Example sentences of "[prep] be less " in BNC.
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| 1 | A study published by Age Concern Scotland asserts , that , ‘ to be dependent is to face the danger of being less than fully human because to be dependent is to live with the prospect of having our bodies cared for but our personal and social lives neglected or even dismissed as irrelevant . ’ |
| 2 | Women may have the advantage of being less fixed in the way they can express the creative light . |
| 3 | In this way basic existential security may be maintained , but at the cost of being less able to desire new attachments to new objects . |
| 4 | But there are two reasons to suspect this argument of being less than compelling . |
| 5 | The BTU tax also has the advantage of being less unpopular than a petrol tax , partly because it is almost impossible to understand . |
| 6 | Although the inclination angle can not be determined , the a priori probability that it is less than must be at least and has 95% probability of being less than . |
| 7 | She realised , as she had mentioned to Laura , she was quite as guilty as her superiors of being less than open with the police . |
| 8 | Like facsimile messages ( fax ) , it has the advantage of being less expensive than the telephone , as an entire message can be composed before transmission , with only the time of transmission attracting an external cost . |
| 9 | Hence the lack of an intimate relationship , or the presence of a critical and uninterested husband , was suggested as associated with a sense of being less valued . |
| 10 | It seems to me that E two as it is currently drafted is a great deal less comprehensive than P P G seven and a great deal more restrictive , possibly as a consequence of being less comprehensive . |
| 11 | In recent weeks the force has been accused by some in the Protestant community of being ineffective in the fight against the IRA , and by some Catholics of being less vigorous in tackling loyalist violence . |
| 12 | Provided that the value of is less than one , the effect of the positive value of will gradually become negligible . |
| 13 | In teaching , for example , married women were charged with being less efficient than men because of their higher absentee rates caused by pregnancy and by their need to stay at home to look after sick children , the fundamental assumption being that marriage and motherhood were incompatible with a career . |
| 14 | Let's hope the myth we end up with is less destructive than some of the recent ones . |
| 15 | But surely the the , some of the burdens on the peasants surely got ta be less now that they 're no longer fighting the Japanese as well . |
| 16 | If the first furrow was straight , example and actual guidance helped to persuade the ploughman who followed after him to draw the other furrows in the stetch in like manner : if the first furrow was bent nothing could prevent the others from being less than perfect also . |
| 17 | But at least one other English poet preceded Tolkien in being less sure , the author of the legend of St Michael in The Early South English Legendary , written about 1250 . |
| 18 | Curiously , in being less than art , the new ‘ cutting-edge ’ art has turned out to be more than art . |
| 19 | Empson 's work thus comes close to the theories discussed in the last chapter , which approach the literary text through its linguistic form ; it differs from most of these , however , in being less systematic and theoretical , and in particular in being less influenced by developments in modern linguistics . |
| 20 | Empson 's work thus comes close to the theories discussed in the last chapter , which approach the literary text through its linguistic form ; it differs from most of these , however , in being less systematic and theoretical , and in particular in being less influenced by developments in modern linguistics . |
| 21 | So it is all the more remarkable that in France , Spain and Italy , where politicians hesitate before being less than wholeheartedly Europhile , parties have either come into government , or may soon do so , that are less enthusiastic about European union than those they replaced . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | They have interpreted Salters 's study of Belfast secondary schools as showing catholics to be less prejudiced than protestants . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's supposed to be less fattening . ’ |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Next year 's outlook for the banks is expected to be less cloudy . |
| 29 | However , there appear to be less sinister reasons behind its absence from the leaked papers . |
| 30 | 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 . |