Example sentences of "less [noun sg] than [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fuzzy Peach ( ripe peach ) , Juba ( lemon and orange ) and Camomella ( camomile ) are on sale from February 18 — less ageist than a wrinkle cream ! |
| 2 | Pre-tax profits of £30m to £40m point to a p/e of over 15 at 104p , down 21p , which is less support than a yield of 9.5 per cent if the final holds . |
| 3 | It was less worry than the lethargy which so often seemed to overcome him . |
| 4 | As the market in manufactures enjoys less protection than the market in agricultural produce , it does not appear unreasonable to focus upon intra-EC trade in agricultural produce when a financial budget and an economic budget are considered . |
| 5 | First , its supranational executive , a Board of Commissioners , would have considerably less leverage than the ECSC High Authority against the national representatives in the Council of Ministers . |
| 6 | The red-hot steel tyre would be placed in position around the wheel ; if the tyre was of less width than the rim , temporary nails were partly driven into the wood to stop the tyre slipping down to the steel plate . |
| 7 | He thinks that the tax credit encourages creative accounting and will provide less benefit than the administration imagines ; instead , he would like to see the corporate income-tax increase held to 35% . |
| 8 | The disadvantages are that the single battery has less stamina than a pod of AAs giving the same voltage , and the female terminal can splay ( or the segments fold under if the battery is installed carelessly ) . |
| 9 | In sum , it seems , the principle which is supposed to underlie the formation of groups , of which nationalists are one , is of much less importance than the existence of the groups . |
| 10 | The perceptual side of the Umwelt has received less attention than the motor aspect , the study of animal perception ( as opposed to sensory physiology or discriminative behaviour ) having been inhabited by the explicitly anti-mentalistic bias of behaviourism . |
| 11 | Callinicos , defence of Marxism is erudite and compelling , and the fact that he runs out of steam over post-war art is of less moment than the fact that he takes the range of issues seriously enough to discuss them at all . |
| 12 | In connection with speaker 4 , it is interesting that those in the black group who correctly guessed his ethnicity did so with markedly less confidence than the average ( mean confidence 1.7 ) . |
| 13 | This is an area where a diesel car scores very well and as it uses less fuel than a petrol car , it emits less noxious gas . |
| 14 | Most of you had a shower installed because it was convenient and saved time , and also because you liked the fact that it uses less water than a bath and provides an extra bathing facility . |
| 15 | The main advantages of a shower are that it 's more hygienic and uses less water than a bath — typically , 70 to 80 per cent less , 30 to 40 per cent less for a power shower . |
| 16 | From an environmental point of view a bolt ( galvanised or stainless steel ) causes less impact than a peg . |
| 17 | The Moon contains less iron than the Earth , far less volatiles , and , at least on its surface , a greater abundance of refractory materials . |
| 18 | May have less quality than the riding horse , but must be suitable for all riding club activities . |
| 19 | You 'll have to check them teas , one 's got a little bit less sugar than the other . |
| 20 | The House of Windsor , protected by police , press secretaries , and endless private acres , showed less composure than the House of Spencer . |
| 21 | HELLER ON MANAGEMENT Less sense than a lemming |
| 22 | Until the 1980s the killing of 2000 or so pilot whales each year in the Faroe Islands was considered to be of far less significance than the slaughter of tens of thousands of the much rarer great whale species . |
| 23 | Although the peasantry continued to account for over 80 per cent of the population , discontent among the urban poor and especially the industrial working class was of scarcely less significance than the unrest in the countryside . |
| 24 | But in general , discounting was this year considered of less significance than the proliferation of bargain bookshops , whose advent had been heralded the previous year but whose growth in numbers has evidently continued since . |
| 25 | In general , the Commons has had less success than the Congress in either developing its own sources of information or in forcing information out of the executive . |
| 26 | The east coast of Britain has notably less rainfall than the country 's average . |
| 27 | The war ( September 1939–Armistice June 1940 ) and the Occupation ( 1940–June/August 1944 ) reinforced the authorities ' use of radio for propaganda ; radio , however , emerged from the war and Occupation in less disrepute than the press . |
| 28 | WE 'RE SORRY we ca n't return any of your Gallery pictures , but not half as sorry as we are for inflicting this smirking , high-voiced , tubby toff with less personality than a plasticine man on you . |
| 29 | Hugh de Tracy refused me his daughter as if I had less worth than the slave who cleans out the garderobe tunnel . |
| 30 | I would say that the five advantages of our alternative draft is that er it makes it clear that the policy applies to land outside the national parks and so forth but with less repetition than the proposal put forward by the county council . |