Example sentences of "[be] less " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the reader , however , an art defined as national , made as cohesive and marketable as possible , may be less than convincing as an entity ; it may be that within a survey or an anthology there are just a limited number of interesting and attractive works . |
| 2 | And I thought there 'd be less fuss if I — ’ |
| 3 | Do not , however , plant it in shade or flowering will be less than satisfactory . |
| 4 | The demand for shell suits in shiny crinkle and trilobal fabrics is waning and there will certainly be less of these versions around by next spring as far as the more fashion conscious wearer is concerned . |
| 5 | Because bills are now lower , fewer people face large increases , so the number of people entitled to a reduction will be less than originally expected . |
| 6 | Other price rises will be less than the rate of inflation . |
| 7 | The bid failed because the estate 's value was considered to be less than the ‘ knockdown price ’ of £10 million at which the Prince had persuaded Mr Kluge to offer it to the nation , with some assessments valuing the estate at between £2 and £7 million . |
| 8 | If the atmosphere were not so charming , it would be less of a temptation . |
| 9 | It was not to pass examinations and qualify for better wages , not to raise themselves into a higher social class — though these are respectable ambitions and no doubt many of those early students felt them — but to get at knowledge for its own sake because without it their existence would be less worth to them , that the working classes demanded education and got it . |
| 10 | In practice the price obtained will be less than the generating cost , so as a business proposition it is a non-starter . |
| 11 | There also appeared to be less dissension on state aid and subsidies , a subject given added poignancy by the recent revelations about the UK Government 's ‘ sweeteners ’ to British Aerospace at the time of the takeover of Rover . |
| 12 | It is a sound maxim that you do not ask the barber whether you need a haircut , and if Prof Paulos is not a wholly disinterested party in matters of numeracy , you will certainly not expect Arno Penzias , a distinguished physicist and vice-president for research at the Bell Telephone Laboratories of AT&T , to be less than sanguine about the remorseless advance of information technology . |
| 13 | It now believes consumer prices will rise by 6.5 per cent in 1990 but growth will be 1.3 per cent , and could be less than 1 per cent excluding North Sea oil . |
| 14 | Suppose farmers have a right in law to enjoin the railway company not to set fire to their fields : the result is that the company will fit spark-suppressing equipment to their trains , and there will be less damage to the farmers ' fields . |
| 15 | The main results will be less cash to clean up spills in countries that can not afford an Alaskan scale of effort ; higher insurance rates for oil tankers ; and less seaworthy ships carrying oil down the coast of Maine . |
| 16 | This year America 's deficit and Germany 's surplus are forecast to be less than half as big , as a percentage of GNP , as they were at their peak ; Japan 's surplus may be only a quarter of its peak level . |
| 17 | The language used in Synod has often proved to be less than gentlemanly . |
| 18 | He was also considered in some quarters to be less than entirely open in his Turf operations : his trainer Tom Coulthwaite had had his licence withdrawn earlier in 1913 over the running of two Ismay horses , though this was widely held to be an injustice . |
| 19 | He reasoned that the Lord who was physically born of Mary , grew in wisdom , suffered dereliction and death , must be less than the unbegotten , impassible , deathless Father . |
| 20 | Given that , will there now be less drama ? |
| 21 | ‘ If we go back to the LEA , there will be less money for pupils because the central bureaucracy will gobble it up , ’ says Graham Locke , head of Audenshaw , in the Manchester borough of Tameside . ’ |
| 22 | The interpretation intended by Seebohm remains uncertain and as with much legislative debate it may be less than profitable to seek exactitude in a vague formulation . |
| 23 | It seems a fair bet that the water companies will be less than enthusiastic about providing the public with evidence that will provide for their own prosecution . |
| 24 | Because there is no projecting dormer , there will be less headroom , as the slope of the roof is retained in the conversion , but proportionately more light will enter the room . |
| 25 | Many felt that , as a result of joining the E.R.M. the Sterling exchange rate would be more stable against the other E.R.M. currencies ( the Deutschemark in particular ) and that there would be less requirement for hedging exchange risks in those currencies . |
| 26 | In the next chapter I examine further the idea that believers in God may be less than certain of God 's existence . |
| 27 | But in the case of ‘ meaning theism ’ there is the possibility of recognising that the evidence of God 's existence may be less than overwhelming without being negligible . |
| 28 | There must be more evidence than some existentialists desire for their ‘ splendid ’ leap of faith , but there may be less than Copleston required for his certain assurance of God 's existence . |
| 29 | The message to schools is stark and simple : if you can not persuade sufficient parents to exercise their freer choice by selecting your school , your allocation of resources will be less than your competitors ' . |
| 30 | In the British Social Attitudes Survey of 1988 , 90 per cent of people thought there to be less respect for teachers amongst parents and pupils than 10 years ago . |