Example sentences of "less [adj] [noun sg] than the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where it 's two males , male applicant and a male interviewer , and the prospective employee has a less prestigious accent than the interviewer , so it 's quite likely that the prospective employee would shift his accent towards a more that of the employer , due to his relative need of approval so much more than vice versa . |
| 2 | While the film was a less personal project than The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp ( 1943 ) or A Matter of Life and Death ( 1946 ) , or even the subsequent The Red Shoes , the intensity of Powell 's personal relationships with both Kerr and Byron ( not at the same time ) communicates itself to the film , and its hothouse atmosphere loses nothing by the lack of wide open spaces . |
| 3 | This places the solicitor in a less favourable position than the businessman who possesses greater opportunities to exploit a commercial relationship , possibly to the detriment of the other party . |
| 4 | The body of the Commission 's report , which was written by recently recruited geographer Dr John Innes , took a less bullish line than the press release . |
| 5 | Sutton , to the alarm of Pilger and Hayling , had lined up John Hetherington of the Daily Star , a scarcely less provocative choice than the Sun . |
| 6 | The rectum has a less robust lining than the vagina and is more easily damaged . |
| 7 | ( a ) Contents of the Register The Central Land Charges Register , like the Local Land Charges Register , was established under the Land Charges Act 1925 for the purpose of protecting various interests of a less parochial nature than the Local Land Charges Registers . |
| 8 | However , Cook expresses the view that although the research on the validity of personality tests has proved disappointing , they have no less predictive validity than the interview and they have the advantage of being cost-effective and standardised . |
| 9 | Resolving the question of whether palaeocurrent flow in Torridonian Scotland was predominantly westerly or northerly is important to those interested in Scotland 's geological history , but has less external interest than the solution of the genetic code problem had for all biologists . |
| 10 | It implies a less passive consumer than the market research model with the emphasis on market preferences and consumers ' rights . |
| 11 | The growth of wheat , the birth of a lamb , the movement of clouds , put him in awe of nature : the locomotive he sees as man 's response : the switch and throttle are his magic wands … the girl may come to the science lesson with a less eager curiosity than the boy , but she too will need to feel at home with machinery . |