Example sentences of "be less [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elections are less than a month away , and Mr Anguita is probably Spain 's second most popular politician after the Socialist Prime Minister , Felipe Gonzalez . |
| 2 | This theory sees the unemployed person as continuing the job search ( that is , remaining unemployed ) so long as wage offers are less than a certain ‘ reservation wage ’ . |
| 3 | But if you are less than a writer of near genius , can you by simply describing what your policemen do , hold your readers spellbound ? |
| 4 | ‘ No , Miss Eyre , you are less than a servant , because you do not work , ’ replied Miss Abbott . |
| 5 | If anyone is less than a metre behind you , you lose a point ; if you are less than a metre behind anyone else , you gain a point . " |
| 6 | For Sonny , those dramatic events are less than a blur . |
| 7 | County council elections are less than a week away , and one of the key issues is bound to be the state of our schools . |
| 8 | ‘ We are less than a third of the way through the season . |
| 9 | For most purposes it is enough to know that an enterprise makes losses — that its revenues are less than the sum of its wages , its cost of capital and its cost of material inputs ( raw materials , components , energy and so on ) . |
| 10 | If drivers had to pay all these costs , they would be discouraged from making journeys where the benefits of travelling are less than the costs . |
| 11 | The survey tells us that the chances of being burgled are less than the risk of domestic fire and that the chances of robbery are smaller than those of being admitted to a psychiatric hospital — not that such statistics will be a lot of consolation to those who are burgled or robbed . |
| 12 | Following heavy rationalisation , it generated £200m turnover last year , and has turned around from being loss-making to earning ‘ profits that are less than the industry average ’ . |
| 13 | The objective is to confirm that all response times are less than the agreed target , and that response times for identical processes are consistent . |
| 14 | The national insurance contributions for Schedule D earners ( partners and sole traders ) are less than the combined contributions of the company and the directors . |
| 15 | In some cases they accrue entitlements to holiday pay which they receive as a lump sum on the termination of their employment , although in the holiday camps sector these accrued holiday entitlements are less than the holiday entitlements of comparable regular staff . |
| 16 | Both the equivalent life and the equivalent life yield are less than the corresponding average life and average life yield . |
| 17 | Section two , there was a revised estimate for nineteen ninety two ninety three and there are two main points to mention , firstly members will see that the revised estimates in total are less than the original estimates and this is because affording interest rates have made it cheaper to service the outstanding debt from previous years ' capital programmes . |
| 18 | They have generally been assumed to be massless , particularly as measurements of the electron-neutrino mass showed it to be less than a few ten thousandths that of the electron . |
| 19 | That would be less than a complete solution . |
| 20 | In order for an apparent consent or refusal of consent to be less than a true consent or refusal , there must be such a degree of external influence as to persuade the patient to depart from her own wishes , to an extent that the law regards it as undue . |
| 21 | When a sizeable body from space strikes a planet 's surface the impact speed will not be less than a few km/s . |
| 22 | In any other times , it can be less than a week . |
| 23 | the probability of flooding must be less than a specified level ; |
| 24 | Other price rises will be less than the rate of inflation . |
| 25 | The bid failed because the estate 's value was considered to be less than the ‘ knockdown price ’ of £10 million at which the Prince had persuaded Mr Kluge to offer it to the nation , with some assessments valuing the estate at between £2 and £7 million . |
| 26 | In practice the price obtained will be less than the generating cost , so as a business proposition it is a non-starter . |
| 27 | He reasoned that the Lord who was physically born of Mary , grew in wisdom , suffered dereliction and death , must be less than the unbegotten , impassible , deathless Father . |
| 28 | Their life expectancy may be less than the national average , and they may be more susceptible to illness and disease . |
| 29 | The length of the board should be greater than 3.60m unless the user is a slight lady or a child , in which case the length and volume can be less than the figures quoted above . |
| 30 | Once the tax-free payout is made , bonus payments would continue to be added and the amount paid out would never be less than the Guaranteed Minimum Death Benefit specified in the table opposite . |