Example sentences of "less [adj] [conj] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that there is a difference comes as no surprise , after all , a completely empty , uneventful drive through a junction would be expected to be both less memorable and less risky than an occasion when the junction was full of traffic . |
| 2 | However , it is worth noting that unstressed syllables containing , , or a syllabic consonant will sound less prominent than an unstressed syllable containing some other vowel . |
| 3 | Using a theoretical model originally suggested by Dixit ( 1987 ) , the UK quota has been shown to have been more restrictive than a tariff-equivalent quota , while the EC minimum import price was less restrictive than an optimal tariff . |
| 4 | A group is more enduring and supportive than two people interacting socially but is looser or less structured than an organization . |
| 5 | The most notable object in Pavo is the short-period variable Kappa , which is a Type II Cepheid , rather less luminous than an ordinary Cepheid of the same period . |
| 6 | Secondly , its appearance is less attractive than an unbound book , which carries the original dust jacket intact ( though there are still a handful of traditionalists or binding fetishists who prefer the appearance of a library binding to a laminated dust jacket ) . |