Example sentences of "[be] less [adj] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For contemporaries , the charm must have been less impressive than the sense of half-realised ambitions . |
| 2 | The newcomers , mostly fishermen or peasant farmers who came as boat people , have been less successful than the first wave . |
| 3 | People with cystic fibrosis had been less successful than the general population in achieving O level or equivalent qualifications , but more successful in achieving A level or higher qualifications . |
| 4 | Other churchmen , too , had ideas about the duties of Christian rulers , and may have been less convinced than the Encomiast that Cnut lived up to them . |
| 5 | He had had a charter drawn up , which presumably contained a boundary clause , but this seems to have been less significant than the authority of the witnesses . |
| 6 | There had been no horror particular to Toulouse to explain that extraordinary fear ; the battle had been less threatening than a half-dozen of the Spanish engagements , yet Sharpe had never forgotten the awful fear , nor his relief when peace had been declared . |
| 7 | Relations between the communist states had for some time been less amicable than a common dedication to working-class interests might have suggested . |
| 8 | The establishment of compatibility is slower and it remains less stable when the two animals are both of high initial dominance ; thus two males are less compatible than a male — female dyad . |
| 9 | As such , they are less sluggish than the average band . |
| 10 | The flavours of both cheeses are less powerful than the bouquets . |
| 11 | Degreasers can , with care , be applied to aluminium surfaces as silicates are less corrosive than the caustics . |
| 12 | When the test samples are less stable than the controls , interpretation is less easy since such samples may , nevertheless , be stable under the conditions of the market . |
| 13 | Thus they are less daunting than a large pipe organ to the ‘ reluctant organist ’ . |
| 14 | For instance , the women speakers in extract ( 2 ) are less cooperative than the men on a number of quite plausible measures . |
| 15 | These claims are less vague than the logic claim , because a question or a speaking turn is easy enough to identify with precision . |
| 16 | It seems clear that , because they probably do not have as much of their total assets dependent upon the fortunes of a specific firm , the firm 's shareholders are less risk-averse than the manager . |
| 17 | There were thus two possibilities : Either we are in a region of the universe in which strong sources are less frequent than the average ; or the density of sources was higher in the past , when the light left the more distant sources on its journey toward us . |
| 18 | Alternative ( indirect ) models are less probable than a direct contact model involving the C-terminal part of α and the 156–162 loop of CRP at lac . |
| 19 | Most of the surveys showing that unemployed people are less healthy than the employed are cross-sectional in nature ( comparing different people at the same time , rather than following the changes in people 's lives over a period of time ) . |
| 20 | It is also helpful if the managers ' shares carry rights which , initially , are less beneficial than the rights attaching to the institutions ' shares but which , in accordance with pre-determined ratchet formulae in the Articles of Newco , can increase in value ( as a result of profitability targets being met ) at a rate faster than can the institutions ' shares . |
| 21 | these forms are less common than the B strain in the UK , but have been the cause of epidemics in other areas such as Sub-Saharan Africa . |
| 22 | The British backed the plan but are less enthusiastic than the French . |
| 23 | Are less inconstant than a Woman 's Soul : |
| 24 | In fact , astronomers who conduct such surveys estimate that 95 per cent of stars are less luminous than the Sun . |
| 25 | Mr MacGregor 's plans are less novel than the MPs seem to think . |
| 26 | They are less welcome than a troop of ticket inspectors . |
| 27 | In some ways , the result of her formal experiments are less dramatic than the incidental bits of behaviour shown by Alex . |
| 28 | While the long-wavists might point to effects of changes in production on wider society , they are less likely than the regulationists to see the cause-and-effect relation going the other way . |
| 29 | But since the thrust of the argument is for grass-roots power and the paper refers implicitly to unpopular counties created by the 1974 reforms , the districts are less worried than the counties that contain them . |
| 30 | The individual figures are less important than the overall picture , which illustrates the limitations of production on a small farm and the unavoidable expenses . |