Example sentences of "low than the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , £3,976 should be debited to deferred tax , as the accounting profits are lower than the taxable profits . |
| 2 | These horses have a Jockey Club official handicap rating that merits carrying a weight lower than the minimum weight allotted for a race . |
| 3 | These horses have a Jockey Club official handicap rating that merits carrying a weight lower than the minimum weight allotted for a race . |
| 4 | She was in love with a man who considered her to be lower than the lowest form of human life , yet even that was n't enough to change her feelings for him . |
| 5 | The most common disguise is that of the jongleur or menestrel ( within the fabliau tales there is barely any discernible difference in status or respectability between these two although conventionally it is supposed that the former is lower than the latter ) : a disreputable itinerant entertainer living , creditably , off his wits and his talents , but only too vulnerable , and given to wasting what he gains on the temporary pleasures of drinking and gambling in the taverns ; a social outcast but at the same time one called upon by the members of normal society , as Jouglet is , both to instruct the ignorant young man and to play for the villagers . |
| 6 | Since 1940 the average yield , which should in theory have been lower than the official limit but in practice was not always so , has steadily increased : |
| 7 | Opposition spokesmen claimed that the real turn-out was far lower than the official figure . |
| 8 | This amplitude , but not the duration , was significantly lower than the corresponding value for peristaltic contractions induced by dry swallows ( p<0.001 ) . |
| 9 | The non completion rate of non-standard entry mature students was found to be 15.2% which was lower than the corresponding figure for mature students who satisfied the general entry requirement which was 21.7% . |
| 10 | Publishers ' discounts are lower than the normal 35% off , and copies sold in the shops or to libraries are usually at the suggested published price . |
| 11 | The effect of the adjustment is greater in the lower than the higher grades , reflecting the fact that the mediating factors show progressive differences across the employment grades . |
| 12 | They found that of those males who reported acute sickness or chronic sickness without any limiting effect on activity , a larger proportion of the lower than the higher socio-economic groups consulted their doctors ; there was no consistent trend in the case of the females . |
| 13 | But for the whole economy the increase is only 1.9 per cent , better than the 1970s but lower than the 1960s . |
| 14 | The OBS scores ranged from three to ten ( with a mean of 7.2 ; somewhat lower than the mean for the total samples ) . |
| 15 | Plasma concentrations of loperamide after oral administration of loperamide-oxide are twofold lower than the equivalent oral doses of loperamide , resulting in a twofold increase in the already high safety margin of loperamide . |
| 16 | If the system is so ‘ sophisticated ’ that outside organisations are handling our magazine and problems like the one in Autumn occur why bother with that system ? why not go back to good old postage stamps ? … the reason is because we commenced distribution by Royal Mail 's ‘ Presstream ’ at the beginning of 1992 which involves the sender sorting all its UK mail into postcode order , the benefit being considerable savings from two discounts , firstly the Presstream pricing is lower than the standard postage rate and secondly an extra discount is earned because we have done the sorting instead of Royal Mail . |
| 17 | As well as showing the average or individual costs of community care under the Home Support Project it would clearly also be useful to show whether the project was or was not cost-effective overall ; that is , whether the costs of running the service were greater or lower than the total public expenditure saved through sustaining at home people who without the project would have been in institutions . |
| 18 | The external doses recorded for the fathers in our study are orders of magnitude lower than the external doses received by survivors of the atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki , whose children are not at an increased risk of childhood leukaemia . |
| 19 | The wear of an alumina-alumina interface is an order of magnitude lower than the metal-polyethylene combination used in conventional artificial , metal-hip systems . |
| 20 | Formerly , notes written in the bass clef were written a fourth lower than the required pitch instead of a fifth higher . |
| 21 | These refer to a title set lower than the first line of a page of ordinary text . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , this searcher may well be interested in titles like " The ecology of the smaller rodents " , but these should be ranked lower than the first two . |
| 23 | The profit margin on one sheet was much lower than the other and Emily drew in her breath sharply . |
| 24 | ‘ I suppose you want me to go first , ’ said Caspar as they stood looking up at the open window , which was grimy and smeary , but much lower than the other windows . |
| 25 | You ca n't mistake it , it 's there in the eyes , the way one is lower than the other , just a little . |
| 26 | In this case B is significantly lower than the other conditions ( t(58)=2.58 , p<0.01 ) , corresponding to a tendency to give too many ‘ Yes ’ responses . |
| 27 | AcBT-2/6/NS1/7 expressed BTV proteins although the level of VP2 expression was lower than the other three proteins as shown in Figure 2 . |
| 28 | In the previous four years GNP had grown at an average rate of about 3 per cent per annum which was lower than the preceding years and unemployment had reached a peak of 8.3 per cent in 1970 . |
| 29 | Does not the fact that our inflation rate is lower than the European Community average offer a real opportunity to British industry to improve its competitiveness ? |
| 30 | In either case , at the borders and with slight variation in the illumination , it is possible that the exposure is slightly higher or lower than the optimum value for the current conditions . |