Example sentences of "be low [conj] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Six months after the first birth , a wife 's evaluation of marriage is likely to be lower than that of her husband , and by eighteen months conflict may reach a peak . |
| 2 | The typical denigration of ‘ practice ’ arises largely from the social status of practitioners , which tends to be lower than that of theoreticians . |
| 3 | This means that in a sequence of HLH basic tones within an utterance , the pitch of a H tone , following after a L tone , will be lower than that of the preceding H tone , e.g. If you are not aware of this , you may think the language has more tone levels than it actually has . |
| 4 | Scattered radiation of lower frequency is in general more important , because the proportion of molecules in excited vibrational states is governed by the Boltzmann distribution [ Eqn ( 5.9 ) ] , and will be lower than that in the lowest state . |
| 5 | Based on these findings , and on those by Villanova et al showing that : ( i ) patients with multiple primary stones tend to develop multiple recurrent stones while those who originally had solitary stones tend to develop single stone recurrence ; and ( ii ) the recurrence rate in those who initially had solitary stones is only one third of that in patients who originally had multiple stones , we can predict that as patients selected for extra corporeal shock wave dissolution mainly have solitary stones , the recurrence rate after lithotripsy should be lower than that reported here . |
| 6 | There is , nowadays , little reason for the tenant to seek to incorporate an option to renew in his lease unless by reason of his bargaining strength he can secure that the rent payable under the new lease will be lower than that which would be fixed by the court on an application for a new tenancy under the 1954 Act . |
| 7 | Newco will have heavy borrowings and a large number of preference shares , which means that its ability to give guarantees is low , and will almost certainly be lower than that of the vendors . |
| 8 | It is now clear , for instance , that before the nineteenth century illegitimacy rates were low and that bastardy was disapproved of by all sections of society , not just the church authorities . |
| 9 | It 's lower than that actually but er sorry |
| 10 | Percentage loss of prey from tawny owl pellets was found to be greater in summer than in winter ( Lowe , 1980 ) , and this could relate both to the greater numbers of immature rodents taken as prey , the bones of which are less mineralized and therefore easier to digest ( Lowe , 1980 ) , and to the likelihood of the birds producing the pellets being themselves immature In the case of the great horned owl it has been found that the stomach pH in immature birds is lower than that of adults ( Grimm & Whitehouse , 1963 ) and there is therefore greater destruction of bone and loss of prey . |
| 11 | On the other hand despite the increase in funding during the last forty years , the UK spending on health as a proportion of national income is lower than that in most West European countries and considerably lower than in the USA ( see Figure 7.1 ) . |
| 12 | After absorption a drug will re-enter the gut by passive diffusion provided that the concentration there is lower than that in the blood . |
| 13 | Whatever the validity of these arguments , Table 14.4 clearly shows that the share of gross investment in total output and expenditure ( GDP ) in the UK is lower than that of most other major economies . |
| 14 | This proportion is lower than that in chemistry , and reflects a slightly larger spread of values about the mode in geology . |
| 15 | This proportion is lower than that in chemistry , and reflects a slightly larger spread of values about the mode in geology . |
| 16 | Initially , the chemical potential µ 1 , of the solvent in the solution , is lower than that of the pure solvent , µ 1 ° and solvent molecules tend to pass through the membrane into the solution in order to attain equilibrium . |
| 17 | Water is an exception since the density of ice is lower than that of liquid water . |
| 18 | Since the total vapour pressure is higher than that of either component , the temperature at which the mixture boils is lower than that of either component . |
| 19 | If it is not sharp and is lower than that of the two separate samples , then the samples are not identical . |
| 20 | It is known that the prevalence increases with age and that while the incidence in children is lower than that in adults , intrafamilial clustering has been shown . |
| 21 | In many developing countries , the immunogenicity of three doses of live , attenuated , oral poliovirus vaccine ( OPV ) is lower than that in industrialised countries . |
| 22 | It said that the ‘ benefit/cost ratio of Super-SARA is low and that , at the present time , the risk can not be discounted of substantial cost overruns . ’ |
| 23 | Then a Rate 1 back onto 210 and descend towards the pilot ; the sun was low and that was causing me some problems ; seventy knots , no flaps in case I had to move fast , 100 feet — hold it . |
| 24 | Their response was lower than that of control animals . |
| 25 | A study done for the pensioner 's parliament found that the basic pension paid in Britain in 1988 was lower than that paid in every country except Portugal — but Germany , which has a high pension , and Ireland , which has a low one , were omitted for technical reasons . |
| 26 | The Liberal Democrats ' vote on Thursday , 18 per cent , was lower than that secured by the Liberals under David Steel in February 1974 . |
| 27 | The per capita expenditure in homeland schools in 1987/88 was lower than that in DET schools — with Kwazulu , for example , spending only 412 rand per pupil . |
| 28 | The conductivity of the unsaturated carbon-bearing samples ( A3 , A4 ) at near surface conditions was lower than that when saturated with electrolyte , as expected , but increased with the application of confining pressure ( Fig. 1 b ) . |
| 29 | When the National Insurance Act was introduced in 1911 it also provided sickness benefits of 10s. per week for men , 7s. 6d. for women ( because their loss of earnings during sickness was lower than that of men ) for the first thirteen weeks of sickness , although nothing was paid for the first three days , the aim being to help long-rather than trivial short-term sickness ; 5s. per week was paid to men and women for the following thirteen weeks . |
| 30 | Accordingly , the policy of dismissing a woman employee solely because she had attained the qualifying age for a state pension which was lower than that for a man constituted discrimination contrary to the Council Directive . |