Example sentences of "less [subord] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never less than thoroughly fascinating , the production is dominated by Ian McKellen 's extraordinary Iago , a performance which feels like a shifting palimpsest of impersonations . |
| 2 | But Downes appeared not to hear the supplementary questions , and Dixon nodded to the constable who stood at the door , the latter now making for the canteen on a less than wholly specific mission . |
| 3 | This second relationship arose from an ingenious cover-up to a less than wholly honest piece of political self-enrichment . |
| 4 | This might involve representing their position ( abilities , preferences , intentions ) in a way that is less than completely honest , or even , perhaps , downright dishonest . |
| 5 | His interests and habits had been too strictly and personally framed for him to be anything less than completely reliant on them . |
| 6 | The HEARSAY project [ Erman et al , 1980 ] used this architecture and has proved to be highly influential ( albeit less than completely successful ) as an example of collaboration between different levels of processing . |
| 7 | If the red sunset was anything to go by , those rocks would really have their work cut out next day to be anything less than either hot or sunny . |
| 8 | Evaluation may be somewhat subjective and less than mathematically accurate , but it must be attempted if the desired cycle of planning , implementation appraisal and replanning is to achieve its object of providing even better and more relevant training within the library . ’ |
| 9 | As in all business calculations , the cost of obtaining such information needs to be balanced against its benefits , ( and against the consequences of limiting the search to a point where the forecaster does not know whether the information foregone is more or less than marginally useful ) . |
| 10 | With a company which can make use of new technology , jobs are certainly put at risk by resisting , or less than enthusiastically supporting , new technology . |
| 11 | However , this suggests that it might be a good thing to prevent anyone being born who would be less than maximally happy ( on average , throughout his life ) since he would be lowering the average happiness by his existence . |
| 12 | These molecules , the ultimate source of information about what is going on at a specific time in a particular cell , are extremely labile chemically ( for example , to traces of alkaline detergent in less than scrupulously clean glassware ) and enzymatically ( to the ubiquitous ribonuclease ) . |
| 13 | To be fair , none of the players here is less than extremely competent , but there are moments when the piano tone appears monochrome or lacking in warmth . |
| 14 | Thus , while Tough 's work may provide some interesting ideas for dealing with functional aspects of spontaneous speech , it may be less than entirely satisfactory as a means of obtaining reliable and objective assessment information . |
| 15 | Such a move is less than entirely satisfactory because the relationship between the theory of competence and the data on which it is based ( ultimately intuitions about acceptability ) becomes abstract to a point where counter-examples to the theory may be explained away on an ad hoc basis , unless a systematic pragmatics has already been developed . |
| 16 | This satisfaction is relative , one or either may emerge less than entirely happy with the result . |
| 17 | If the flavour of his text so far is to be believed , Bozzy was as much a soldiering man as Coleridge , which is saying less than very little . |
| 18 | His playing is never less than very good , but he does occasionally tend to be a trifle straight-laced in the more contemplative works . |
| 19 | It had responsibility for two institutions within five miles of each other , both established for the same function and both less than half full . |
| 20 | Turning her head slightly she looked at the cut-glass decanter on the bedside table — it was a little less than half full , which meant that she had drunk three … no , four glasses of whisky at some time during the night . |
| 21 | are puzzled by the ice-house ; less than half full |
| 22 | The Z88 will send the XON character when the receive buffer has been cleared to less than half full . |
| 23 | However , there is theoretical evidence that the Martian exposure to asteroids was higher over the last few 1000 Ma than in more recent times , which scales the ages down such that all but the more heavily cratered terrain is less than about 2000 Ma old . |
| 24 | However , theoretical and experimental studies of the accretional processes show that it is unlikely that a body with the low mass of the Moon could have accreted in less than about 10 Ma . |
| 25 | Although , for the most part , we are not considering all alternatives , there is such a striking difference in this development for Pr greater than or less than about 10 that a single illustration would be inadequate . |
| 26 | Following the 86th OPEC Conference , Air Vice-Marshal Ginandjar Kartasasmita , the Indonesian Minister of Mines and Energy , commented on Nov. 30 that OPEC output in the first half of 1990 would probably be not less than about 22,500,000 bpd , and that the 22,086,000 bpd ceiling agreed for that period reflected a pragmatic approach which " assumed overproduction " . |
| 27 | All I can say at the moment is not less than about six hours , not more than a couple of days . " |
| 28 | Calculations made by Don N. Page , then of the California Institute of Technology , and me , based on measurements of the cosmic background of gamma radiation made by the satellite SAS-2 , show that the average density of primordial black holes in the universe must be less than about two hundred per cubic light-year . |
| 29 | As one would expect , the Reynolds number range depends on the length/diameter ratio of the pipe ( and periodic transition does not occur at all when this ratio is less than about 60 ) . |
| 30 | Comparisons with previous records showed an extensive decline along the chalk cliffs , where Walpole-Bond recorded never less than about 30 pairs , and nearly 100 in 1919 , but the survey found only 10 pairs . |