Example sentences of "would be less [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The resulting ungrazed vegetation would be less susceptible to erosion ; floristic diversity would increase considerably . |
| 2 | The resulting ungrazed vegetation would be less susceptible to erosion ; floristic diversity would increase considerably . |
| 3 | Between 1695 and 1705 four attempts were made to restrict membership of Parliament to men of landed wealth , in the belief that men of such independent means would be less susceptible to Court bribery , until eventually a Land Qualification Bill was passed in 1711 . |
| 4 | It would be less burdensome to the poor and more profitable to the King if Parliament were prorogued and a benevolence demanded . |
| 5 | Following well-rehearsed dismounting drills , the riflemen poured out of the Warriors and in next to no time were providing their own fire support as the Warriors reversed away at high speed to give covering fire from positions where they would be less vulnerable to short-range anti-tank weapons . |
| 6 | Also , such a system would be less vulnerable to speculative attack . |
| 7 | Laborit was investigating the potential of controlled hypothermia , that is , chilling patients during surgical operations so that they would be less reactive to any disturbance , and the sedative properties of promethazine helped to achieve the effects he sought . |
| 8 | It was inconvenient ; the prospects for private accumulation in the future was slimmer ; the expectation that public enterprise would be less responsive to needs than free traders gave rise to fears of a general decline in wealth and amenity , |
| 9 | Movies only needed to be social when the plot demanded it , and even if some kind of political crisis had to be depicted in a particular story then the attitude or position adopted by the movie would be less important to audiences than the logic of the plot . |
| 10 | Small parties would be the losers ; senators would have to pay more attention to their constituents and would be less beholden to their party machines . |
| 11 | that birth parents would be less reluctant to physically relinquish a child for adoption , if existing links could be maintained . |
| 12 | For example , an ambiguous stop segment at the beginning of would be less likely to be identified as than if it were at the beginning of . |