than their unconnected character counterparts because recognition of cursive script is much more difficult . |
| 18 | These sulphate esters of bile acids are usually less toxic than their unesterified parent substances and are eliminated more rapidly through faeces and urine so that the organism can be efficiently detoxified in the case of cholestasis . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , there 's no point in it being so beautiful if you ca n't ever go out in it because it 's raining , ’ said Betty , revealing a childish streak in her character which Lydia found rather less appealing than her habitual bossiness . |
| 20 | The phonographer had dressed himself in clothes that were less foppish than his usual attire . |
| 21 | After the relative quiescence of the working class since the late 1840s these new manifestations engendered fears that respectable workers might become less co-operative if their real grievances were not palliated . |
| 22 | Our workforce is significantly less well-educated than our principal competitors ' . |
| 23 | Is Horace , at the close of a poem published only a few years before the end of his own life , talking at and through " Torquatus " , talking to Rome , to the culture whose imperial destiny was beginning to seem less and less convincing and whose traditional virtues had become a matter of pious rhetoric ? |
| 24 | In almost all countries , state-owned enterprises are far less efficient than their private counterparts ; governments , shielded from market pressures , are often careless and profligate investors . |
| 25 | Indeed , in political terms Die-hard conservatism proved to be even less relevant than its pre-war namesake . |
| 26 | They also believe their reviews to be less thorough than their female colleagues and believe more strongly that reviews require more help and advice from outsiders . |
| 27 | Yet it should be remembered that the school-leaving age was not actually raised until after the Second World War and that the suggestion that they should receive secondary education was tainted by the official assumption that the children of the working class were innately less intelligent than their middle-class brethren . |
| 28 | Like the novel we read , Gael 's novel of the same name is a ‘ philosophic fantasy ’ ( 9 ) , but it appears to be even less realistic than its real-life double ; it is described as a disquisition on the nature of reality with characters that flit in and out of existence . |
| 29 | Judged as a plan for macroeconomic stability , the programme is less bad than its many critics claim . |