Example sentences of "[ex0] [vb mod] [be] less [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There may be less conflict for those people whose underlying commitment in marriage is to parenting rather than partnering . |
| 2 | ( In realistic terms , there may be less opportunity for the use of counselling techniques during a brief hospital stay . ) |
| 3 | Litigation may also have a valuable contribution to make in activating and mobilising a constituency of common interests , thereby helping to establish and strengthen a collective political identity on the part of otherwise somewhat amorphous interests groups such as environmentalists , or peace campaigners , among whom there may be less cohesion and common identity than is the case with other campaigning groups . |
| 4 | If developing countries tap existing sources for money to improve communications , then there may be less cash for other projects . |
| 5 | Lay estates , by contrast , are likely to show perhaps greater diversity , but there may be less information from which to reconstruct the pre-Conquest arrangements . |
| 6 | And he also insisted that the crisis is to deep that there have to be important changes at the top within the union : ‘ There must be less politics , more work … |
| 7 | Furthermore , Dahrendorf argues , there should be less conflict in the Marxian sense because so many of the means of production are publicly owned . |
| 8 | There should be less negativism about our role in Europe . |
| 9 | When asked about audit regulation and reporting requirements , 478 firms ( 81% ) said there should be less control on work done for small companies , while 396 firms ( 67% ) wanted more regulation controlling the work done for large companies . |
| 10 | And there 'll be less fuss . |
| 11 | That way there 'd be less chance of getting caught . |
| 12 | And if we put a little bit more effort into specifying requirements more tightly , then there 'd be less argument at the end of the day as to whether we 've done a good job or a bad job . |
| 13 | And I thought there 'd be less fuss if I — ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | still budget , now you would have some decrease in costs because there would be less phone calls , there would be less paper , less trouble . |
| 16 | In the debate over Nato itself , the Europeanists in Washington reiterated the arguments of the British ( and other Western Europeans ) that without a fairly specific American military commitment there would be less chance of a speedy restoration of political stability — and therefore of economic recovery — in continental Europe . |
| 17 | This link would affect far fewer people , there would be less disturbance to Darlington and its residents , and the bypass would be utilised fully . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Many felt that , as a result of joining the E.R.M. the Sterling exchange rate would be more stable against the other E.R.M. currencies ( the Deutschemark in particular ) and that there would be less requirement for hedging exchange risks in those currencies . |
| 20 | Some groups can be more individualistic where the individual identifies less strongly , there are fewer icons , there 's less erm dogmatic er certainty about doctrine and so on , so more room for an individual variation and those groups will be relatively er looser and there would be less identification of the individual with the leader or the leading principals . |
| 21 | It may perhaps be true that 79 per cent of trees cut down are cleared by people needing to plant food or gather fuel , and that , if there were fewer people , there would be less need . |
| 22 | There would be less room for challenging productions . |
| 23 | In any of these cases , there would be less pressure on land . |
| 24 | Well , firstly the decision 's the Councils , obviously , not mine personally , erm there would be less pressure certainly to do that erm because , as I 've said earlier , the charges will allow us to protect the Home Care Service . |
| 25 | Consequently , the Civil Justice Review recommended that there should be a single costs regime for High Court and County Court actions , except for county court actions below £3,000 , since in such smaller cases fixed costs should be attractive and there would be less desire to seek to take such actions in the High Court . |
| 26 | Further , it was hoped that if nothing happened during the trial which newspapers could turn into titillating copy for their readers , then there would be less incentive for the papers to give widespread coverage . |
| 27 | still budget , now you would have some decrease in costs because there would be less phone calls , there would be less paper , less trouble . |
| 28 | There would be less forest and more open land that could be grazed or farmed . ) |
| 29 | There would be less lottizzazione , ’ says Senator Filippo Cavazzuti , an economist and influential member of the Party of the Democratic Left . |
| 30 | If existing money circulates faster , there will be less shortage of money and less upward pressure on interest rates . |