Example sentences of "[noun pl] be less " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are they saying that housewives are less able to understand and resist the dangers than other workers , or that all oppressed workers should renounce pay as the way to liberation ? |
| 2 | Other reasons are less obvious , for firms have not merely reacted to change in their external environments ; many have actively sought to create new , internal sources of advantage . |
| 3 | But it can be seen that , while occupational and income motives are dominant in the Welsh borderland , employment reasons are less important in the Herefordshire survey . |
| 4 | But be warned : trade flows are less and less useful as indicators of economic performance |
| 5 | I would argue that they are as charismatic as chefs and yet their skills are less tangible and harder to gauge . |
| 6 | Boxers are less susceptible because many schools do not include the sport in their curricula and , as a consequence , many kids either start independently of school or get involved shortly after leaving school . |
| 7 | The price policies are less sensitive to the inclusion of scale economies ; with the EC minimum import price , welfare is reduced an additional 0.08% , while with the optimal tariff , welfare is increased by an extra 0.24% . |
| 8 | The figures on international operations are less impressively global on closer examination : GE 's international revenues of $15.4 billion in 1990 turn out to include $6 billion of direct exports from the United States . |
| 9 | Yet these movements undoubtedly have had a profound influence on Western political culture , especially in Germany and southern Europe where cold war attitudes are less deeply embedded and political processes have been more decentralised . |
| 10 | The influence of these factors on British animal preferences are less obvious — despite a certain amount of overlap between the British and world lists — perhaps because the range of possible choices is far more limited . |
| 11 | EMPLOYERS are less pessimistic about job prospects in the coming months , according to a new survey today . |
| 12 | It seems clear that , because they probably do not have as much of their total assets dependent upon the fortunes of a specific firm , the firm 's shareholders are less risk-averse than the manager . |
| 13 | There will , though , always be some incentive for managers to increase share price , since a more expensive company is harder to swallow and satisfied shareholders are less likely to sell . |
| 14 | The domestic duties of women who work part-time are very similar to those who are not in paid employment and in both cases are less likely to be shared by both partners . |
| 15 | There is a very natural tendency for languages to make finer distinctions in phenomena which are important to their own culture than other languages to whose culture these phenomena are less important . |
| 16 | Thus the British courts are less amenable to the study techniques applied in the United States . |
| 17 | The range can be seen to be surprisingly restricted , however , with the emphasis on basic services ( especially metalworking ) at most sites ; more specialized activities are less well represented . |
| 18 | The tax and social security authorities are less likely to consider that the motive for doing so is avoidance . |
| 19 | Ministers are fond of criticising local government because many local authorities are less than 100 per cent . |
| 20 | In this sense , the dictionary and its definitions are less suited to the recognition of domains that are more abstract or esoteric . |
| 21 | For atoms other than hydrogen , the relative changes in mass on isotopic substitution are small , and frequency shifts are less dramatic . |
| 22 | In practice , opponents are less likely to double your rescue contract , and you may wriggle out of trouble . |
| 23 | And although that may mean that stars with planets are less likely to be found in places other than co-rotation orbits , the corollary would be that they are likely to be found within such orbits . |
| 24 | And signifiers ( figures ) which resemble referents are less fully differentiated from them than signifiers ( words , discourse ) which do not . |
| 25 | As the poem progresses , we might assume that contextual or latent discourse referents are less likely to be introduced , for we read and interpret in the light of what has gone before — of previous elements in the utterance . |
| 26 | Perhaps the most familiar example of back projection , and one in which minor imperfections are less noticeable , is the view behind , or beside or in front of , the driver and passengers in a car , or , more infrequently , bus or train . |
| 27 | these forms are less common than the B strain in the UK , but have been the cause of epidemics in other areas such as Sub-Saharan Africa . |
| 28 | Retailers hiring staff to meet summer peaks are less likely to use simple fixed-term contracts . |
| 29 | Marked clinical signs are less common in older animals , although general performance may be impaired . |
| 30 | The stud fastenings are less fiddly than buttons and coloured to co-ordinate with the shirt . |