Example sentences of "less [adj] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outside Europe the struggle in the sugar islands was less destructive than it had been 50 or 60 years earlier . |
| 2 | Foreign investors are beginning to worry that the Mexican peso is less solid than it looks . |
| 3 | This is less odd than it looks : it pays creditors to avoid the delays and legal costs of chapter 11 . |
| 4 | Yet the Berlin settlement was less stable than it looked . |
| 5 | Although the influence of Cubism on the German painters was less direct than it had been in the development of Futurism ( the work of Delaunay which the Germans most admired , for instance , was no longer really Cubist at all ) , unlike the Italians the Germans made no attempt to disguise their interest in the movement , and several of the artists of the Blaue Reiter actually thought of themselves as Cubist painters . |
| 6 | By far the most common escape mechanism for organisms ranging from bacteria to human beings is ‘ habituation ’ , a kind of behavioural boredom by which an animal becomes less responsive as it encounters the same stimulus repeatedly . |
| 7 | The line-up in the Bundesrat is less clear than it appears . |
| 8 | And animal minds , a fortiori , do not engage in this sort of computation ( which is why the Punch cartoon would have been less funny if it had shown a human fisherman ) . |
| 9 | Secondly , many of the subjects in the list can be studied in pairs , in ‘ joint ’ or ‘ combined ’ subject degrees , so that the overall pattern of studies is less specialized than it appears . |
| 10 | John Stevenson feels that this urban migration was important in restructuring the population of Britain , although Glynn and Oxborrow argue that this internal migration was less marked than it had been in the nineteenth century — being about one third of its former level . |
| 11 | Certainly the AgriBusiness side of it looks less rosy than it did even two years ago . |
| 12 | Bedford was the only new earl created by Edward III after his family settlement in 1362 , and his patronage of the nobility was markedly less generous than it had been in the first two decades of his reign . |
| 13 | — Edwardian working-class sport as a whole was less violent than it had been a half-century before . |
| 14 | ( Since many farmers vote Socialist , this idea is less bland than it sounds . ) |
| 15 | Particularly , the notion of ‘ equivalent ways of doing or saying the same thing ’ to which Weiner and Labov obliquely refer ( see above ) is much less straightforward than it seems . |
| 16 | The decor , like the dress of those outside , was simpler — the design of chairs and table less extravagant than it had been . |
| 17 | Conditioner helps to make split ends less noticeable because it smooths the cuticles down and improves hair appearance . |
| 18 | For example , as we noted , the definition of pragmatics as concerned with encoded aspects of context may be less restrictive than it seems at first sight ; for if in general ( a ) principles of language usage have as corollaries principles of interpretation , and ( b ) principles of language usage are likely in the long run to impinge on grammar ( and some empirical support can be found for both propositions ) , then theories about pragmatic aspects of meaning will be closely related to theories about the grammaticalization of aspects of context . |
| 19 | It may seem also that each vassal could only have one lord : otherwise the bond would be less personal than it purported to be , and the vassal might be involved in a serious conflict of loyalty . |
| 20 | ‘ It was all a lot less real than it looked . |
| 21 | Most natural minerals are brittle because they are more or less homogeneous but it happens that a few have cleavage planes of about the right strength . |
| 22 | This may be less serious than it seems . |
| 23 | However , she fell asleep at last , and Breeze took this to mean that the burn must be less serious than it appeared . |
| 24 | When the Boundary Commission looks at these matters over every 10 years or so , demography and demographic conditions have to be considered , and it is less easy than it appears on paper simply to provide consistency in terms of the demographic relationship of the people living in the country and the number of Members representing them in the House . |
| 25 | Less easy as it goes along , so we 've got , start by saying loaf of , what do you want to buy at the moment ? |
| 26 | It was , he noticed , distinctly less warm than it had been , with an east wind blowing as they turned into the Parade . |
| 27 | Acrylic tends to dry less opaque than it look when wet , and it may take repeated overpainting when thin layers of colour are used to cover completely something underneath . |
| 28 | The scene that greeted her at the top was already less frightening than it had been when Phoebe arrived . |
| 29 | The rise in the popularity of herbs as medicinal remedies is less obvious but it seems to have come partly from a general dissatisfaction with synthesized drugs , as well as plastics , artificials and chemicals — " manufactured " articles of all kinds , which are being rejected in favour of substances naturally grown and formed by hand into the artifact required . |
| 30 | Massive coverage may look good but it is a lot less valuable if it appears in media which are not seen by your ultimate target audience . |