Example sentences of "less of a [noun sg] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though eclipsed by his elder brother , Thomas ( later first Marquis of Wharton , q.v. ) , and cutting less of a dash than his two other brothers , William ( by his father 's third marriage ) , the wit and gallant , slain in a duel , and Henry , the soldier politician who died young while campaigning in Ireland , Goodwin Wharton nevertheless played no small part in post-1688 Whig politics . |
| 2 | Hobbes , on the other hand , is more of a theorist , less of a methodologist than Bacon : his distinction between experiential and ratiocinative knowledge is considered and explicitly made . |
| 3 | That 's why the very un-Hollywood editing ( the German prisoners , after very little discussion are summarily disposed of ) comes as less of a shock than it ordinarily would have . |
| 4 | Their place in a group dominated by the Catholics no doubt reflected the regent 's desire for consent from Catholic and protestant alike ; and as yet she saw little reason to fear the Protestants , who must still have seemed to her far less of a threat than the strong Huguenot party in France . |
| 5 | And now there was the threat of this libel action , less of a threat than a certainty . |
| 6 | External hacking poses much less of a threat than malicious acts by staff or ex-staff . |
| 7 | Between the main road and the sea are the small , cliff side resorts , first of Bid art , which has a delightful town square , very Basque , with church , pelota wall and hotels gathered affably together , and excellent beaches to walk down to ; and then of Guéthary , which is smaller , lower down and less of a village than Bidart , but has the better coastline . |
| 8 | However , this does not mean we are any less efficient or offer any less of a service than before . |
| 9 | Jobs , government officials say , are much less of a problem than is housing . |
| 10 | One advantage of such a site , however , is that samples of blood and urine that are required for analysis of rhythms are readily refrigerated so that deterioration is less of a problem than in other environments . |
| 11 | Supplying the best environment is often less of a problem than deciding how to make effective use of their special qualities within the existing garden . |
| 12 | Lighting has also proved less of a problem than anticipated . |
| 13 | With these concessions the cost of transport is less of a problem than availability . |
| 14 | If you are travelling by car , carrying extra bits and pieces is less of a problem than if you are going by air . |
| 15 | The time spent on the herb garden is probably less than on any other part of the whole garden ( unless it has been deliberately planted to be labour-saving ) , but shortage of time is less of a problem than money , since the herb-garden is a hobby , undertaken for enjoyment and relaxation . |
| 16 | In England , at least , rural depopulation is now regarded as less of a problem than it was up until the 1940s . |
| 17 | Now that fitted cupboards are commonplace in the home , storage is less of a problem than it used to be , but shelving and cupboards in living rooms , dining rooms and bedrooms is always useful . |
| 18 | Even Crump himself might be better meeting his Judgement now , after a life of useful business , than later when the disturbances of retirement — already foreshadowed — would most likely have made him less of a man than he was now , less happy , less useful , perhaps even diminished , by turbulent pettiness , in the very qualities which might now ensure his redemption . |
| 19 | While Hogarth is much less of a presence than his aqueous predecessor , his arrival has caused Marillion to bind closer together as a unit . |
| 20 | English Estates are moving ahead with the development of Chatham Maritime and although Mr. Ault assured me that the plaintiff did not wish to drive the dock company away , its operation is clearly less of a godsend than in 1983 and the desire is to curtail it . |
| 21 | In almost every respect , they posed less of a menace than the civil and racial violence which he advocated and assisted as Mosley 's Director of Propaganda . |
| 22 | Chamoun himself was less of a Francophile than an Anglophile and his contempt for Nasser bore a strange similarity to the equally irrational hatred expressed for the Egyptian leader by Eden 's Suez adventure would be successful in deposing Nasser . |
| 23 | Fortunately , my spirit was less of a coward than me and quite simply refused to roll over and play dead . |
| 24 | These trips would proceed on the basis that Richard Branson 's lack of musical expertise was less of a liability than Simon Draper 's lack of salesmanship . |
| 25 | This last is less of a restriction than might at first be supposed . |
| 26 | The extent to which Th1 responses are down-regulated in infected patients , who clearly are mounting antiparasite Th2-like responses , remains unclear , although some studies have indicated less of a suppression than that seen in infected mice ( Dunne ; C. King , Case Western Reserve ) . |
| 27 | Having played all the courses in the area regularly , I must point out that if Mr Ward feels that Stranraer is less of a challenge than Portpatrick he should have realised that the 18 holes to the right of the clubhouse was the putting green , not the course ! |
| 28 | The result has been the stimulation of the perfectly natural reaction for those who rely on the priesthood for guidance in these matters , to become suspicious of the integrity of that hierarchy and , as more enlightened thinking proves to be less of a sin than is often implied , lose what faith had been generated . |
| 29 | He used to tell me I was less of a woman than most women ; that I was a woman in flesh but a man in spirit ; that I was an hermaphrodite nouveau , a third sex . |
| 30 | Re-decorating one bedroom should be fun and is much less of a task than taking on a whole house . |