Example sentences of "[noun sg] [is] [det] than [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | If the futures price is less than the spot price , the basis is negative ( a situation known as backwardation ) . |
| 33 | If you can raise your eyes from the water long enough you 'll see that the scenery is more than a match for the fishing — it 's simply breathtaking . |
| 34 | The horror felt for or against the censorship is less than the feeling for the opportunity it provides to make capital out of the situation . |
| 35 | It is sufficient to contravene this regulation where the patch is more than a quarter of the breadth of the tread , because there can not be at least three-quarters of good tread around the whole circumference of the tyre in such a case . |
| 36 | The offer is , apparently , to refund 20% of a fare if a train is more than an hour late . |
| 37 | The Ghost of Banquo is more than a figment of Macbeth 's imagination : it stands in some way in relation to his conscience . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | Even so , the difficulty for the individual creating a root definition is less than the difficulty in getting all the individuals involved to agree on the definition to be used . |
| 40 | The Million Sterling Tournament is less than a month away . |
| 41 | Yet , sex is more than the act of sexual intercourse and penal penetration . |
| 42 | Driving for cash er well an indication of how strongly we , we 've been driving for cash is that er the reduction i in er operating cash flow is less than the reduction in profit . |
| 43 | Groundwater flows down-slope towards the river channel , but the rate of groundwater flow is less than the rate of throughflow or of overland flow . |
| 44 | But the new Agatha Christie Society is more than an outlet for affectionate memories . |
| 45 | Religion therefore is more than just a personal affair and its influence in society is more than the sum of its influences on individuals . |
| 46 | If hardware flow control is used , the Z88 will bring RTS low when the receive buffer becomes more than half full and bring RTS high when the receive buffer is less than a quarter full . |
| 47 | If the D6 roll is more than the distance you have veered away then the Doom Diver has over compensated and the template is moved over and beyond the target the full distance roll . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | The new union is less than the sum of the other two . |
| 50 | The farmers ' calling is more than a livelihood , it is a way of life . |
| 51 | The man endued with the Holy Spirit is more than a match for the unclean spirits which are such a feature in Mark 's account . |
| 52 | The Church is more than the herald announcing the message , it is a demonstration model which gives credence to the effectiveness of that message . |
| 53 | Because schools rather than individual pupils were assigned to intervention groups responses of pupils within a school ( cluster ) tend to be correlated and hence the effective sample size is less than the number of students surveyed . |
| 54 | There is the sense here that reason is more than the sum of its parts , and that the serious pursuit of truth can , over time , generate a way of looking at the world and an approach to forming judgements on it that stands over and above any particular truths that may be assimilated on the way . |
| 55 | If the new resolution is less than the original , you can show part of the original at full resolution , and pan it around if appropriate , or compress it to make it all visible . |
| 56 | In this case the benefit from the additional information is less than the cost of obtaining it . |
| 57 | In this case the benefit from the additional information is less than the cost of obtaining it . |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | The World Health Organisation 's viewpoint is that health is more than the absence of disease or infirmity . |
| 60 | Sickness may be the absence of health , but health is more than the absence of sickness , so prevention is better than cure . |