Example sentences of "to have less " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new comprehensive schools , educationalists complained , seemed to have less social mixing than the old grammar schools had done . |
| 2 | Ms Li said : ‘ I do n't know if it 's possible to have less confidence in the future than people already have , but I 'm certain it will decrease confidence in the British Government . ’ |
| 3 | But the earlier propaganda image of a ‘ human ’ and even ‘ family ’ Hitler , coming from the people , sharing its worries and cares , and understanding ‘ the little man ’ seemed to have less and less to do with reality . |
| 4 | Quite understandably , the Commission objected to this procedure , which made UK tapwater appear to have less lead in it than the consumer experiences . |
| 5 | The analysis associated with the Name of the Father , castration and the Oedipal seems to me to have less purchase in thinking television than it has had for cinema . |
| 6 | More homogeneous action and control subgroups can therefore be sensible choice since one would expect those with less advanced organic brain syndrome who are well supported at home , to have less need of the Home Support Project . |
| 7 | Old grievances and resentments tumbled out , but in the light of day turned out to have less power than when they 'd been hidden away . |
| 8 | The old arc contrasted with the young in a number of ways , for example in their attachment to tradition , access to opportunities , churchgoing or even self-control ( the young are presumed to have less than the old ) . |
| 9 | The whole incident made the short cut longer than the long cut but in time we reached the approach to the camp , much to the relief of Hassan who seemed to have less and less faith in the Second Son 's navigation . |
| 10 | You may not have behaved too badly under the circumstances ( though we all have a limit to the length of our inner fuse ) ; but how much of the conflict was contributed by the part of you over which you seem to have less control , the fire down below , the lesser-disciplined arena of your own strong inner responses ? |
| 11 | He was going to have less than a sensational report to make to his captain , Van Gelder reflected . |
| 12 | ‘ They recommended it to the Department of Employment but were told that things had been tightened up because of a Bulgarian footballer who was signed by Ipswich Town and then found to have less international caps than at first thought . |
| 13 | The powerful local government trade unions were likely to have less influence with private contractors than with local authorities ( Walsh 1989:33 — 4 ) . |
| 14 | They were , therefore , more likely to have a regular partner , to have less contact with former friends , and to be spending the greatest proportion of their time fulfilling a traditional domestic role . |
| 15 | But now it 's my time in the sun , and that seems to mean that Oliver 's going to have less fun for a bit . |
| 16 | But they seemed to have less , do n't misunderstand me , I 'm not class conscious , but it was a different class of person . |
| 17 | Despite their prestige , they seem to have less to offer the private client than licensed dealers . |
| 18 | The disabled child — particularly one who is severely disabled , either physically or mentally — may labour under a distorted upbringing which adversely affects the development of relationship capacity ; he or she is likely to have less opportunity for peer relationships and the process of sexual and quasi-sexual learning which takes place between children ; there will be much less opportunity in later life for sexual partnership or marriage ; and so on . |
| 19 | Disconcertingly , the human world appears to have less reality for him , if anything , than the world of buildings and objects . |
| 20 | Such reductions might be marginal and therefore the enhancement tended to have less impact than when it was used for cross-school initiatives . |
| 21 | And you tend to have less deadwood on a diagonal spreadsheet . |
| 22 | It used to have less unemployment than the regional or national average . |
| 23 | So public employees can not be said to have less of an incentive to be efficient or a greater incentive to pursue non-pecuniary rewards . |
| 24 | I always thought I had a good appetite , but I remember being at a college feast once at Cambridge , where they had seven or eight courses and the elderly dons seemed to have less trouble than anyone else getting through it . |
| 25 | Those at the exiled Court became hopelessly out of touch with political realities in post-Revolutionary England ; many of them were living in the world as they thought it had been in the late 1680s , and their platform increasingly appeared to have less and less relevance to the new problems facing England . |
| 26 | The strange , abstract and logically fantastic world of the mathematicians remained somewhat isolated both from the general and the scientific public , perhaps more so than before , since its main contact with both , physics ( through physical technology ) , appeared at this stage to have less use for its most advanced and adventurous abstractions than in the great days of the construction of a celestial mechanics . |
| 27 | Er , I think it would be far better to have a streamlined regulatory system which would make the much cheaper and more efficient and I 'm glad that the honourable gentleman seems to be agreeing and perhaps he could try and persuade his honourable mefem member on the front bench that legislation , primary legislation is needed , I 'm glad to hear he 's working on it erm on on the second on the second point he made about the number of regulations , I 'm not sure I would agree with him that the best way of resolving this problem is to have less regulations er er though I would agree with the general er thrust of what he might be saying and that is that if the regulatory system was to concentrate on promoting higher professional standards and have less emphasis on rules and regulations then I think that would help . |
| 28 | And modern dwarf trees tend to have less sturdy root systems . |
| 29 | We used to have less than that and now we are thinking of going to ten , ’ he said . |
| 30 | We leave that to the specialists , and indeed I think that the reason why we 're particularly concerned with disasters which happen in the poorer parts of the world , the developing countries , is because they seem to have less of a voice to be able to complain about what is done to them . |