Example sentences of "be [det] than [art] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if you are less than a writer of near genius , can you by simply describing what your policemen do , hold your readers spellbound ? |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | And that misuse of the aerosol sprays is probably responsible for about three thousand five hundred deaths , but I think you 've got to put that into perspective , first of all against the six thousand people who are killed on the roads every year in Britain , and you 've also got to set it against our estimate that there are more than a quarter of a million people alive today who would have died in childhood if it had n't been specifically for the advantage of being able to take medicines , anti-biotics generally in their childhood to keep them alive . |
| 5 | If there are more than a handful of lawyers doing personal injury work get a member of the support staff to compile and distribute a monthly newsletter . |
| 6 | Possible tests of success in this facet of the changes is whether non-executives are clear about their contribution and whether decisions are more than the sum of executive preferences . |
| 7 | Good learning environments are more than the sum of their parts ; they are exciting , attractive , motivating and challenging for those within them . |
| 8 | In this latter case the incremental costs of extra memory and software development is likely to be less than the price of a separate hardware controller . |
| 9 | These primordial black holes could be less than the size of the nucleus of an atom , yet their mass could be a billion tons , the mass of Mount Fuji . |
| 10 | For effective filtering , the ripple frequency must be very much lower than the frequency at which the series inductance becomes troublesome , and ideally the ESR must be less than the ratio of the specified ripple voltage to the ripple current . |
| 11 | This means that when the star got sufficiently dense , the repulsion caused by the exclusion principle would be less than the attraction of gravity . |
| 12 | Therefore , the condition for that balance of restraint from which we started out is that W < D , that is the value of winning the resource must be less than the cost of injury . |
| 13 | In the building trade it is well known that the cost of building a new building may be less than the cost of modifying an old one . |
| 14 | For example , the cost of buying a component externally may be less than the cost of making the component however , the potential supplier may have a history of poor industrial relations which may jeopardize supplies periodically ; this factor may be significant in the decision to make or buy . |
| 15 | Expressions such as " to insure adequately " and " to insure to the full value of the property " should be amended as the former covenant could be complied with if the cover equates to that recommended by the insurance company , and the latter could be interpreted as meaning the full market value of the property and , as such , could be less than the cost of reinstatement . |
| 16 | The condition that the mean lifetime wealth converges is that , which requires in effect that the intrinsic growth of capital ( ) should be less than the growth of population . |
| 17 | Secondly , if there is a rotation axis relating three or more CO ligands , the number of bands will be less than the number of ligands because some modes will be degenerate . |
| 18 | If now the liquid is brought into contact with the solid , so as to wet it , then the energy of the interface between the solid and the liquid will be less than the sum of surface energies of the two surfaces when they are in contact with air . |
| 19 | Other price rises will be less than the rate of inflation . |
| 20 | Even if the committee agree to a grant , it ca n't be more than a couple of thousand — not enough to keep you going for a few months . |
| 21 | But he thought it could not be more than a couple of days . |
| 22 | who thereupon took the road to heterodoxy in his disappointment : this can not be more than a fragment of the story . |
| 23 | But the relevant sense of constraint , and the aspects of society that are constrained in the two cases , are vastly different ; and if the longue durée is to be more than a ragbag of everything that endures these disparities would have to be elucidated . |
| 24 | One might go on to say that if there are two or more consistent interpretations of the lowest level code , then it makes no sense to say that the computer is in fact , say , paying tax refunds rather than doing something else because that can never be more than a matter of pragmatic interpretation by some human users of the thing . |
| 25 | For example , in applying the first criterion — logicality — belief in God is held by religious people to be more than a matter of logic . |
| 26 | He also suggested that planning as then envisaged could not really be more than a series of approximations . |
| 27 | In the section entitled ‘ Juvenile Employment ’ , Beveridge pressed the view that the exchange should be more than a place of registration and placement : it should be ‘ both a market-place and a centre of guidance and supervision in the choice of ‘ careers ’ . |
| 28 | However , the booklet is intended to be more than a list of records . |
| 29 | Wages , for those who can find work , are unlikely to be more than the equivalent of $15 a month , paid in clumsy wads of devalued roubles . |
| 30 | The cost of the low-end word processor and desktop publishing program combined may well be more than the cost of a good word processor that can do many of the same functions . |