Example sentences of "less [adj] than [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Bryan Gould is generally rated less European than the Shadow Chancellor , Mr John Smith ; and Mr Gerald Kaufman , the Shadow Foreign Secretary , has swung round from gut anti-Europeanism to a conviction that powerful central institutions are unavoidable — and Britain should play its full part . |
| 2 | Degreasers can , with care , be applied to aluminium surfaces as silicates are less corrosive than the caustics . |
| 3 | Real skins are much less coherent than the stereotype . |
| 4 | It covers such a wide variety of conditions that it is less specific than a weather forecast . |
| 5 | Where the nature of the disability is less specific than the example shown ( e.g. backache , virus etc ) the progress of the claim should be monitored very closely . |
| 6 | It would be easy to be intimidated here on first acquaintance , for this part of the crag is less friendly than the rest . |
| 7 | It should be possible to find out more about the woman from sources less prejudiced than the family . ’ |
| 8 | The actual sound ambience of this recording is less dry than the sort of sound that Philips is prepared to settle for in the same hall , and it is refreshing to hear Nicholas McGegan 's fine cast of soloists use the hall 's natural resonance to give the distinct impression that they are enjoying themselves and confirming , to one listener at least , that an important part of enjoying oneself is showing off . |
| 9 | For example , a child with language which is less advanced than the language of other children of that age would be regarded as having delayed language ; in contrast , children whose language stands out because it is deficient when compared with the way in which they perform on other social and intellectual tasks may be regarded as having a language deficit . |
| 10 | It does not necessarily follow that any individual who has not taken on the attitude of the generalized other is any less complete than the person who has and acts accordingly . |
| 11 | That is , the specialisation of the left hemisphere for language among inverters was assumed to be less complete than the right sided specialisation of non-inverters . |
| 12 | In Fig. 3.13A , the percentage completeness of the mandible and maxilla is similar in rank order , and , surprisingly , the maxilla is only slightly less complete than the mandible , with approximately equal proportions of both . |
| 13 | Personally , I find them less absorbing than the book that contrives to tell only one story , with as many ramifications as may be . |
| 14 | In view of the consternation which Khrushchev 's policies aroused in the Party itself , his eventual deposition is less striking than the degree to which he succeeded in imposing his will on a reluctant leadership . |
| 15 | Worst of all , finance is less discreet than the valet . |
| 16 | The point , which I find persuasive , is that an appeal court which will be less full-time than the Court of Justice will be less imbued with the centralist perspective , and thus in a better position to maintain an objectivity as between the interests of the EEC and those of the nation state . |
| 17 | The proposal itself was less controversial than the party manoeuvring which had gone before it . |
| 18 | Practice is , of course , even less representative than the law reports , but it does have the advantage of providing examples of the use of expert determination where there were no recorded disputes . |
| 19 | The Prime Minister gave no hint during her performance in the Commons yesterday that her language at Strasbourg will be any less caustic than the manner she has adopted at recent Commonwealth summits . |
| 20 | The Prime Minister gave no hint during her performance in the Commons yesterday that her language at Strasbourg will be any less caustic than the manner she has adopted at recent Commonwealth summits . |
| 21 | This is much less subtle than the characterization of strategy given in Bourdieu 's Outline of a Theory of Practice , and is consistent with a simplification of the concept of the object . |
| 22 | However , one must weigh this potential change in content and focus against the benefits of rendering a smooth , natural translation in contexts where the use of the passive for instance would be stylistically less acceptable than the use of the active or an alternative structure in the target language . |
| 23 | SIR — Your agricultural correspondent 's report on the goats of Snowdonia and their origins ( April 2 ) is less exciting than the folklore related to me as a small boy by a Welsh shepherd . |
| 24 | Why should a boat be less social than a caravan , for heaven 's sake ? |
| 25 | And hope is less clear than the dew of the morn |
| 26 | And a couple is less conspicuous than a man on his own … ’ |
| 27 | Contrary to our knowledge today , this last was considered to be less civilized than the bronze age that preceded it . |
| 28 | The shock to the patient was regarded as less grave than the risk of being precipitated unprepared into the next world . |
| 29 | Therefore spreads are usually less risky than a position in a single futures contract . |
| 30 | Many married women whose husbands sign on for the family find themselves forced to seek work in the black economy in order to make ends meet ; this is often seen as less risky than the possibility of their husbands being caught . |