Example sentences of "be [adj] than [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Such an order has inheritance tax advantages ( if dissolution of the marriage has taken place ) , a saving in the HM Land Registry fees is available ( see Chapter 3 and generally ) and , as any financial provision can be expressed in the order to be in full and final settlement of the wife 's claims ( see Chapter 11 ) , it is less likely to be upset than an agreement between the parties not carried into a " consent order " ( see for instance Dinch v Dinch [ 1987 ] 1 WLR 252 where the court refused to make a further order on the grounds that the consent order had conclusively determined the rights of the parties in the matrimonial home ) . |
2 | And if they did n't , the bill would probably still be lower than the price of the service charge . |
3 | We might expect this to be lower than the effect of being in the service class . |
4 | In the example quoted , where higher rates of interest were available in sterling , compared with the US$ , then the forward rate would be lower than the spot on the day the contracts were entered into . |
5 | Although my hand may be bigger than a lot of people 's , it 's still a hand — it 's not a block of wood . |
6 | The plaintiff is playing with higher stakes because the cost penalty is likely to be bigger than the amount by which the defendant might overestimate the claim . |
7 | Interestingly enough , the LGS samples from the Phase 1 unions were less likely to be dangerous than the samples from the Phase 2 unions , despite the fact that the Phase 2 unions had been visited by the Oral Replacement Workers in the previous year whereas two years had passed since the Phase 1 unions had been visited . |
8 | A moorland parish will obviously be larger than a parish in a fertile area that was densely settled in early times ; a church that was an Anglo-Saxon missionary centre will usually have a larger parish than one that was founded later . |
9 | The government 's main concern is that the Taiwanese of 2034 ( forecast to number 25.8m ) will be greyer than the 20.7m of today . |
10 | After all , what could be better than a get-together with local musicians , listening to your favourite gear played how it should be played , and the all-important bottle of Carlsberg ! |
11 | Even for a paedophile , life in Russia might be better than a cell in Long Lartin prison . |
12 | As an early morning reviver , or a welcome mid-morning break what could be better than a cup of your favourite coffee ? |
13 | Mind you you might be better than the Chancellor at that , but er |
14 | The Temptation to defect must be better than the Reward for mutual cooperation , which must be better than the Punishment for mutual defection , which must be better than the Sucker 's payoff . |
15 | The Temptation to defect must be better than the Reward for mutual cooperation , which must be better than the Punishment for mutual defection , which must be better than the Sucker 's payoff . |
16 | And if the management of secondary school science departments includes the management of review and of staff development then the effect of a whole-team approach to TVEI and the sharing of ideas , expertness and good practice will be better than the effect of teachers accepting TVEI principles on an individual basis . |
17 | A 20th century solution would be cheaper than a replication of what was there before . |
18 | The condition of the original internal structures and existing buildings was so bad that cost studies showed that , as well as offering higher standards of fire and sound insulation , the provision of an entirely new structure within the retained shell of the building would be cheaper than a process of repairing and upgrading the surviving framing . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | This means that when the star got sufficiently dense , the repulsion caused by the exclusion principle would be less than the attraction of gravity . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | This royalty shall not be less than the royalty on sales of the unadapted Video |
28 | This royalty shall not be less than the royalty on sales of the unadapted Video |
29 | As in the civil sector , the gap in know-how may be less than the gap in the technological level of what is produced ; often a conscious decision is made to forego the most advanced option . |
30 | 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 . |