Example sentences of "less [adj] [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It covers such a wide variety of conditions that it is less specific than a weather forecast . |
| 2 | Their seven-wicket victory with seven overs to spare was only marginally less emphatic than a crushing 10-wicket triumph in the second match on Saturday . |
| 3 | There is a disarming lightness to the popular No. 7 ( its Mazurka affiliation charmingly highlighted ) , but No. 10 in C sharp minor is much less assured than a few years earlier ; No. 15 commences sadly off pitch and No. 16 is less ‘ driven ’ or trenchant than in the earlier and greatly celebrated account . |
| 4 | An absolute prohibition against assignment is less popular than a qualified prohibition which requires a landlord not to withhold consent unreasonably . |
| 5 | The unspoken and unacceptable reality is that when I do decide to have a baby , my bosses will regard me as less promotable than a childless woman or a man . ’ |
| 6 | Why should a boat be less social than a caravan , for heaven 's sake ? |
| 7 | After the 1979 Conservative victory , it is less clear that a party will suffer if it advocates policies which are a clear break with the past . |
| 8 | And a couple is less conspicuous than a man on his own … ’ |
| 9 | Therefore spreads are usually less risky than a position in a single futures contract . |
| 10 | For lips that stick , and a crisper outline ( less ageing than a fuzzy one ) , outline lips with lip pencil in a shade that matches your lipstick . |
| 11 | Such differences , though they may be less marked when a child is 14 , may yet be considerable . |
| 12 | Their only problem is that they do not convey the feeling and atmosphere of a site and often appear less authentic than a skilful reconstruction drawing . |
| 13 | However , a child who forms attachments from a young age with a wide group of people , rather than just close family , feels less insecure than a baby who has been close to only one or two people , so try to introduce her to as many people as possible , right from the beginning . |
| 14 | A ‘ hot ’ lava , freshly-erupted , is a great deal less viscous than a ‘ cold ’ one , and it can therefore flow faster . |
| 15 | It was a time when strikes were being blamed for most of the country 's ills , and Lord Hodson said : ‘ The injury and suffering caused by strike action is very often widespread as well as devastating and a threat to strike would be expected to be certainly no less serious than a threat of violence . ’ |
| 16 | A reverberant place such as a church , empty hall or tiled kitchen is less easy than a room with some sound-absorbent furnishings , such as heavy curtains and thick carpet . |
| 17 | She puts her intellect to work on why she 's been such a pain for the last 50 years , and ends up a little less smug and a lot less married . |
| 18 | The BTU tax also has the advantage of being less unpopular than a petrol tax , partly because it is almost impossible to understand . |
| 19 | Relations between the communist states had for some time been less amicable than a common dedication to working-class interests might have suggested . |
| 20 | Ideally joined by a bar ( less fiddly than a chain ) , they should feature masonic crests , ‘ the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes ’ perhaps being best , in accordance with the rule that the more eccentric these groups sound , the duller they are . |
| 21 | They are less welcome than a troop of ticket inspectors . |
| 22 | What if the arguments conjured up to justify a war were false , or a king 's motives reflected factors ( naked ambition , for instance ) less worthy than a seeking after justice ? |
| 23 | And with the meditations , less perishable than a willow leaf , |
| 24 | Quota sampling is obviously less costly than a simple random sample partly because no sampling frame is needed and no call-backs to unlocated sample members are involved . |
| 25 | The demand for cheap beef arose when North American beef soared in price , — cattle ranching in South America is far less costly and a lucrative business deal for wealthy landowners . |
| 26 | This was actually caused by an integrated circuit failure , though an intermittent fault such as this is less likely than a total failure . |
| 27 | A child in the vitamin A group was significantly less likely than a placebo-treated child to have made several clinic visits ( p=0.019 ) ; for example children in the vitamin A group were 27% ( 95% CI 4–45% ) less likely to have attended the clinic 3 or more times during a 4-month dosing interval . |
| 28 | The power of the microcomputer , with its television screen , in affecting the classroom situation is such that it is less likely that a teacher can bend a unit away from its designer 's intentions towards his own style and purpose than is the case with printed material . |
| 29 | The UK claims it is making its contribution to reducing emissions by imposing value added tax ( VAT ) on domestic fuel ; the government says the VAT measures make it less likely that a carbon tax will be needed to meet the target of stabilising CO2 emissions at 1990 levels by 2000 . |
| 30 | Professor Woolf argues that an older person purchasing a walking frame in order to remain on his or her feet is no less natural than a parent purchasing something similar for an infant learning to walk . |