Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [adv] be less [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britain 's stance on sovereignty has traditionally been less aggressive than many other claimants , such as Argentina and Chile — both of which claim overlapping portions of the British Antarctic Territory — or even Australia and France ( New Scientist , 21 October , 1982 p 140 and 6 January , p 4 ) . |
| 2 | The results of this type of work have always been less dramatic than people are comfortable with . |
| 3 | During the campaign period the DPP had purposely been less strident in its controversial advocacy of Taiwanese independence . |
| 4 | For behaviour has both been less studied than some parts of morphology , and its inheritance is generally too complex to lay bare the elementary principles . |
| 5 | Isabel Lavender had always been less good than most people at losing face , since she had never learned how to compensate for it , she had never learned to wallow , to conceal partial humiliation in an expression of total defeat . |
| 6 | To Mauriac 's lesson in Gaullist orthodoxy , de Gaulle replied : " Politics have never been less inviting than at this moment . |