Example sentences of "be less [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean she 's got two children to dump on me so , I do n't feel bad about that in , that we know , we decided that 's what we , we did n't mind doing and there no trouble , if fact they 're less trouble cos they 're together than they are |
| 2 | The person may then use psychological strategies such as a sequence of self-statements to change the way he perceives the stressor and ensure that thoughts and images are less anxiety provoking ( Jaremko , 1983 ) . |
| 3 | Modern siliconised tubes are less irritant than the old rubber catheters with the consequence that the walling off of the tract from the peritoneal cavity by fibrous tissue is less effective and more prone to leakage . |
| 4 | This species is very similar to O. simulans but differs in the following respects : it appears to reach a much larger size ; the spinelets of the disk are less elaborate and have fewer points to the crown ; the shape of the oral shield differs and is depressed in O. aculeata ; the adoral shields are more wing-like and separate the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate ; the arm spines are less rugose particularly the proximal ventral spines ; and finally the ventral most arm spine is not so distinctly sabre shaped as in O. simulans . |
| 5 | In fact erm , there 's been less funding per head in Wiltshire , than many other authorities in the country . |
| 6 | This had the advantage that ‘ lower ’ races could be dismissed as earlier steps in the advance that had survived into the present in parts of the world where there had been less stimulus for mental development . |
| 7 | I would have been been less chance of me doing that if I felt depressed . |
| 8 | If there had been less enthusiasm among the congregation for ufology , maybe they would have devised a public punishment for me . |
| 9 | There has been less enthusiasm for options in the Far East where the Singapore International Monetary Exchange ( SIMEX ) introduced options on its CME-linked contracts in 1987 . |
| 10 | She had worn a full-length coat because it was all she had that was decently subfusc ; now she wished that she had been less conformist . |
| 11 | However , I now see that there could have been less concurrence between them on this matter than I had supposed , and so I was a disappointment to both of them . |
| 12 | If developments of this kind were not in some sense in progress , then there would have been less likelihood of the scribe observing precisely this pattern of orderly spelling variation , because , given the variable state of the orthographic conventions known to him , he could have chosen to vary in other ways . |
| 13 | Similarly , Byers 's ( 1987 ) work in the Mount Everest National Park indicates that there has been less forest removal than envisaged and that shrubs/grassland and forested slopes below 4000 m OD are stable . |
| 14 | They could not have been less trouble , leaving the house at ten in the morning and not returning until nine in the evening , having already dined . |
| 15 | There has been less debate on those here , and I guess that over the two days of the debate there will still be less . |
| 16 | Studies by Dan Lortie ( 1975 ) , in the United States , and Colin Lacey ( 1977 ) , in the UK , have been less determinist than most . |
| 17 | In contrast , there has been less decline — and some growth — in certain areas outside the major cities . |
| 18 | It appears from my own research that while , overall , boys are seen to be less conformist , teachers prefer their type of classroom resistance to that of the girls . |
| 19 | History and the action-replay would be less kind to Scottish keepers in the years to come . |
| 20 | ( In realistic terms , there may be less opportunity for the use of counselling techniques during a brief hospital stay . ) |
| 21 | There may be less conflict for those people whose underlying commitment in marriage is to parenting rather than partnering . |
| 22 | Furthermore , Dahrendorf argues , there should be less conflict in the Marxian sense because so many of the means of production are publicly owned . |
| 23 | ‘ If we go back to the LEA , there will be less money for pupils because the central bureaucracy will gobble it up , ’ says Graham Locke , head of Audenshaw , in the Manchester borough of Tameside . ’ |
| 24 | So it 's yet another argument that you know everybody 's got their legitimate view on and erm at the end of the day there 's actually likely to be less money in the pot rather than more . |
| 25 | Faced with those kind of possible reductions in service , if there is a penny one penny more than necessary spent on administration and bureaucracy wherever it is in the youth and community programme that is gon na be less money for front line vision and the Labour group can have to think very , very carefully about that and the issue is gon na be that if we 're spending too much money or if they 're coming back to supplementary estimates which wo n't be available er given the financial situation next year if we 're having two heads of centres or whatever when we could have one that is gon na mean less money for front line services to the people of Highfields and there 'll only be one group that will be responsible for that , if that does come about and I think that 's something that we all need to bear in mind because what we were told as members of that committee is that the youth and community budget is gon na be in for some very serious times in the future and it 's mainly the government 's fault because of the way they 've decided to re-organise the situation it 's going out of our hands into the control of an unelected body and like most members of this council I think we would oppose that but that 's the reality of the situation and I could not support any increase of funds er for any community centres if I knew it was simply gon na be spent on administration . |
| 26 | Would there be less wealth in the world ? |
| 27 | Fortunately , many of these loopholes are now being closed by new amendments and , hopefully , there will be less frustration for the law-enforcers who , in the past , have seen many villains slip through the net after they have worked hard to bring them to justice . |
| 28 | If the penchant for story-telling and the glib explanation could be inhibited in most of the attackers of neo-Darwinism ( the uninhibited producers of Not So Stories ) , there would be less noise and more sense in the world , and his book not written . |
| 29 | If existing money circulates faster , there will be less shortage of money and less upward pressure on interest rates . |
| 30 | Certainly life would be happier for many more people , for there would be less neurosis , not least among women , if such a change could occur . |