Example sentences of "less [adj] [noun sg] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deputy Head ( Staff ) : ‘ I discern less professional commitment than 3 years ago … incentives lacking ? … opportunities not there ? ’ |
| 2 | However , the conferences turned out to carry less political weight than had been expected . |
| 3 | It was published at the end of 1944 and had far less political impact than his report . |
| 4 | The Black Prince was to show that he was a man of considerable military flair but rather less political sensitivity than his father , and that he was capable of adopting a harsh and inflexible approach in government which would have augured ill had he ever become king . |
| 5 | At least 54 other party supporters , including several members of parliament , were injured , but it was a far less bloody day than authorities had feared it might be . |
| 6 | He thought he could talk his way out of this easily enough surrounded by educated people of a less prejudiced kind than Dr Kingsley . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Her disadvantages are : I. That she has less technical skill than a man and is not so useful all round . |
| 9 | In time , and under the influence of Sir Donald Cameron , a man of obscure origin and exceptional ability who had known the delights neither of DO-hood nor of public school , Indirect Rule began to acquire a less exotic coloration and a less inward-looking character than it had had in its glorious beginnings in Northern Nigeria . |
| 10 | It was a far less sedate procession than we had imagined . |
| 11 | Obviously , they would receive less parental attention than children from smaller families . |
| 12 | Unfortunately , a diagnosis of psychosomatic illness is often arrived at by a much shorter and less strenuous route than this , particularly with female patients , who tend to be perceived as more ‘ nervy ’ . |
| 13 | It was considered the less discreditable way than a commission of bankruptcy , said Thomas Gisborne . |
| 14 | Having led a far less narrow life than Anne , Joan could imagine only too well . |
| 15 | Engraving is like translating ; it has its own idiom , and skilled engravers became expert at transforming finished drawings or amateur sketches into plates , though engraving is a less rich language than drawing . |
| 16 | John Plaw 's design in 1800 for a cottage or small farmhouse , ‘ Intended for a Gentleman in the New Forest … as an object to be seen from his Mansion ’ ( Fig. 25 ) , has a much less extensive landscape than that of Blaise Castle in mind , but it is typical of many at about the turn of the century . |
| 17 | The latter would be subject to less extensive review than would tribunals and other administrative institutions . |
| 18 | He is a less subtle draughtsman than some , but many of his cup-interiors , like this , are beautifully composed . |
| 19 | The focal points of British academic life were , of course , the universities of Oxford and Cambridge , traditionally the cornerstones of the established social elite , and the critical examination of British society ( in such areas as inequality , the distribution of power , the basis of industrial conflict , and so on ) was perhaps a less acceptable enterprise than the socially and politically ‘ safer ’ study of unfamiliar cultures . |
| 20 | It was a less lively face than her sister 's because it was more turned in , more contemplative , less concerned with the things of this world . |
| 21 | If you have been following a normal varied British pattern of eating you have probably been consuming less dietary fibre than you need for health protection , but it is unlikely that you are deficient in minerals and vitamins . |
| 22 | Indeed , it is quite difficult to find nations who eat less dietary fibre than the British , apart from the Swedes ( 14g daily ) and Masai warriors , who are thought to eat practically none ! |
| 23 | On close inspection , several of the demonstrations of a dissociation between latent inhibition and habituation turn out to be of less theoretical significance than they first seemed . |
| 24 | This type of organisation may be epitomised by early sixth-century settlements whose cemeteries reveal less social differentiation than later ones . |
| 25 | Since women in general have less social prestige than men , this in itself tends to reinforce negative attitudes to the elderly . |
| 26 | Since women have , in general , less social control than men , this psychologization affects them particularly strongly . |
| 27 | In this book , that means more analytical and less narrative material than there would have been in a book written half a century ago . |
| 28 | The result of 18 months work in London and at the Cherry House , ‘ Homebrew ’ is a more mature , less attitudinous record than the first . |
| 29 | In this connection it is notable that Russian conductors seem to enjoy a less conspicuous advantage than usual over their Western counterparts — Rostropovich on Teldec , Maxim Shostakovich on Collins Classics and Ashkenazy on Decca all fail to pace the structure convincingly . |
| 30 | But Pippin escaped , returned to Aquitaine , and forced Louis to withdraw across the Loire " in less dignified fashion than was suitable " , taking Charles with him . |