Example sentences of "[adv] less [adj] than it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Hearse Arête is certainly worth a mention , being much less macabre than it sounds , simply the companion to Undertake 's Buttress ! |
| 3 | Particularly , the notion of ‘ equivalent ways of doing or saying the same thing ’ to which Weiner and Labov obliquely refer ( see above ) is much less straightforward than it seems . |
| 4 | After the Edinburgh summit , that looks much less likely than it did and that can only be good news for Courtaulds . |
| 5 | The scene that greeted her at the top was already less frightening than it had been when Phoebe arrived . |
| 6 | It was , he noticed , distinctly less warm than it had been , with an east wind blowing as they turned into the Parade . |
| 7 | The whole business here at Miss Bedwelty 's seemed far less daunting than it did out on the industrial estate . |
| 8 | Qualifying is a young man 's job , it requires a huge burst of adrenalin ; also , except at Monaco , it is far less significant than it seems . |
| 9 | But even here the other member of the department interviewed explained that the syllabus was far less prescriptive than it appeared , and that most members of the department interpreted it fairly flexibly . |
| 10 | One thing is certain : to the head , the manager or education officer in school , the official syllabus often appears far less important than it does to the curriculum committee or the outside observer . |
| 11 | Bedford was the only new earl created by Edward III after his family settlement in 1362 , and his patronage of the nobility was markedly less generous than it had been in the first two decades of his reign . |
| 12 | Damaged by the Gulf crisis and still without having achieved electoral reform , Kaifu 's position by the end of 1990 looked considerably less secure than it had done in the immediate aftermath of the February elections . |