Example sentences of "[be] [adj] than [art] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if they did n't , the bill would probably still be lower than the price of the service charge . |
| 2 | We might expect this to be lower than the effect of being in the service class . |
| 3 | Although my hand may be bigger than a lot of people 's , it 's still a hand — it 's not a block of wood . |
| 4 | The government 's main concern is that the Taiwanese of 2034 ( forecast to number 25.8m ) will be greyer than the 20.7m of today . |
| 5 | As an early morning reviver , or a welcome mid-morning break what could be better than a cup of your favourite coffee ? |
| 6 | And if the management of secondary school science departments includes the management of review and of staff development then the effect of a whole-team approach to TVEI and the sharing of ideas , expertness and good practice will be better than the effect of teachers accepting TVEI principles on an individual basis . |
| 7 | A 20th century solution would be cheaper than a replication of what was there before . |
| 8 | The condition of the original internal structures and existing buildings was so bad that cost studies showed that , as well as offering higher standards of fire and sound insulation , the provision of an entirely new structure within the retained shell of the building would be cheaper than a process of repairing and upgrading the surviving framing . |
| 9 | In this latter case the incremental costs of extra memory and software development is likely to be less than the price of a separate hardware controller . |
| 10 | These primordial black holes could be less than the size of the nucleus of an atom , yet their mass could be a billion tons , the mass of Mount Fuji . |
| 11 | For effective filtering , the ripple frequency must be very much lower than the frequency at which the series inductance becomes troublesome , and ideally the ESR must be less than the ratio of the specified ripple voltage to the ripple current . |
| 12 | This means that when the star got sufficiently dense , the repulsion caused by the exclusion principle would be less than the attraction of gravity . |
| 13 | Therefore , the condition for that balance of restraint from which we started out is that W < D , that is the value of winning the resource must be less than the cost of injury . |
| 14 | In the building trade it is well known that the cost of building a new building may be less than the cost of modifying an old one . |
| 15 | For example , the cost of buying a component externally may be less than the cost of making the component however , the potential supplier may have a history of poor industrial relations which may jeopardize supplies periodically ; this factor may be significant in the decision to make or buy . |
| 16 | Expressions such as " to insure adequately " and " to insure to the full value of the property " should be amended as the former covenant could be complied with if the cover equates to that recommended by the insurance company , and the latter could be interpreted as meaning the full market value of the property and , as such , could be less than the cost of reinstatement . |
| 17 | The condition that the mean lifetime wealth converges is that , which requires in effect that the intrinsic growth of capital ( ) should be less than the growth of population . |
| 18 | Secondly , if there is a rotation axis relating three or more CO ligands , the number of bands will be less than the number of ligands because some modes will be degenerate . |
| 19 | If now the liquid is brought into contact with the solid , so as to wet it , then the energy of the interface between the solid and the liquid will be less than the sum of surface energies of the two surfaces when they are in contact with air . |
| 20 | Other price rises will be less than the rate of inflation . |
| 21 | Even if the committee agree to a grant , it ca n't be more than a couple of thousand — not enough to keep you going for a few months . |
| 22 | But he thought it could not be more than a couple of days . |
| 23 | who thereupon took the road to heterodoxy in his disappointment : this can not be more than a fragment of the story . |
| 24 | But the relevant sense of constraint , and the aspects of society that are constrained in the two cases , are vastly different ; and if the longue durée is to be more than a ragbag of everything that endures these disparities would have to be elucidated . |
| 25 | One might go on to say that if there are two or more consistent interpretations of the lowest level code , then it makes no sense to say that the computer is in fact , say , paying tax refunds rather than doing something else because that can never be more than a matter of pragmatic interpretation by some human users of the thing . |
| 26 | For example , in applying the first criterion — logicality — belief in God is held by religious people to be more than a matter of logic . |
| 27 | He also suggested that planning as then envisaged could not really be more than a series of approximations . |
| 28 | In the section entitled ‘ Juvenile Employment ’ , Beveridge pressed the view that the exchange should be more than a place of registration and placement : it should be ‘ both a market-place and a centre of guidance and supervision in the choice of ‘ careers ’ . |
| 29 | However , the booklet is intended to be more than a list of records . |
| 30 | Wages , for those who can find work , are unlikely to be more than the equivalent of $15 a month , paid in clumsy wads of devalued roubles . |