Example sentences of "less [adj] [conj] it [vb mod] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The overall picture presented in his article is a little less clear than it might be , if only because of the multiplicity of interesting observations ( fortunately Bolinger provides us with copious examples ) but it may be summarized as follows : ( a ) Adjectives may qualify either the referent of a noun or its sense without simultaneously applying to the other . |
| 2 | It is less clear whether it can be used to measure plant area though a possible technique is to redesign its optical system to focus on a small area and then use it to scan a larger area , agreeing that a reading above some pre-determined level is ON , below it is OFF . |
| 3 | Hangman is well known as a spelling game , but it is less useful than it should be , because it is usually played as a pure guessing game . |
| 4 | ‘ If the track authority is less cost-efficient than it might be , it 's going to shackle what we can do as an operator , ’ he says . |
| 5 | It is very difficult to see how Germany is less centralised and it should be clear that the ‘ subsidiarity ’ principle is merely an allocation of competence , as in the hierarchy of a company , rather than a distribution of power . |
| 6 | Ideas that arise in Quadrant 4 may be very exciting to the person concerned , but be seen as trivial by those who have to implement them , with the result that the innovation process is less effective than it might be . |
| 7 | And devolution might be less effective than it should be if , as could well be the case in Scotland for example , the support for one particular party was such that there was very little likelihood of a change of control at elections . |
| 8 | … in-service training is often much less effective than it could be because it is based on an ‘ educational model ’ i.e. is focussed largely on the individual . |
| 9 | The susceptibility of individuals to disease ; if animals are kept or treated in such a way that their immune system does not work very well , that in itself tells you that their welfare is less good than it might be . |
| 10 | This makes it less relevant than it might be here , partly because the undergraduate curriculum is relatively more specialized than the secondary school one , and partly because distinctions or dimensions which are important in higher education — for example , between the pure and the applied — are less so in the schools . |