Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] be less " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was able to organize her day so that even though she seemed to be less harassed than Maggie the meals were always delicious and on time . |
| 2 | Within the EEC the commitment to the Community seemed to be less ; or at least it was rather different . |
| 3 | His material fortunes always seemed to be less stable than those of most rich men . |
| 4 | It was difficult to see her through the dazzling spurts of fire ; she seemed to be less and less there . |
| 5 | But what I thought of as a contribution often seemed to be less appreciated than the things I thought of as irrelevant and boring . |
| 6 | On July 21 the Finance Minister , Nasir Abdel allah al Rawdan indicated that the government did not intend to borrow the entire sum authorized by the decree ; he expected the actual amount borrowed to be less than $24,000 million . |
| 7 | With an uncertainty expected to be less than 10–7 in a value of about 137.035 it should be possible to test directly quantum electrodynamics , or QED , the quantum theory of electromagnetism . |
| 8 | Presidents who followed less radical policies or more open alliances with the property-owning national and foreign sectors , they felt to be less sympathetic to their cause and , therefore , less likely to respond to their wishes . |
| 9 | Contrary to popular misconception , Britain received more than any other Western European country , yet its subsequent economic record proved to be less impressive . |
| 10 | Parties associated with policies of increasing taxation and growing public expenditure appeared to be less popular at the ballot box . |
| 11 | The barrier of poisonous gas appeared to be less penetrable than the rock that had been tunnelled through . |
| 12 | In contrast , by the late 1980s , the inner city appeared to be less prominent on the American political agenda . |
| 13 | The mothers appeared to be less particular , but were still Susceptible to the argument that skin care is a special and personal problem . |
| 14 | Then there appeared to be less common sources per unit volume of space for the nearby sources than for the distant ones . |
| 15 | Despite his own patriotic convictions , Balcon initially avoided national subjects in pursuit of his new-found belief that ‘ films had to be less and less parochial and more and more international in appeal . ’ |
| 16 | The period between the selected control visit and the previous visit had to be less than six months . |
| 17 | The ‘ society-as-parent ’ school is further illustrated by quoting from respondents interviewed by the author , though fewer of these took this position than were committed to a ‘ defence of kinship ’ view and their views tended to be less strongly and less explicitly-stated . |
| 18 | The differences between Blacks and Whites were fewer than have been found in other surveys , though Blacks ' attitudes tended to be less favourable . |
| 19 | With Asians the picture in Leeds appears more straightforward : they tended to be less involved at every stage . |
| 20 | The lunch-time conversation tended to be less interesting than that of Rose and Victorine in the kitchen . |
| 21 | Dietary intake of diary products was lower ( p<0.02 ) and fat intake also tended to be less ( p=0.09 ) in the patients . |
| 22 | At day 7 , however , histamine concentrations tended to be less in the L group than in the C and U groups but this was statistically insignificant ( Fig 8 ) . |
| 23 | Ukrainians tended to be less troublesome than Poles because most of their gentry had been Polonized or Russified in the two centuries prior to 1800 . |