Example sentences of "and is [adv] less [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His suggestion that one is always ‘ at liberty to go and incorporate himself into any other community , or to agree with others to begin a new one … in any part of the world , they can find free and unpossessed ’ has been ridiculed , and is even less plausible now than when he made it . |
| 2 | The tucuxi is , however only half the length of the boto , and is thus less able to break out of gill-nets when captured . |
| 3 | The MATIF 's eurodeutschmark future trades at much lower volume , and is presumably less liquid , than LIFFE 's equivalent product , even though the latter is not yet supported by an option . |
| 4 | Deviance is a much wider and more vague concept than is crime , and is therefore less easy to define . |
| 5 | But much will hang also on the extent to which teachers succumb to the temptation to teach for the test , and thereby create a classroom atmosphere that focuses narrowly on learning the content and the skills that will be tested , and is therefore less lively , less varied , more repetitive and more anxiety-provoking for the pupils . |
| 6 | This category , in contrast with the business salariat , owes its existence to the social democratic expansion of state services under the sign of an ideology of state-sponsored social improvement , and is therefore less likely to subscribe wholeheartedly to the traditional middle class values of personal independence and responsibility , or to go along so readily with the middle class complaints against ‘ wasteful state spending ’ and ‘ excessive taxation ’ . |
| 7 | Hong Kong remains almost as uncompetitive as it has been at anytime since 1986 , and is far less competitive than a year ago . |
| 8 | This practice has been discouraged by the training authorities and is now less common . |
| 9 | The resulting solution is then precipitated to form a transparent film which is largely a tangled-up felt of individual molecules , and is much less crystalline . |
| 10 | It is most frequently encountered in old Caucasian , nomadic and village rugs , and is much less common in workshop items . |