Example sentences of "less [adj] than [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peel-off masks are more gentle but less cleansing than clay . |
| 2 | Copper in contrast was not durable enough for big editions , and where its effects were desired it was increasingly replaced by steel ; but this was much less used than wood for works of science . |
| 3 | We may say , then , that line A is less precise , less specific than line B. Line A is not swallowed up in line B , however ; it is not the case that once we have line B we can dispense with line A. Rather , line B provides the clue or the context within which the uncertainty of line A is resolved . |
| 4 | Gel is less sticky than mousse and works better with curly hair . |
| 5 | Although VAT is slightly progressive , it is less progressive than income tax . |
| 6 | Shoemaker asserts that Tunguska-like explosions should be a common fate of small bolides entering the terrestrial atmosphere , provided only that they are less strong than iron objects . |
| 7 | definitely less cruel than hunting because the animal is chased and er , what it 's heart is doing while it 's being chased and it 's , really is the idea 's quite horrendous to me ! |
| 8 | And for both , morbidity statistics are less accessible and less reliable than mortality data . |
| 9 | An intellectual amusement resides in the interplay between what for simplicity 's sake we can represent as just two contrasting ranges of marked and unmarked language — although arse is undoubtedly less marked than fuck . |
| 10 | In a sense , just as out and out dementia is less interesting than neurosis and eccentricity , so the music of these episodes , with their rather obvious distortions and wrong attributions of earlier themes , is less gripping than the Passacaglia , where Grimes was still somewhat in control of his faculties . |
| 11 | Inevitably skills analysis is more general and less definitive than task analysis although many of the same procedures for extracting evidence might be used . |
| 12 | EASTER remains almost the best time for a family gathering ; far less demanding than Christmas , and more cheering , with the rest of spring and summer to look forward to . |
| 13 | EASTER remains almost the best time for a family gathering ; far less demanding than Christmas , and more cheering , with the rest of spring and summer to look forward to . |
| 14 | Leading on from this , a more general point is that where the objective of the operation is rather broader than profit maximization , shareholder control is probably far less appropriate than state control ( see , for example , Baumol , 1984 ) . |
| 15 | I sit in front of the television and impress my girl-friend by pointing out all the faults of the players ; it is much more comfortable and less dangerous than participation , and my girl-friend thinks I am wonderful . |
| 16 | Lust was far less dangerous than love . |
| 17 | There is evidence to suggest that victims of these other forms of serious sexual assault regard them as no less serious than rape ( narrowly defined ) . |
| 18 | It was true that those concerned with the enforcement of the law in this country were apprehensive that the abolition of the death penalty would be followed by an increase in crimes of violence ; but their predecessors had in the past opposed for the same reason the abolition of the death penalty for offences less serious than murder and their apprehensions had not in the event proved justified . |
| 19 | Training in singing appears to be less systematised than training in voice production . |
| 20 | The first is the extent to which constituents of opaque expressions are ‘ full ’ semantic indicators : clearly blackbird , with two full indicators , is less opaque than ladybird , with one partial indicator only ( — bird ) , which in turn is less opaque than red herring or in a brown study , neither of which contains any indicators at all . |
| 21 | It 's an easy , it 's a lot less fiddly than slash and then trying to find the R and the E and then enter . |
| 22 | Although nephrite is less hard than jadeite on this scale , the tight felting of its fibrous crystals makes it exceptionally tough . |
| 23 | The spectrum of questions for which answers were sought took in everything from specifics , like ‘ Are dialogue sequences less compelling than action scenes ? ’ to abstracts querying the very suspension of disbelief principle thought essential to any form of drama viewing — especially children 's viewing . |
| 24 | Such investments , though less obvious than product development costs , provide equally stiff barriers to entry . |
| 25 | It 's less costly than surgery . |
| 26 | Prevention is always more sensible and less costly than cure . |
| 27 | Fossil fuel tax less costly than acid rain , according to Greenpeace |
| 28 | School chairs tend to be even less comfortable than school beds , and I found it impossible to sit still for long — a fact which did n't endear me to irritable teachers , especially those who also resented my ‘ witty ’ ( i.e. irrelevant ) remarks . |
| 29 | It has been suggested that now that unions ( and not merely officials ) may in certain circumstances be liable in damages for unlawful industrial action it is more likely that an employer will pursue his claim to a full trial and there is less reason to refuse an interlocutory injunction in trade dispute cases ; but it has also been said that the ‘ right to strike ’ is a valuable ( indeed essential ) element in the system of collective bargaining and that it ‘ should not be rendered less valuable than Parliament intended by too fanciful or ingenious a view of what might develop into a serious issue to be tried . ’ |
| 30 | The most significant finding of these reports was of the over-representation of black youths on mode B schemes — or on schemes that were less likely than mode A schemes to lead to a job . |