Example sentences of "[verb] less than [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | But to refer to Wladek as ‘ a typical representative of the culturally passive mass which constitutes in every civilised society the enormous majority of the population ’ is to do less than justice to a tale which is at times very lively indeed and which was surely not written by any ‘ passive ’ sort of person . |
| 2 | One should therefore be cautious about generalisations which do less than justice to the contribution which friendship can make to the well-being of specific groups of old people . |
| 3 | But they do less than justice to this remarkable donkey . |
| 4 | Shinwell 's remarks did less than justice to both men who , in their own fashion , had a genuine concern for the welfare of seamen and their organisation . |
| 5 | Jemson lasted less than half-an-hour on Saturday . |
| 6 | If the book does less than justice to large , complex organisms one can argue that sub specie aeternitatis the authors may have got it about right ! |
| 7 | We shall not be satisfied with a theory which does less than justice to the biblical view of the nature of man , but at the same time we need to be sure that we really have grasped the biblical view , and not just read our own ideas into it . |
| 8 | This , I believe , does less than justice to their egalitarianism . |