Example sentences of "is less " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Story of Art highlights change and development , sadly at the expense of art which is less varied , of however high a quality . |
| 2 | A characteristic two pages of the text are given to Corot 's landscapes , five pictures being cited , though the reader is less fortunate than the lecture audience , as only two are illustrated . |
| 3 | It is less removed from the ordinary conception of a portrait arrangement . |
| 4 | Meanwhile the interesting Hawksmoor is less interesting than Dyer , and may be meant to be . |
| 5 | The novelist is less inward , less collusive , with her than he is with her husband — a relation fully consonant with Eric 's law of nature — but he wants her view to be respected , and works it too hard as a purchase on wrong thinking . |
| 6 | The facts show a good son , one who is less quick to see the jokes . |
| 7 | Piano wire is less expensive than cable but requires careful handling . |
| 8 | Mammography is less accurate at detecting cancers in younger women . |
| 9 | This fear of open debate continues even when the publication is by a retired officer and when control is less easy for the chief officer to enforce : |
| 10 | Here the marginality is less transitory and occurs in the post-tribal situation where the concept of liminality is less familiar to the discipline , even though transitions across spatial and temporal boundaries still create epistemological changes of the kind Turner describes . |
| 11 | Here the marginality is less transitory and occurs in the post-tribal situation where the concept of liminality is less familiar to the discipline , even though transitions across spatial and temporal boundaries still create epistemological changes of the kind Turner describes . |
| 12 | Do you really imagine that your back is less inspiring than your front ? |
| 13 | This method of bandaging provides a firm grip that is less likely to slide of and fall in festoons during the ensuing bout . |
| 14 | Its purely endogenous nature is well illustrated by the facts that it can be evoked by the absence of a stimulus such as a gap in a long sequence of evenly spaced tones and that the actual probability and significance of the stimulus is less important in determining whether or not the P300 will occur than the subject 's perception of its probability and significance . |
| 15 | In 1990–91 the minimum benefit someone could receive was 50p , however from April 1991 benefit will be paid even if it is less than 50p a week . |
| 16 | However , when these figures are broken down , it can be seen that certain groups , such as single women over 75 , are less likely to have an occupational pension , and , if they do , the average amount is less . |
| 17 | The insertion of the needle is less painful than the hypodermic counterpart , but may cause an animal to arch his back or tighten his muscles . |
| 18 | Linearity error is less than 0.5 . |
| 19 | It is less easy , but more interesting , to try to understand why ancient radical doubts about the ability or language to express a genuine extra-linguistic reality have been revived in recent decades to the point where they seem to have achieved an almost popular appeal . |
| 20 | Again , English departments can be unhelpful about participating in schemes for training academics how to teach , claiming that teaching literature is less easily defined and methodologized than teaching engineering or economics . |
| 21 | Every serious practising critic knows a secret which is less often publicly discussed , namely , that there exists no ready-made corridor between the sealed chambers of stylistic investigation and that equally unventilated space in which the object of study is reconstituted as narrative structure . |
| 22 | Yet one suspects that his real significance is less that of a prophet of European disintegration than of a poet of the American Puritan temperament . |
| 23 | However , he begins , after a fashion that is less rare with him than is commonly supposed , by apologizing for the impressionism that supplies him with the terms he needs : |
| 24 | The Economist Intelligence Unit concluded in its World Commodity Outlook 1989 : ‘ Short of climatic intervention — to which tea is less vulnerable than most other major crops — a continuation of the downtrend seems unavoidable : we expect London auction prices to average £1/kg , or even less , in 1989 . ’ |
| 25 | Up to 40 flights a day bring in weapons and ammunition , including Frog 7s , a short range surface-to-surface missile that is less expensive than the Scud missiles already provided . |
| 26 | But because each refuses to acknowledge its neighbours , the net effect in terms of the streetscape is less than zero . |
| 27 | The news for United 's vast following is less euphoric ; a subdued crowd of 26,698 , the backlash to the Derby defeat , saw them fail to add to the three goals of the first leg . |
| 28 | But the French connection is less clear . |
| 29 | But Pat Butler , a school governor and a Conservative county councillor , is less sanguine . |
| 30 | The Leftist Unity party is , in effect , led and controlled by the Spanish Communist Party , but Mr Anguita has wisely realised that this new name is less dangerous . ’ |