Example sentences of "less [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean David 's talking about the leaf stem I could n't care less about the leaf stem I 'm with most people I understand that Councillor Barry Jackson 's offered to look after it in his garden cos he likes it and he 's welcome to do that . |
| 2 | But the real job ( rather than the ideal version articulated by younger men ) is , as we shall see , much less about the application of science and technology to the measurement and control of pollution than the use of negotiating and bargaining skills to secure compliance . |
| 3 | Because we 're definitely paying less , I 'm paying thirty five P less for a packet of instant than I was even eighteen months ago . |
| 4 | It has to tell the world openly that the mid-range machine is its chosen contender as the central repository for the 21st century , and above all make convincing its commitment to the AS/400 by rushing out top end machines that are much bigger than the present top model while instituting a crash programme to slash the costs of manufacture — and then slash them again , work out how to make money out of the machine while charging much less for the software — and making all the remaining System 36 users an offer they ca n't refuse to convert to the AS/400 , even if every sale to that base is a dead loss to IBM . |
| 5 | He was a true friend to sport , and cared no less for the manner in which success was achieved than for success itself . |
| 6 | He expected no less for the children in the classroom . |
| 7 | And if I 'm saying I really want to do less for the cracker bar now , because that was hard pushed . |
| 8 | Though eclipsed by his elder brother , Thomas ( later first Marquis of Wharton , q.v. ) , and cutting less of a dash than his two other brothers , William ( by his father 's third marriage ) , the wit and gallant , slain in a duel , and Henry , the soldier politician who died young while campaigning in Ireland , Goodwin Wharton nevertheless played no small part in post-1688 Whig politics . |
| 9 | In 1946 , a ‘ religious friend ’ told him that he , Levi , belonged to an elect : ‘ I , the non-believer , and even less of a believer after the season of Auschwitz , was a person touched by Grace , a saved man . ’ |
| 10 | Hobbes , on the other hand , is more of a theorist , less of a methodologist than Bacon : his distinction between experiential and ratiocinative knowledge is considered and explicitly made . |
| 11 | That 's why the very un-Hollywood editing ( the German prisoners , after very little discussion are summarily disposed of ) comes as less of a shock than it ordinarily would have . |
| 12 | If she has older brothers and sisters , then the idea of sharing will be less of a shock for her , although even in these cases children cling to those things they think of as theirs . |
| 13 | It would be a less beautiful route than the one I had taken earlier , but it was shorter and would be less of a haul . |
| 14 | His flat is less of a wreck now . |
| 15 | Detection is less of a difficulty for certain other regulatory agents , such as housing inspectors ( Mileski , 1971 ) or consumer protection officers ( Cranston , 1979 ) , whose enforcement domain is peopled with complainants . |
| 16 | This is the time of year when the end of last season 's growth slides imperceptibly into the beginning of the next 's , with more or less of a halt depending on the weather . |
| 17 | Last year , at the annual meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund , it was generally agreed that the US deficit was less of a threat because it was on a downward path . |
| 18 | Their place in a group dominated by the Catholics no doubt reflected the regent 's desire for consent from Catholic and protestant alike ; and as yet she saw little reason to fear the Protestants , who must still have seemed to her far less of a threat than the strong Huguenot party in France . |
| 19 | Because of this , suffering is less of a threat to happiness , while it spells death to the pleasure-seeking life . |
| 20 | Even less of a threat is the huge tarantula or bird-eating spider . |
| 21 | And now there was the threat of this libel action , less of a threat than a certainty . |
| 22 | Give the Conservatives the credit of having played a very weak hand with great expertise , but they are still less of a threat to Labour than the SNP , now second in 35 seats . |
| 23 | Though a topic for voluble discourse , it was less of a threat to the contented than the taxes that would have reduced it . |
| 24 | Even FD Roosevelt , he reminds us , had to tell lies about his fiscal intentions in order to get elected ( it is a pity the Labour Party did not see the proofs of this book ) ; and the famous fiscal deficit of the US , ‘ though a topic of voluble discourse ’ , was ‘ less of a threat to the contented than the taxes that would have reduced it ’ . |
| 25 | The NCC survey found that external hacking posed much less of a threat to systems than malicious acts by staff or ex-staff , who were responsible for almost a third of all logical security failures and breaches . |
| 26 | External hacking poses much less of a threat than malicious acts by staff or ex-staff . |
| 27 | However , if demand falls collective action poses less of a threat , and may even be beneficial . |
| 28 | Conservationists argue that they are far less of a threat to stocks of fish such as salmon than water diversion schemes and bad logging practices . |
| 29 | ‘ At a time when Scotland 's supply of quality players is limited , McCoist can make this tie less of a banana skin than it looks , ’ said Roxburgh , who freely admits he would rather his team were playing Germany , Italy or the Netherlands . |
| 30 | The real problem is that if solicitors prepare the written brief , there is much less of a case for denying them the right of audience to argue that brief before the court . |