Example sentences of "[verb] less " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Hardy came to declare that no book of his had ever contained less of himself , it is difficult not to see in Jude a symbolic statement of all that he had found most disappointing in his life and in the human condition in general . |
| 2 | A powerful sitter may also impose a requirement that the portrait looks impressive , so that an amused spectator can look for traces of the consequent power struggle in a picture ; Queen Elizabeth I of England was as firm as the Emperor Augustus about the principle that a ruler 's actual appearance matters less than the imprint of authority . |
| 3 | It matters less and less as we move into an enjoyable account derived from a vocational puller-down of statues of the Shah and his father . |
| 4 | The fact that a baby is weaned early , according to this argument , matters less than the reason for this decision : whether it reflects a cultural norm , or stems from the mother 's revulsion at physical intimacy , or expresses an urge to hurry the child towards independence . |
| 5 | Traditional agency theory then suggests that the more risk-averse be given contracts which force them to bear less of the risk involved in the venture . |
| 6 | Hence , given that they are held to bear less risk , we should expect a lower return . |
| 7 | Warm water holds less oxygen than cold water . |
| 8 | Daily grooming is to be recommended for most breeds , and it can be helpful to allow a puppy to become used to the sensation , even though its coat will probably need less attention than that of an adult dog . |
| 9 | It logically follows from this that a fit person should need less sleep than an unfit one , or a man than a woman , or a grown-up than a child . |
| 10 | But then you come to the problem , erm , because for ninety four five , erm , the formula suggests that we would need less staff , that might seem a bit odd but the , the reason is that if you do indeed bring your target times down , then the amount of work which your passing over into the next year is er considerably less , erm than the amount of work which you passed over into this year , |
| 11 | If it yielded less ( more ) extra utility than its 10 purchase price , the last consumer would buy less ( more ) films . |
| 12 | With full information about the dangers , people would buy less of the drug . |
| 13 | The advantages of traditional materials are obvious : they permit an individual to build his own house ; involve less capital ; can be built in greater variety and according to each housebuilder 's choice ; and , unlike a high-rise building , do not need expensive construction materials like cement and steel . |
| 14 | they involve less direction from the tutor . |
| 15 | If I had chosen to keep any of the more sensitive invertebrates I would not consider less than a 30 gallon capacity system . |
| 16 | If we are to study the genetics of quantitative characters we should aim to know less than the exact genotype responsible for each phenotype . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , in line with Sag & Hankamer 's suggestions , once the attention of a literate person is directed to the examples in our corpus , they often appear less than fully acceptable . |
| 18 | the ability to vary the amount of horizontal space occupied by each character according to its width so that , for example , ‘ i's occupy less space than ‘ m 's . |
| 19 | They must provide cover for absent colleagues for up to three days , though this can be extended for a teacher whose classroom teaching duties occupy less than three-quarters of his or her working week , or where it is not ‘ reasonably practical ’ for a supply teacher to be found to replace the absent colleague . |
| 20 | In such circumstances , the armour needed by each individual provided less cover and was less cumbersome and cheaper than that required by the mounted knight . |
| 21 | The results , publishes in Child Development , showed that mothers of the facially deformed babies provided less stimulation for their child than mothers of normal children , and were less involved with them . |
| 22 | This threat posed less of a distraction to the horses than I would have hoped . |
| 23 | In almost every respect , they posed less of a menace than the civil and racial violence which he advocated and assisted as Mosley 's Director of Propaganda . |
| 24 | He instructed the Chiefs of Staff to examine ways of discharging Britain 's military commitments more economically , absorbing less manpower and reducing dollar expenditure . |
| 25 | If a deal goes ahead , the debtor gets more money , or owes less debt ; it can pay back more of every remaining unit of debt than before the deal . |
| 26 | That a hospital lets babies with minimal brains and no conscious potential die would occasion less hostility , and many might even approve , than if mongoloids were dealt a similar fate . |
| 27 | Neither is an overexcited horse likely to win a showjumping contest , because at every jump he is likely to get more and more excited and to concentrate less and less on what he is meant to be doing . |
| 28 | For example , it may be the practice on your ward to obtain less information from patients who are admitted as day cases than those who are to stay in hospital for some time and often it is not practical to conduct any sort of interview with someone who is admitted as an emergency . |
| 29 | I wonder if she has yet worked out that for every douse she has to pull less load ; probably not , or she would be pissing on the wood . |
| 30 | This was because the higher pressures and temperatures required more advanced materials engineering , which was often only worthwhile if there were also economies of scale ( the 200MW sets with advanced steam conditions built later , for example , used less than half as much steel per MW as the simple 30MW sets the BEA were installing ) . |