Example sentences of "to be less " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since black people in the southern states have suffered more injustices at the hands of the law they tend to be less likely to hand out death sentences . |
| 2 | They have interpreted Salters 's study of Belfast secondary schools as showing catholics to be less prejudiced than protestants . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's supposed to be less fattening . ’ |
| 4 | Painted steel is likely to be less durable than the other kinds , but it is equally important to choose strong frames that are not likely to buckle : ( aluminium may be more likely than steel to bend under strain ) . |
| 5 | A stand-up , straight-backed style has proved to be less effective against professional opponents although Biggs claims that attempts to make him more aggressive were counter-productive against Tyson . |
| 6 | General Noriega tried to isolate opposition within the military after a similar coup attempt last year by promoting loyal officers to the important Strategic Military Council and General Staff , and retiring those thought to be less enthusiastic in their support of him . |
| 7 | Next year 's outlook for the banks is expected to be less cloudy . |
| 8 | However , there appear to be less sinister reasons behind its absence from the leaked papers . |
| 9 | It was important to Michael Ramsey , not only then but much later , that before Frank 's death he felt him to be less far apart over religion . |
| 10 | Although there is a general trend for the private offices of many political heads of state to increase in size and influence , the British Prime Minister still appears to be less well endowed with this type of political support than leaders of most other states . |
| 11 | Hence the encouragement for voluntary schools , City Technology Colleges , and for schools and hospitals to ‘ opt out ’ ; inducements for universities to be less dependent on state finance ; promotion of council house sales and housing action trusts . |
| 12 | Parties associated with policies of increasing taxation and growing public expenditure appeared to be less popular at the ballot box . |
| 13 | As tribal culture weakens , status and power will come to be less connected with an outward demonstration of wealth , and this may pave the way for a more powerful generation of entrepreneurs as specific commercial objectives come to supersede those of status . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He seemed to relax more after he had spoken , to be less fixedly focused on the empty road . |
| 16 | The reason for their success seems to me to be less due to their perceptiveness concerning pre-capitalist conditions than due to the depth of their analysis of the nature of labour under capitalism . |
| 17 | English family relationships are said to be less strong than those of Asians , but most English people would be deeply shocked if their grandmother or grandfather , coming to visit them , or their young brother or sister , was held in detention by people with quasi-police powers , accused of lying and then sent back ; or if their husband or wife , coming to join them after a long separation , was further delayed for years and then told that they were not the people they claimed to be and hence had no right to come at all . |
| 18 | In environments in which there is little daily rhythmicity , the development of daily rhythms occurs ( see above ) but it is not quite normal insofar as the amplitudes ( sizes ) of the rhythms are likely to be less . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | It wants to be less reliant on the depressed shipping industry but it also wants to shake off the tag of being the world 's market of last resort and is determined to win safer contracts . |
| 21 | It wants to be less reliant on the depressed shipping industry but it also wants to shake off the tag of being the world 's market of last resort and is determined to win safer contracts . |
| 22 | Contrary to popular misconception , Britain received more than any other Western European country , yet its subsequent economic record proved to be less impressive . |
| 23 | The argument is likely to be less over the substance of the legislation than over whether the system can be implemented . |
| 24 | If it is to do this in a more precise , less trade-distorting way , it is bound to be less helpful to big and efficient farms than to small ones . |
| 25 | These are mainly party intellectuals who still profess communism , but want it to be less centralising and more democratic . |
| 26 | Elections have to be less bogus when supervised by Yankee foundations with cash and counsel . |
| 27 | Opinion polls have revealed that , while Americans are reluctant to pay more for energy , they dearly want to be less reliant on imports from the Gulf . |
| 28 | Sales and investments are likely to be less affected than in a chapter 11 filing . |
| 29 | He tends to be less radical and confrontational than the most nationally prominent black politician , the Rev Jesse Jackson , and more willing to work with the establishment to achieve his goals . |
| 30 | It also wants the IFC to be less transaction-hungry and to talk more to governments about policy . |