Example sentences of "[adv] less [adj] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked rather less plump than he felt now . |
| 2 | He looked rather less rational than his dog . |
| 3 | Daphne , whom Cecilia suspected of being rather less well-off than she was herself , though this was not a matter to delve into , phoned her just after six on alternate evenings and she phoned Daphne on the others . |
| 4 | Salman Rushdie 's The Satanic Verses illustrated that while our now largely secular society regards blasphemy as rather less heinous than it did a hundred years ago some parts of our society are offended to such an extent that the call for retribution goes beyond censorship . |
| 5 | He might have been rather less relieved if he could have read her mind . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , there 's no point in it being so beautiful if you ca n't ever go out in it because it 's raining , ’ said Betty , revealing a childish streak in her character which Lydia found rather less appealing than her habitual bossiness . |
| 7 | Now that she saw Rupert again he was rather less interesting than she had remembered — a little older , slightly inhibited in his conversation , and unresponsive to her semi-flirtatious looks and remarks in a way that puzzled her . |
| 8 | Fujitsu Ltd 's threatened losses have caused the company to run afoul of Nippon Investors Service , one of the Japanese credit rating agencies — in Japan the rating agencies are rather less independent than their US counterparts — to review its Triple-A rating of Fujitsu 's long-term bonds and its A1-Plus domestic commercial paper rating for a possible downgrade . |
| 9 | The glass makes this little , obscure fly , who had the cheek to interrupt my wonderful essay , seem suddenly rather less little , and rather less obscure than I 'd thought previously . |
| 10 | ‘ Well ? ’ demands Tite , a little too sharply and Summerchild becomes rather less forthcoming than he had intended . |
| 11 | Obviously , you are expected to ‘ use ’ them somehow , but what you are supposed to do with them is rather less obvious than it was in the Hardy Hall case . |
| 12 | But besides the falls I 've just mentioned there are many more falls and forces like Cotter Force , Catrigg Force and Scaleber Force which , perhaps because they are a little less accessible , are visited by far fewer people , although they are also arguably less impressive because they do n't fall as far or there are n't as many of them . |
| 13 | Sign language is almost essential in shops too , but it 's a little less embarrassing because you can be more discreet . |
| 14 | He conveys our variousness because he includes the parts of our life that he hates , as well as those he loves , and notices the many almost unknowable communities in our midst , people only a little less mysterious than his group of Aztecs who came over in stone boats . |
| 15 | The contributors ' arguments became a little less convincing when they came to explain why mantras were used . |
| 16 | She looked a little less hollow-eyed than she had a week ago . |
| 17 | THE SEABOARD IS a little less Eastern than you might have remembered it but to the enterprising Americans this is not a problem . |
| 18 | Your Watson , then , needs to be just a little less intelligent than you conceive your readers as being . |
| 19 | The gaps between them are so big that if you plunge your arm through into the mantle , the clam is quite unable to grip it — though the experiment is a little less unnerving if it is tried first with a post . |
| 20 | Mrs Blakey , only a little less sceptical than her husband of this line of talk , nevertheless recalled how Timothy Gedge had affected her when he 'd come on to the telephone with a woman 's voice , and her bewilderment when the silence had first begun in the house . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He is obviously less discreet than he used to be . ’ |
| 23 | Describing how the boys of Cable Street would ‘ constitute themselves , without asking the permission of the War Office , into a small regiment ’ , Besant provided another inventory of this street-fighting armoury : Of the last point , I think we can be sure , although Walter Besant was obviously less confident that they were armed with ‘ real ’ guns . |
| 24 | Since rights of subject access have been given , this is obviously less important than it was , but getting the councillor to see the file could still be important for pre-1989 information and reports from third parties which the parents and pupil still have no right to see . |
| 25 | Our knowledge of morbid mental states is much less definite than our knowledge of many physical disturbances . |
| 26 | Both were much less efficient than they are today ; they used much more coal . |
| 27 | If exchange relationships were based totally on unscrupulous self-interested behaviour , the resulting distrust and the cost of legal action to enforce contracts would render market coordination much less efficient than it is in the presence of trust built up through networks and embedded social expectations that contracts will be honoured . |
| 28 | The former makes the point that genetically engineered bacteria tend to be much less viable than their naturally occurring counterparts and thus tend to die off rapidly . |
| 29 | In practice , although this way of thinking was one perspective from which we looked at our material , it proved much less useful than we expected . |
| 30 | … 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 . |