Example sentences of "less [adj] [prep] [noun] [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , both the lecturers I spoke to felt that some of their colleagues were less tolerant of dissent than they were ; we shall see later that some of the students felt this too . |
| 2 | As we show in chapter 5 , exit barriers make multinationals less mobile in practice than they are theoretically capable of being . |
| 3 | Computers are reliable and less prone to error provided they are instructed or programmed appropriately and correctly . |
| 4 | The very idea of ‘ disciplinary cultures ’ is itself problematic , involving as it does not one but two rather elusive concepts ; and many disciplines appear less homogeneous to insiders than they look from the outside . |
| 5 | The first deals with the reasons of the ( apparent ) diminution of objects as they recede from the eye , and is known as Perspective of Diminution : the second contains the way colours vary as they recede from the eye : the third and last explains how objects should appear less distinct in proportion as they are more remote . |
| 6 | Perhaps the most important point to make is that , as part of affirmatively assessing elders , we should never assume that unconscious processes are less important or less worthy of exploration than they are in other people . |
| 7 | Science becomes less appealing to boys as they get older ( and to girls , it seems , at all stages of adolescence ) and become interested in issues as varied as ‘ the meaning of life , the existence of God , ideologies , their emerging sexuality , their future career and lifestyle ’ . |