Example sentences of "have less " in BNC.
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| 1 | I favour a long-reaching front guard because it has less distance to travel before it strikes the opponent , and it is able to intercept attacks closer to source . |
| 2 | Kevin Power has less luck with the gauchely conceived part of the boilerman . |
| 3 | Like other reform-minded Communists in Warsaw , he finds he has less and less in common with the Party 's local base . |
| 4 | That would certainly suit the Jaguar management 's book and has less potential for political embarrassment than an unruly hostile bid . |
| 5 | The restaging generally has less bite and less fluency than Hall 's original — Susanna 's humour is more truly peasant-like — but it feels warmer and more sympathetic . |
| 6 | This topic has less attraction for ordinary policemen and women , for although they might take pleasure in thing someone is interested in their views , it is they who run the risks associated with answering questions and from being observed doing their job . |
| 7 | On the stage , where one has less time to dwell on the cadence or suggestion of the individual words , me cruelty is unendurable . |
| 8 | Likewise David Fielder 's Mazzini Dunn has less ‘ the language and appearance of a City missionary ’ than a whey-faced , mime-show pathos . |
| 9 | The cabin is usually stabilised at less than atmospheric pressure , so its air has less oxygen than usual . |
| 10 | He looked unlucky when a close third to Going Gets Tough at Newbury on his chasing debut and has less to do here . |
| 11 | The complication has less to do with breeding nasty bugs , more to do with keeping them alive . |
| 12 | The chief minister , 70-year-old Krishnan Nayanar , claims that because people are literate , Kerala has less crime and alcoholism than elsewhere in India . |
| 13 | A surrounding commercial crop where the farmer used a comparatively high sowing rate has less and less podding towards the centre of the field , he points out . |
| 14 | However , many horses that buck seem to pick their victims ; they may always be well-behaved with a competent rider and only buck when their rider has less ability . |
| 15 | Gibraltar has less , and attracts a rougher class of tax avoider , but there is business to be done . |
| 16 | Education has less to do with ‘ resources ’ and rather more to do with the attitudes of those who are providing it and their accountability . |
| 17 | The absence of H , C , and O recoils in the forward scattering spectrum indicates that the surface has less than 1 per cent of a monolayer of these atmospheric contaminants . |
| 18 | The female adopts a more passive role in conception than the male , and physiologically she has less to do . |
| 19 | It has less and less need for muscle and mechanical skills . |
| 20 | Where there is more rain and cloud the beet grows larger but it has less sugar content . |
| 21 | G. As a port Manchester has less trade now due to the use of larger ships and the change to trade eastwards with the EEC . |
| 22 | Privatization of this sort has less to do with increased public choice by individual consumers and more to do with the cheaper provision of a standard service . |
| 23 | Suppose now the pressure is increased so that diamond is the more stable form of carbon : that is , so that carbon has less energy when bonded as diamond than is graphite . |
| 24 | The strong currents in the area keep down aquatic plants which might foul the blades , and the whole system has less impact on the environment than the paraphernalia of a conventional hydroelectric station would . |
| 25 | Arthur W. Adamson 's Physical Chemistry ( Academic , 2nd ed 1980 ) has less spectroscopy ( 80 pages ) although it has a useful table of 65 spectroscopy abbreviations . |
| 26 | He has less body area to protect , is less prone to habitually lunging forward , and may possess greater rapidity of foot movement for getting into position to play the hook , pull and cut shots safely . |
| 27 | Parliament has less influence over such matters as it has either to depend on the Commission to incorporate its views into an amended proposal or to reject the Council 's common position on legislation by an absolute majority ( currently 260 votes from its 518 members ) . |
| 28 | The adult horse has a maximum of 44 teeth but often has less . |
| 29 | The custom of asking for permission to marry has less significance nowadays ; it harks back to the time when a father had control over his unmarried daughter 's money until a husband came along . |
| 30 | ‘ Well , if it 's sexual she has less discrimination than I gave her credit for . ’ |