Example sentences of "[pron] have less " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result of that I 'm learning more now than I ever have , even though I have less time in which to do so . ’ |
| 2 | I have less to say about the country south of the Mallaig railway . |
| 3 | It 's curious , I feel I have less to tell about it : I know what it was like , it was daily life ; it does n't stand out , make a tale , like the things they told of the past . |
| 4 | But generally , I do n't think there 's any group of people that I have less respect for . |
| 5 | No , when it comes to resurrections , I believe in the defibrillator and that 's about it ; which means I have less trouble with Frankenstein than I do with say , Lazarus , to cite one of Pa 's favourite yarns . |
| 6 | They nibble hungrily at my legs because I have less hair to protect my skin . |
| 7 | Why did the Secretary of State keep using the qualifying phrase : ’ I have less for other programmes ’ in his budget ? |
| 8 | In polyester or Dacron ( which have less stretch and a partial recovery of length ) , you can find higher breaking strain twist but then another factor emerges with these lies . |
| 9 | However , the broadest distinction being made , and one which is of most relevance in the present context , is that between the ‘ good ’ ( baig ) and the ‘ bad ’ ( yabud ) — or , as I prefer , the helpful and the harmful , designations which have less of Western moral connotations and which in the particular context correspond more closely to Chewong associations . |
| 10 | When the base is squeezed by open-market operations , etc. , the banks may be able to economize on cash balances by encouraging customers to switch to time accounts which have less risk of large cash withdrawals . |
| 11 | On the same basis , there are some sectors er which have less settlements than indeed som if any than others . |
| 12 | I am prepared to share my possessions with people who have less than I do . |
| 13 | It requires money to travel , and while in the '50s working class people could reach the hills with sufficient determination , the increasing fashionability of outdoor sports is excluding more and more who have less and less . |
| 14 | The point of this criticism , however , has been dulled somewhat by models offering somewhat similar predictions that replace myopic voters with voters who have less information than those who shape policy ( e.g. Rogoff and Sibert 1988 ) . |
| 15 | The drawbacks of this style used alone are that it can be slow and you have less control over your objective . |
| 16 | You may actually encounter more problems when using public transport , simply because you have less control over events . |
| 17 | If each month that goes by you cross off one square , then by the age of 38 you have less than half your squares left . |
| 18 | If you insure all the property in your flat against theft , fire etc. you have less of an incentive to make the place thief-proof and to check over it carefully before going out or going to bed than if you were not insured . |
| 19 | If in pain control , you were in control of your own pain , you have less than if it were a set wait every four hours for us to come and give you a tablet . |
| 20 | But you have less roads and therefore less environmental damage where those roads pass . |
| 21 | Additionally it might be argued that with the almost instantaneous transmission of information we have these days , the impact of hearing about individuals or groups or communities of people dying is that much greater because we have less time to prepare for bad news . |
| 22 | As several authors point out , the very fact that unequivocal translation evolves between any two communities in contact tells heavily against it ( though if one extends the example to man/dolphin the issue becomes more cloudy , presumably because we have less in common with dolphins ) . |
| 23 | ‘ The sobering thought , as decades turn , ’ says social psychologist Duncan Cramer , ‘ is not only that we have less time to live , but that options also narrow . ’ |
| 24 | Today we have less confidence than before in the power of more external , socially oriented ideologies to change the world . |
| 25 | the average lifetime of such civilizations Reading down this list , we find that we have less and less possibility of being able to produce adequate figures to slot into the equation . |
| 26 | It 's also tied to the fact that were , we have less money than we used to because of the introduction of Poll Tax , it is tied to that cos we are constrained but , erm that 's the kind of thing that we get brought into to support , erm and then another area is progressing policy initiative 's in other Council departments . |
| 27 | It 's just that what happens is we we 've got less sometimes we have less pizzas than we 've got people . |
| 28 | For if we have no reason to believe that any more of the debts will be paid during the intervals of peace , than have hitherto been : Nay the whole of the Sinking Fund , by such an increased debt , becoming absolutely anticipated , together with numbers of additional oppressive taxes , we have less reason to expect any of the old debts to be discharged , as we go on contracting of new . |
| 29 | This fact tends to make full-time reserve police very cautious in their behaviour , for they feel they have less opportunity to ease , which further means that their opinion of some regulars is not good . |
| 30 | However , if one shift performs better ( and ‘ better ’ might refer to the quality or quantity — or both — of product that is made ) is it because it consists of more conscientious workers ; their conditions of working are better , or they have less distraction ; they are supervised more closely and the conveyor belt moves faster ; or their body clock enables them to work better at some times of the day than others ? |