Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] be much less " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they had questioned it the chances of the orders being carried out would 've been much less of course . |
| 2 | With a 5% exclusion clause only one of these parties would have been granted representation , and the complex process of forming a government would have been much less painful . |
| 3 | The demands of the king upon the realm for sacrifices and contributions towards the war effort would have been much less effective even than they were , had not the church acted as a kind of ministry of information and propaganda . |
| 4 | If at any stage in the discussions on Monday , or in all the other discussions that I have attended in the past two years , it had been a question of majority vote , there would have been much less agreement , and to the extent that decisions had been imposed by a majority , they would have been much less effective . |
| 5 | ( This should not be taken to mean that such psychopathological trends could not appear in individuals before the coming of cultivation or delayed-return hunter-gathering , merely that they would have been much less common and could not have taken on the collective , cultural significance which they did in the Neolithic and subsequent epochs . ) |