Example sentences of "be less [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The KPMG barometer suggests that over the six years that fraud has been tracked , Scotland has been less affected than most regions , with total fraud in the overall period of £34.1 million or 2.1 per cent of the UK total reported . |
| 2 | Eliot was more hopeful about the ‘ re-establishment of a native culture ’ in Virginia than in New England , he told a Virginian audience , since ‘ You are farther away from New York ; you have been less industrialised and less invaded by foreign races ; and you have a more opulent soil . ’ |
| 3 | Alix admitted what Liz already knew , that she and Sebastian had been less than happy , that the idyll had been less golden than it looked . |
| 4 | What two siblings could have been less alike than Jake and his very own brother , Ryan ? |
| 5 | Nothing could have been less reasonable than my fellow-members when it came to paying their share of the bills . |
| 6 | She would have stopped there if the adrenalin in her system had been less potent or the half-smile on his face had n't taunted her to further repartee . |
| 7 | Indeed , knowledge was more limited and collections generally smaller when the schemes were devised , and so an analytic approach to classification would have been less appropriate than it is today . |
| 8 | I think the show would have been less timid if he had sought out more of the artists in their 20s who nowadays keep coming up in mixed exhibitions in Liverpool , Birmingham , Leeds , Whitechapel and so on . |
| 9 | To Mauriac 's lesson in Gaullist orthodoxy , de Gaulle replied : " Politics have never been less inviting than at this moment . |
| 10 | ‘ Perhaps I have been less civil than you would have reason to expect . ’ |
| 11 | Isabel Lavender had always been less good than most people at losing face , since she had never learned how to compensate for it , she had never learned to wallow , to conceal partial humiliation in an expression of total defeat . |
| 12 | ( 98 ) … the nineteenth century ethos , which we now know to have been less stable and free from doubt than was once imagined . |
| 13 | The inflation figures , and even pay settlements , have been less awful than might have been expected . |
| 14 | For contemporaries , the charm must have been less impressive than the sense of half-realised ambitions . |
| 15 | The one of the Dallachy Strike Wing ( FP November , p29 ) has been less publicised than its counterpart at Banff to the south , perhaps because it operated the Beaufighter rather than the more glamorous Mosquito . |
| 16 | In fact , experience so far suggests that MDC 's approach to urban regeneration has been less cavalier than LDDC 's , reflecting its concern to minimise the social costs of development to its residents and to avoid projects likely to prejudice other areas of the city . |
| 17 | In reactors where there is a little organic matter , the fission products are trapped on clay minerals , but these have been less effective than bitumen — about 30 per cent of the ND has been lost and other lanthanides have migrated away from the core . |
| 18 | However , this legislation has been less effective than many of its supporters had wanted and most cases of discrimination against women which are taken before the industrial tribunals do not succeed . |
| 19 | The JSP campaign was generally felt to have been less effective than that which it had fought in 1989 . |
| 20 | For behaviour has both been less studied than some parts of morphology , and its inheritance is generally too complex to lay bare the elementary principles . |
| 21 | Had he been less brilliant or sure of himself , he would have been easier to dismiss , but Cooper selected his victims with care , knowing precisely where their weaknesses were , and always aimed to draw blood , each review increasing his enemies within the international art establishment ( see The Art Newspaper , No. 17 , April 1992 , p. 2 for his dealings with John Rothenstein ) . |
| 22 | Tony said he had felt happier after discharge from hospital and that his father had been less critical and more supportive during the last few days . |
| 23 | The newcomers , mostly fishermen or peasant farmers who came as boat people , have been less successful than the first wave . |
| 24 | Certain aspects of centres ' work may have been less successful than others ( there was a considerable and unproductive stress on making inefficient ‘ cheap ’ material such as bead microscopes ) and some centres like Nsukka , Nairobi , Domasi and Njala were more active than others but the overall record in terms of creation of exciting relevant material based on children 's experience is indeed impressive . |
| 25 | Whilst the USSR has been less successful than she had hoped in restricting export volume , CMEA countries nonetheless find themselves obliged to purchase ever larger volumes of fuel from non-CMEA countries at market clearing prices . |
| 26 | The company now hopes to transfer what has been developed to another vendor — Digital Equipment Corp sells the Y-MP EL , but has been less successful than Cray hoped . |
| 27 | It is all too clear from many published accounts of ventures in educational innovation that they have frequently been less successful than was hoped simply because the necessary consequences in terms of processes and support had not ( or could not have ) been foreseen . |
| 28 | People with cystic fibrosis had been less successful than the general population in achieving O level or equivalent qualifications , but more successful in achieving A level or higher qualifications . |
| 29 | We have been less successful where the difficulty already has a long-standing history in our own school . |
| 30 | They must have been less pleased when a slightly sensational story got into Weekend under my own name . |