Example sentences of "[noun] [art] less [subord] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From 1316 when Lancaster 's power was at its height , until 1323 , when Edward once again had full control of the government and the thirteen-year truce was concluded , Scottish forces ravaged northern England almost as far south as the Humber , plundering and impoverishing the clergy no less than the laity of that region . |
| 2 | Ruskin would surely have been surprised if he had been told that a time would come when railway stations , like lakes and mountains , would become a part of the imaginative life of men , and when the sounding express engine no less than the sounding cataract would rouse in them a noble delight . |
| 3 | The Normans valued the defensive function no less than the English , but feared it might be turned against them . |
| 4 | He would have been still more surprised if he had been told that the closing of an old railway station would one day move men to sadness no less than the demolition of a Gothic church or the violation of a landscape . |
| 5 | The resulting drab uniformity and melancholy of mood which struck Spanish visitors to the Inca empire no less than the lack of personality of its inhabitants provides an interesting and instructive parallel with socialist societies of today . |