Example sentences of "been less " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was that simple , and at a more leisurely pace would have been less of a caper and more a proper holiday . |
| 2 | And been less of a direct rival to her Dad , and all , McLeish thought , and stuck to his line . |
| 3 | In many regions drought has been less of a problem for lawns this year , and the mowing programme continues |
| 4 | They could not have been less trouble , leaving the house at ten in the morning and not returning until nine in the evening , having already dined . |
| 5 | There has been less of an incentive for capital developments in France and more emphasis on other , more socially desirable policies . |
| 6 | Similarly , Byers 's ( 1987 ) work in the Mount Everest National Park indicates that there has been less forest removal than envisaged and that shrubs/grassland and forested slopes below 4000 m OD are stable . |
| 7 | If he had done the shock would have been less but on the other hand , his holiday would have been spoilt . |
| 8 | However , I now see that there could have been less concurrence between them on this matter than I had supposed , and so I was a disappointment to both of them . |
| 9 | In contrast , there has been less decline — and some growth — in certain areas outside the major cities . |
| 10 | If developments of this kind were not in some sense in progress , then there would have been less likelihood of the scribe observing precisely this pattern of orderly spelling variation , because , given the variable state of the orthographic conventions known to him , he could have chosen to vary in other ways . |
| 11 | Studies by Dan Lortie ( 1975 ) , in the United States , and Colin Lacey ( 1977 ) , in the UK , have been less determinist than most . |
| 12 | And this was cracked fracture from osteoporosis now , if I had been getting H R T at that time I might have been less disfigured . |
| 13 | This had the advantage that ‘ lower ’ races could be dismissed as earlier steps in the advance that had survived into the present in parts of the world where there had been less stimulus for mental development . |
| 14 | Since then there has been less of a general shortage of labour , but rather a shortfall in skilled , rather than unskilled labour . |
| 15 | The increases have been less of late because inflation 's dropped and we 've reduced our K value . |
| 16 | Perhaps if the age-gap of eight years between them had been less … perhaps if she herself had stayed at home for a few years instead of finding separate lodgings as soon as she 'd finished her A levels and joined Grantham and Marsh as a junior copywriter … |
| 17 | There has been less debate on those here , and I guess that over the two days of the debate there will still be less . |
| 18 | If there had been less enthusiasm among the congregation for ufology , maybe they would have devised a public punishment for me . |
| 19 | She had worn a full-length coat because it was all she had that was decently subfusc ; now she wished that she had been less conformist . |
| 20 | There has been less enthusiasm for options in the Far East where the Singapore International Monetary Exchange ( SIMEX ) introduced options on its CME-linked contracts in 1987 . |
| 21 | There 's work that needs to be done , in most of the major sports grounds , but that 's proceeding and there 's , if you can imagine that there 's , in Shrewsbury for example , a lot of the work which we would want to be done on the grounds have been less than enthusiastic about doing , because they 're likely not to be there for very long . |
| 22 | As between the other three , I have not expressed a particular preference , but because no developer has come forward in connection with sector three , there has perhaps been less detailed attention paid to that sector the A fifty nine , than to others . |
| 23 | In fact erm , there 's been less funding per head in Wiltshire , than many other authorities in the country . |
| 24 | And it 's been less than it 's between six weeks and five months has it ? |
| 25 | Now for some of our members choice is is not something that they are fortunate enough to have because they are very needy and they do not have perhaps all the education that some of the tory party perhaps have , that they have been less fortunate in many , many ways . |
| 26 | Orders growth has been less strong in other regions |
| 27 | I would have been been less chance of me doing that if I felt depressed . |