Example sentences of "less [adj] [conj] it [vb past] " 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 | Yet the Berlin settlement was less stable than it looked . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Certainly the AgriBusiness side of it looks less rosy than it did even two years ago . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | — Edwardian working-class sport as a whole was less violent than it had been a half-century before . |
| 9 | The decor , like the dress of those outside , was simpler — the design of chairs and table less extravagant than it had been . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ It was all a lot less real than it looked . |
| 12 | However , she fell asleep at last , and Breeze took this to mean that the burn must be less serious than it appeared . |
| 13 | It was , he noticed , distinctly less warm than it had been , with an east wind blowing as they turned into the Parade . |
| 14 | The scene that greeted her at the top was already less frightening than it had been when Phoebe arrived . |
| 15 | After the Edinburgh summit , that looks much less likely than it did and that can only be good news for Courtaulds . |
| 16 | The question was less innocent than it sounded . |
| 17 | As he continued to climb , the sea appeared less troubled and it came as a surprise to see the white turmoil round the foot of each headland and promontory . |
| 18 | I think that a chief , or perhaps a leading group would after a while be decided on and priorities set in a way more mature than the boys , but girls would be less imaginative when it came to building shelters and lighting fires , and also less physically able to lift heavy objects and build things . |
| 19 | Off the front tees it is less daunting than it appeared on TV , but not much . |
| 20 | The whole business here at Miss Bedwelty 's seemed far less daunting than it did out on the industrial estate . |
| 21 | ‘ Leith , ’ he said , but his look was no warmer , no less arrogant than it had been all morning , ‘ you do n't … ’ he went on , and seemed slightly stuck for words . |
| 22 | Feeling in Congress was less critical than it had been and Senator William F. Knowland ( Republican , California ) , a lively critic of the administration , supported it over Korean aid while castigating the administration for the serious economic plight in which the Koreans found themselves . |
| 23 | In fact , this decision was less revolutionary than it appeared : Bush has brought the deadline forward from 2000 , as laid down under the Montreal Protocol , to 1995 , but the EC had already decided to adopt a 1997 deadline and the US had been lagging behind world opinion . |
| 24 | In fact the lymphangiogram turned out to be less arduous than it sounded . |
| 25 | They were less well-informed when it came to knowing the sort of people who were likely to volunteer as foster parents . |
| 26 | But even here the other member of the department interviewed explained that the syllabus was far less prescriptive than it appeared , and that most members of the department interpreted it fairly flexibly . |
| 27 | At the pragmatic level then , the rivalry has come to seem a lot less fierce than it did . |
| 28 | The absurd rent lured her , it made her hundred pounds look less pathetic than it had when she checked into Mrs Archer 's hotel . |
| 29 | Alix admitted what Liz already knew , that she and Sebastian had been less than happy , that the idyll had been less golden than it looked . |
| 30 | Salman Rushdie 's The Satanic Verses illustrated that while our now largely secular society regards blasphemy as rather less heinous than it did a hundred years ago some parts of our society are offended to such an extent that the call for retribution goes beyond censorship . |