Example sentences of "less [adj] [conj] it [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the whole incident was less memorable than it should have been — she seemed like an ordinary human being , very neat in a coat and skirt , talking about her hotel at Woodstock . |
| 2 | The restored importance of indirect taxes , whatever its source , must , in the context of our earlier analysis , have made the UK tax system less progressive than it would otherwise have been . |
| 3 | The movement towards indirect taxation has therefore made the UK tax system less progressive than it would otherwise have been . |
| 4 | A walk was exactly what she needed , although the continuing hot weather made it less pleasant than it might have been . |
| 5 | The overall picture presented in his article is a little less clear than it might be , if only because of the multiplicity of interesting observations ( fortunately Bolinger provides us with copious examples ) but it may be summarized as follows : ( a ) Adjectives may qualify either the referent of a noun or its sense without simultaneously applying to the other . |
| 6 | It is less clear whether it can be used to measure plant area though a possible technique is to redesign its optical system to focus on a small area and then use it to scan a larger area , agreeing that a reading above some pre-determined level is ON , below it is OFF . |
| 7 | As ever , the men look more impressive than the women , but the difference is less marked than it used to be . |
| 8 | The farmer , himself a member of the planning committee , had recently removed his stockman from the cottage had built him a modern bungalow on the farm , an arrangement now recognised as less altruistic than it might appear . |
| 9 | But the result was almost always less favourable than it should have been ; it was often actually unfavourable , often even very bad — an injury that , an injury that , in a patient so treated , it is difficult to repair . |
| 10 | Unfortunately the dividing line between norm and criterion-referencing is far less distinct than it would appear , since the establishing of standards of performance used for assessment criteria must by definition imply the use of some form of yardstick or norm . |
| 11 | The use of eye and brow liners is now more refined and less obvious than it used to be , but is nevertheless emerging as an important element in even the most natural looks . |
| 12 | However , this is much less widespread than it used to be and two surgeons from Guys Hospital in London and Withington Hospital in Manchester believe this is a mistake . |
| 13 | There was also sadly a degree of controversy with regard to some records , making the work less valuable than it might otherwise have been . |
| 14 | As heavy water does not spontaneously give off heat from its deuterium fusing , so is it even less likely that it would when inside palladium . |
| 15 | This is a little more expensive than a normal invitation but it is less likely that it will get lost . |
| 16 | When in doubt , beef it up — the more powerful the force , the less likely that it will have to fight and the more likely that it will succeed in its mission . |
| 17 | Hangman is well known as a spelling game , but it is less useful than it should be , because it is usually played as a pure guessing game . |
| 18 | The political limitations of the approach , in particular its inability to deal with differences between women , have made it less powerful than it used to be . |
| 19 | ‘ If the track authority is less cost-efficient than it might be , it 's going to shackle what we can do as an operator , ’ he says . |
| 20 | Is the Minister aware that there is a feeling among farmers that the Ministry is being less helpful than it used to be in dealing with compensation claims arising from low flying by jets or helicopters ? |
| 21 | It is very difficult to see how Germany is less centralised and it should be clear that the ‘ subsidiarity ’ principle is merely an allocation of competence , as in the hierarchy of a company , rather than a distribution of power . |
| 22 | Ideas that arise in Quadrant 4 may be very exciting to the person concerned , but be seen as trivial by those who have to implement them , with the result that the innovation process is less effective than it might be . |
| 23 | And devolution might be less effective than it should be if , as could well be the case in Scotland for example , the support for one particular party was such that there was very little likelihood of a change of control at elections . |
| 24 | … in-service training is often much less effective than it could be because it is based on an ‘ educational model ’ i.e. is focussed largely on the individual . |
| 25 | The susceptibility of individuals to disease ; if animals are kept or treated in such a way that their immune system does not work very well , that in itself tells you that their welfare is less good than it might be . |
| 26 | Each of these three events involved the legal process or changes in the law , and as such inevitably make the censorship issue in libraries less localized than it used to be even after the Obscene Publications Act of 1959 . |
| 27 | It is worth remembering that with increasing age , the symptoms of cystitis may be less dramatic but it can cause incontinence of urine . |
| 28 | I understand from British Rail that the impact was less severe than it might have been , since both trains were on the move at the time , but some 90 passengers and the driver of the Portsmouth train were injured . |
| 29 | In truth , the task was less daunting than it could have been , partly because a considerable number of our sportspersons did not ( Gasp ! ) regularly purchase the magazine and were therefore unlikely to spot the odd line which might interest m'learned friends . |
| 30 | Through binoculars from the press box , it was no less baffling than it must have been from the pitch-side dug-out . |