Example sentences of "[is] [det] than [art] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Wednesday , Taylor hopes they can make fools out of World Cup rivals Turkey because , with David Batty out , Palmer looks certain of an eighth cap and the chance to prove he is more than a court jester . |
| 2 | However , maintenance is more than a cost centre because it affects aircraft availability . |
| 3 | The announcement of a link-up with the BBC on to satellite is more than a propaganda coup for Thames Television . |
| 4 | Wearing trousers is more than a fashion choice for them , it is a religious requirement . |
| 5 | The Wye Raft race is more than a sporting event ; it 's also a big moneyspinner for charity . |
| 6 | The Wye Raft race is more than a sporting event ; it 's also a big moneyspinner for charity . |
| 7 | There is less than a 5% probability that an object belonging to a population with velocity dispersion 120kms -1 moves so slowly ; alternatively , a 20 M and ; object in equipartition with solar-mass stars having 120kms -1 dispersion , has about even chance of moving more slowly than 25kms -1 . |
| 8 | If the rent under the sublease is made to increase at the same rate as the rent under the headlease , and the rent under the headlease is less than a market rent at the date of grant of the sublease , the rent under the sublease may well exceed the true market rent after the first rent review . |
| 9 | However , if the market price is less than the contract price , the difference between the two represents the seller 's loss . |
| 10 | But you 've agreed to a budget that is less than the capping level . |
| 11 | It will sometimes be the case that , for certain instruction groups , the number of bits required fully to specify an operation and all its associated information is less than the computer word length ; so these groups are using the word inefficiently , and are candidates for occupying only a portion of a word . |
| 12 | If the switching angle is not optimised at any operating speed then the motor torque is less than the pull-out torque . |
| 13 | Assume case 2 , i.e. that the level of expenditure most preferred by the median voter ( X* ) is less than the reversion level . |
| 14 | Thus , if the median voter 's preferred point X *1 is less than the reversion level , a lump-sum grant will put the new equilibrium level of public spending at a new higher reversion level . |
| 15 | On the other hand , when the amount produced is such that the demand price is less than the supply price , sellers receive less than is sufficient to make it worth their while to bring goods to market on that scale ; so that those who were just on the margin of doubt as to whether to go on producing are decided not to do so , and there is an active force at work tending to diminish the amount brought forward for sale . |
| 16 | If this time period is greater than the input pulse width , the motor is driven in one direction whilst if it is less than the input pulse width , the motor is driven in the opposite direction . |
| 17 | There is a part of each step during which the motor torque is less than the load torque , so that the system decelerates . |
| 18 | If a star 's mass is less than the Chandrasekhar limit , it can eventually stop contracting and settle down to a possible final state as a " white dwarf " with a radius of a few thousand miles and a density of hundreds of tons per cubic inch . |
| 19 | If the cost is less than the target figure the contractor is paid his costs , plus his target profit , plus a proportion of the cost saving . |
| 20 | The two-layer structure will be stable only if the density of the cool , clear upper layer is less than the bulk density of the sedimenting lower layer . |
| 21 | When the demand for labour is less than the labour force , there is a general deficiency of the demand for labour and unemployment rises above the NUP . |
| 22 | If the futures price is less than the spot price , the basis is negative ( a situation known as backwardation ) . |
| 23 | Although the detent torque is less than the motor torque with one or more windings fully excited , it can be a useful feature in applications where the rotor position must be preserved during a power failure . |
| 24 | If society gains more than the private supplier would gain , the social cost of the capital good is less than the market price that a private supplier would have to charge . |
| 25 | No , cos they 're fluorescent , it 's only about twelve watts , it 's less than a light bulb . |
| 26 | That 's less than the company subsidy for the North Harbour cafeteria , running around £900 per employee in 1990 . |