Example sentences of "[was/were] less [adj] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Students studying on specialist IT programmes were less likely than conversion students to be in employment or to be seeking work ( Table 4.3 ) . |
| 2 | The most significant finding of these reports was of the over-representation of black youths on mode B schemes — or on schemes that were less likely than mode A schemes to lead to a job . |
| 3 | The wearing of pig badges by a large group of staff , many of whom were members of middle management , after the Deputy Head , Peter Moors , had suggested that pork was less suitable than turkey for the school 's Christmas dinner , since it prevented Muslim boys from taking part . |
| 4 | He believed nothing should stand in the way of the security of the United States , and was less choosy than Congress about what means he took to preserve it . |
| 5 | For drinking purposes , he concluded that well-water , with possibilities of immediate pollution , was less desirable than river water , with its natural processes for purification . |
| 6 | In Moscow , where the average factory was smaller and factory workers were outnumbered by artisans in small workshops , social polarization was less extreme and labour protest less fierce . |
| 7 | Lord Buckhurst even tried to argue , rather implausibly , that a patent of office quam diu se bene gesserit automatically became void on the misbehaviour of the holder , and that therefore this type of tenure was less secure than durante bene placito . |