Example sentences of "less because " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the benefit of a second one-year set-aside , if the scheme is extended , would be less because the reduced area of cereals harvested in 1992 would reduce the co-responsibility levy refund . |
| 2 | Also , at the 1982 Annual General Meeting the members rejected with increasing self-assertiveness the demand for increased subscriptions — perhaps less because of the cost but more to demonstrate their new confidence . |
| 3 | ‘ Might n't a lacy bra or sheer stockings have erotic appeal less because they are symbols of female powerlessness and more because they are familiar symbols of female sexuality ? ’ |
| 4 | After 1885 the cost of prosecuting was less because cases were tried in police courts instead of district courts . |
| 5 | Even Britain 's Labour Party is looking at PR , if less because of Liberal complaints than of its own fears that FPTP — which in the past served it well — may leave its Tory rivals for ever running solid one-party governments on 40% of the vote . |
| 6 | The 3000s support 2,300 users , less because of current limitations in the MPE/XL operating system for multi-processing , but TPS rates are higher , ranging from 114 for the 3000 990/100 up to 420 for the 992/400 . |
| 7 | As we have seen , however , trade-unionism failed to take root less because of intelligentsia influence than because of the constraints placed upon it by the tsarist State . |
| 8 | Such mass forms of music now exist , less because a large number of recipients have the same musical needs than because these needs become similar ( transcending all ethnic , national and social barriers ) , since the individual here can be a recipient of music only in association with others ( ibid : 233 ) . |
| 9 | In the overhaul of government that accompanied the War of the Spanish Succession the servants of Philip V rejected the system of the Great Councils , less because it gave the grandees too much political power than because it was incurably inefficient and incapable of organizing the monarchy for the defence of the French dynasty . |
| 10 | The generalized conclusion ( first widely popularized by Martinson ( 1974 ) ) that ‘ nothing works ’ became widely accepted less because of its validity than because it was a message suited to its time , and because the disappointment of the high hopes invested in reform led to an over-reaction against the rehabilitative ideal . |
| 11 | If he gives , and intends to give , that power , and the power is exercised , the person who takes under the execution of the power obtains the property , not against , but by the authority of , the original owner , and none the less because the authority was obtained by fraud . ’ |
| 12 | So if you like the first quarter will probable it 'll be pro rata that 's going to be less because it 's it 's only part of . |
| 13 | less because it 's the type of job that they 're doing . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , why should I love you less because of that ? ’ |
| 15 | Should one invest less because the returns are declining ? |
| 16 | They say their new ball is aimed mainly at the middle and high handicapper and , though nice and soft on the clubface , actually spins less because of the larger dimpling on the Zylin cover . |
| 17 | As has been seen , the choice of Pétain to command at Verdun was made less because of his qualities than because he happened to be available at the moment . |
| 18 | Well that would be up to the colleges , if they 're commercially astute they 'll say right yeah twenty-five quid for that , in fact it would be a lot less because it 's only for three months |
| 19 | Rather less because we 've just taken some money out of the budget . |