Example sentences of "[is] less a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , I I think it 's less a problem to be thought that men hate women so much it is alright to be rude about women . |
| 2 | They erm there 's , there 's less , there 's less a feeling of community in there than there would be on the average street . |
| 3 | And it 's less an explicit critique of men than a consensus shared between women — they share it as much with their grandmothers as with women 's liberation . |
| 4 | Benjamin remarked , tellingly , that it is less a question of what a man 's beliefs are than the kind of man those beliefs make of him . |
| 5 | That poverty persists despite these efforts is less a reason to give up than a reason to learn from what works and what does not . |
| 6 | It is less a question of efficiency or cleanliness than a refusal to let past and present blur together . |
| 7 | This is less a matter of mass versus elite culture than it is of controlled laboratory situations : what is so highly specialised as to seem aberrant and uncharacteristic in the ( world ) of daily life … can often yield crucial information about the properties of an object of study whose familiar everyday forms obscure it . |
| 8 | He hails from Leicester where his house is less a living space , more a giant fishhouse , and his breeding successes in the hobby are many and varied , embracing snails and Severum , taking in Angels on the way . |
| 9 | Hotspur 's refusal of verse is less a deliberate snub , as with Jaques and Achilles , than a sign of how the illegality of rebellion can destroy family and loving relationships , as the sequel demonstrates all too clearly . |
| 10 | There 's a theory being nurtured in certain quarters that Microsoft Corp Windows NT is less a strategic product than it is a dike against Unix and that Microsoft is trying to freeze the marketplace long enough to bring on Cairo , the Taligent Inc/Sun Microsystems Inc Project Distributed Objects Everywhere-like object-oriented environment it 's working on . |
| 11 | At this point , the Reina Sofía is less a Centre Pompidou than a Kunsthalle , a place for temporary exhibitions and without much of a collection . |
| 12 | For him negotiating is less a game of poker and more a game of chess . |
| 13 | This is because in Canada the view that rape is less a crime of sex and more a crime of violence has been pursued with particular fervour . |
| 14 | The latter is less a cultural capital of scientific competences than a symbolic capital , based on the prestige of the university one went to , the graduate school , one 's references , one 's membership on prestigious editorial boards , grant committees , and institutes . |
| 15 | It was black , the sort of black that is less a colour than a graveyard of colours , and there was a highly-ornate runic inscription up the blade . |
| 16 | Preparation for the task of managing by means of a partnership is less a matter of structured training than a process of growth . |
| 17 | But whether Hughes is right or wrong in his overall thesis is less an issue than the incidental , sacrificial cost of an undertaking which — by another twist of tragic irony — shunts aside that which it holds most dear . |
| 18 | It all came back to that greatest of Italian national defects , which is less an attitude of xenophobia than a reflection of its people 's belief that Italy is God 's country and Italians God 's chosen . |
| 19 | For example , a belief in strength through superiority means that in Japanese groups ‘ saving face ’ is a major consideration in negotiations , whereas in east coast American groups , where everyone , at least in theory , has the same opportunity , this is less an issue and failure is rationalized ( ‘ So we blew it ’ ) . |