Example sentences of "[was/were] less [adj] [conj] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Damage was also very great in the mustelid samples , but in the one good sample from the pine marten the bones were less modified than in the canid samples , and it is not known at present which pattern is more typical of mustelids . |
| 2 | Russian representatives sent to them normally had the rank of Great Ambassador ( Velikii Posol ) and their complaints over ceremonial were less intrusive than in other capitals . |
| 3 | Though in Germany traditional cleavages were less obvious than in Italy . |
| 4 | The relative tardiness of the political response to the railway question in Spain meant that the formal framework of relationships was less developed than in Britain and thus the general problem of unclear objectives was more severe . |
| 5 | As there is a trio of high and narrow lights in each main gable , the problem of reconciling this glazing with the added upper floor was less critical than in a case where large windows , surmounted by pointed arches , occupy the gables — this is almost a standard feature of Victorian village schools . |
| 6 | In commenting on the 1991 budget shortly before its final acceptance , the IMF was less critical than in the previous year [ see p. 37509 ] , but stressed that the following year would be crucial if Italy were to be capable of participating fully in European economic and monetary union . |
| 7 | This surely suggests that in the more distant demes — Eleusis with its great sanctuary and fortifications , or Rhamnous and Sounion with their temples of Nemesis and Poseidon ( ML 53 = Fornara 90B for the treasury accounts of Rhamnousian Nemesis ) — the city 's magnetic pull was less strong than in a deme close to the city , like , say , Kolonos . |
| 8 | This combination of light industry and agriculture is probably typical of the suburbs where pressure on land was less acute than in the centre . |
| 9 | The decline in the Low Country started later and was less sharp than in the other two regions . |
| 10 | No doubt to obtain a quick and smooth passage for his measures , he was less ambitious than in Hall 's ill-fated Bill of 1857 , and only sought power to purchase the outstanding 1.25 acres ( 0.50 ha. ) between Charles Street and Crown Street and 0.5 acre ( 0.19 ha. ) of St James 's Park . |
| 11 | This road to promotion was even more conspicuous in Germany and the Low Countries , where the feudal hierarchy was less organized than in England , and where a king depended on his domain servants for administrative and judicial services , and military aid , far more than in England or France . |
| 12 | Argentina , Chile and Uruguay are also relatively urbanised and secularised societies where the role of the Church was less significant than in , say , Mexico , Brazil or Colombia . |
| 13 | Machmud Subarkah , told a parliamentary committee that the political role of ABRI was less important than in the past . |
| 14 | In Ajdabiya ( where , additionally , the layout of houses was less elastic than in the south ) , the younger and educated sons of Musbah Ifkairin moved out into new houses nearby , leaving the eldest brother with their father . |
| 15 | In two months Sussex saw 103 separate incidents , two-thirds of them in the eastern half where the restrictive paternalism of the great landowners was less pervasive than in the west . |