Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [vb mod] [be] less " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My chances of making an honest marriage or even of keeping up my business would be less than dust without the good will of my neighbours . |
| 2 | Additionally , people who can say in advance that their income will be less than their tax allowances can register to receive their interest gross . |
| 3 | It was not to pass examinations and qualify for better wages , not to raise themselves into a higher social class — though these are respectable ambitions and no doubt many of those early students felt them — but to get at knowledge for its own sake because without it their existence would be less worth to them , that the working classes demanded education and got it . |
| 4 | For the top third of the project sample their problem may be less of a conceptual one , but there seems to be an automatic assumption that a single division on a scale represents a single unit of some kind . |
| 5 | The young mother may feel that she has nothing to offer — after all , much as she loves her children , their conversation may be less than stimulating . |