Example sentences of "even less [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When indirect taxes — taxes such as VAT which are levied mainly on commodities purchased — are taken into account the tax burden on income is even less progressive . |
| 2 | Retreat was even less inviting , and consultation with the others impracticable . |
| 3 | Even less familiar sounds upset her , but then barn owls do have excellent hearing — they can hear a mouse moving on a woodland floor during a gale-force wind . |
| 4 | Okay , its three-litre V6 engine was reasonably lusty and the lack of buffeting with the hood down was impressive , but the chassis was even less inspiring than I expected . |
| 5 | If you make him feel that he should be getting dressed , and he tries to do so before he is ready , in rehabilitation terms , he will certainly increase his spasticity and make himself even less capable of learning the movements . |
| 6 | But they seem even less capable of moving the system to improve matters . |
| 7 | Now that the national museums no longer have their purchase grants awarded separately from grant in aid for running costs , they fear that those will be further whittled away and they will be even less capable of competing for major masterpieces . |
| 8 | Paul Robeson — himself a belatedly famed son of the Law School — might embody law and song , and F.R. Scott might embody law and poetry , but even he recognised the more profound call of the muse : ‘ poetry first , ’ he had said ‘ and the poetic element all the way through , ’ which in the hurly-burly of the clothing industry , was even less possible . |
| 9 | On the F-Plan it is even less possible because if you are consuming 1,000 calories a day in the form of fibre-rich meals a percentage of those calories is not digested , as explained in previous chapters . |
| 10 | A top-level sprinter could not be a top-level javelin thrower and even less possible is it that he could reach the top in another sport as well . |
| 11 | The obscure world of warfare between microbial species had suggested some promising substances , but was even less successful than chemotherapy . |
| 12 | Apart from the symphonies , Mozart 's compositions of 1788 include the Piano Concerto in C , K.503 , written in February ( it is not known if Mozart ever played it in public ) ; several new numbers for the Vienna première of Don Giovanni in May ( despite starring Caterina Cavalieri as Donna Elvira and Aloysia Lange as Donna Anna , the opera was even less successful there than Figaro , having only 15 further performances ) ; three piano trios written for Puchberg ; a piano sonata , and a quantity of light vocal music . |
| 13 | Even less visible except to immediate participants and police is the routine ‘ slow rioting ’ of Saturday night street brawling , which ( according to the perceptions of all the chiefs constables I have interviewed in a research project over the last year ) is assuming more menacing and violent proportions throughout the country . |
| 14 | Another , even less visible , result of the Bennite rivalism was the demise of Big Flame as a formal organization . |
| 15 | That had been even less good than usual . |
| 16 | Indeed , there is even less available information than in the case of derelict land ( discussed in Chapter 6 ) . |
| 17 | Clark 's introduction of death is even less convincing and here , I think , we might even object to the use of the same form of words for animals and human beings . |
| 18 | When the theoretical assumptions themselves are examined the case is even less convincing . |
| 19 | This approach has recently been subject to an effective critique by Forty ( 1986 ) , who points out that designers have always been handmaidens to the business interests they serve , and to separate them out as self-determined arbiters of cultural form is even less convincing than in the case of high art which strives for such autonomy . |
| 20 | If it is difficult to define inner cities in terms of some geometric configuration of urban morphology , it is even less easy to identify the inner city within any national political economy . |
| 21 | I never liked him wearing them , but I liked them even less round Quigley 's neck . |
| 22 | Most often the owners do not know how to care for these exotic pets , and care even less that tremendous suffering is involved . |
| 23 | He slept even less that night than the previous one . |
| 24 | But if spatial relations within a phenomenological space can tell us nothing about the numerical diversity of ontological objects , there is even less that can be gleaned in this respect from temporal relations within a phenomenological time . |
| 25 | Federman 's later novel Take It Or Leave It ( 1976 ) appears to be even less orderly than its predecessor . |
| 26 | With a Eurobank , I would be even less sure . |
| 27 | If the main wheel is further forward , the glider will have a stronger tendency to weathercock than in the air , and the rudder will be even less effective at preventing this . |
| 28 | After Edward IV 's restoration in 1471 opposition to the Woodvilles became even less effective as a rallying cry , as Clarence 's isolation and ultimate downfall suggest . |
| 29 | After Edward IV 's restoration in 1471 opposition to the Woodvilles became even less effective as a rallying cry , as Clarence 's isolation and ultimate downfall suggest . |
| 30 | Other schemes for the training of diplomats were less ambitious and even less effective . |