Example sentences of "less than the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The directors have considered the value of the remaining fixed assets and are satisfied that they are worth , in total , not less than the aggregate amount at which they are stated in the company 's accounts . |
| 2 | The Nonconformists also had reason to feel disappointed , since the relief granted was considerably less than the civil and religious liberty which they had enjoyed towards the end of James 's reign . |
| 3 | In the latter half of the twentieth century , belief in Sandys ' nuclear philosophy counted for less than the political opportunity that it provided for ending National Service . |
| 4 | The total value of a player 's army may be less than the agreed value , and will often be a few points short simply because there is nothing left to spend the few remaining points on . |
| 5 | The total value of a player 's army may be slightly less than the agreed value , and will often be a few points short simply because there is nothing left to spend the odd point on . |
| 6 | The total value of a player 's army may be less than the agreed value , and will often be a few points short simply because there is nothing left to spend the odd point on . |
| 7 | The objective is to confirm that all response times are less than the agreed target , and that response times for identical processes are consistent . |
| 8 | This was considerably less than the 5s 6d ( 27½p ) a week that Arthur Young considered women similarly engaged at Askrigg in the Yorkshire lead mining district to earn . |
| 9 | If collective bargaining yields less than the required rise then firms will not be able to find enough workers to operate all newly installed machines and will have to pay above the settlement . |
| 10 | Section 26 of the Act of 1988 imposed on the governors an obligation to admit a number of applicants being not less than the relevant standard number . |
| 11 | The governors were bound to admit a number of applicants being not less than the relevant standard number ( which they did ) . |
| 12 | ( 2 ) For the purposes of subsection ( 1 ) ( a ) a fishing vessel is British-owned if — ( a ) the legal title to the vessel is vested wholly in one or more qualified persons or companies ; and ( b ) the vessel is beneficially owned — ( i ) as to not less than the relevant percentage of the property in the vessel , by one or more qualified persons , or ( ii ) wholly by a qualified company or companies , or ( iii ) by one or more qualified companies and , as to not less than the relevant percentage of the remainder of the property in the vessel , by one or more qualified persons . |
| 13 | ( 2 ) For the purposes of subsection ( 1 ) ( a ) a fishing vessel is British-owned if — ( a ) the legal title to the vessel is vested wholly in one or more qualified persons or companies ; and ( b ) the vessel is beneficially owned — ( i ) as to not less than the relevant percentage of the property in the vessel , by one or more qualified persons , or ( ii ) wholly by a qualified company or companies , or ( iii ) by one or more qualified companies and , as to not less than the relevant percentage of the remainder of the property in the vessel , by one or more qualified persons . |
| 14 | She reflected upon , perhaps only now fully remembered , her sense , in forgiving Jack , of in some way devaluing him , accepting him and loving him as something less than the perfect being she had married . |
| 15 | ‘ The detestation of ‘ the profiteer ’ by Labour' , comments one historian , ‘ arose as much from an affront to its patriotism , as it did from latent class consciousness , and the victim of capital was seen as the patriotic community no less than the working class … . ’ |
| 16 | After Pentecost , they became assured that their experience of God 's activity in their midst and in their mission was nothing less than the continued work and presence of Jesus among them . |
| 17 | Overall taxation and benefits also reduce the final income of richer groups in the population , but less than the higher rates of income tax for high earners would suggest . |
| 18 | Thus , for example , the price of a rural railway line should be less than the private marginal cost if society judges it a good thing to protect the living standards of people in remote areas or to foster a sense of national cohesion . |
| 19 | Before you settle for less than the genuine article , compare the price . |
| 20 | Since some proportion of interest recipients would not be liable for tax , the composite rate is always less than the standard rate . |
| 21 | One was a small café that sold pizza and chips for less than the small fortune we expected , and served by a girl friendlier than we could have hoped for . |
| 22 | They are now hailed as nothing less than the first Europeans . |
| 23 | The annual pension is increased for not less than the first 91 days of widowhood to the rate of the officer 's pensionable pay . |
| 24 | England expects nothing less than the first back-to-back grand slam since 1924 and there is little evidence to suggest it might not be duly delivered in south west London this afternoon . |
| 25 | But in 1983–7 the real ( volume ) increase in funds first fell to zero , then fell absolutely , then rose at a rate lower than 1 per cent — that is less than the increasing trend to an ageing population required to sustain standards ( Kings Fund Institute , 1988 ; Owens and Glennerster , 1990 ) . |
| 26 | But other schemes are less contentious : partly because the extra money gained from child benefits and other payments which favour lone parents is less than the extra money lone parents gain when the whole household is living on supplementary benefit ; and partly because the public tolerates laxer or more generous administration in other schemes than it is prepared to tolerate when it comes to means-tested benefits for the poor . |
| 27 | This week , so I hear , I have been publicly denounced from a Roman Catholic pulpit — by no less than the Provincial of the Dominican Order of monks . |
| 28 | This is in the range expected for similar-sized macromolecular complexes , but less than the 2,900 2 observed for the trp repressor-operator complex . |
| 29 | Christian preachers could declare how wrong it was for an individual to be dominated by another so as to be his legal property , and to be bought for much less than the rich would give for a racehorse . |
| 30 | Just as at Henry VIII 's death in 1547 , what was at stake in 1542 was nothing less than the religious and political future of the kingdom ; and that was entirely uncertain . |