Example sentences of "be [adj] than [art] [noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ! |
| 9 | Even for a paedophile , life in Russia might be better than a cell in Long Lartin prison . |
| 10 | As an early morning reviver , or a welcome mid-morning break what could be better than a cup of your favourite coffee ? |
| 11 | Mind you you might be better than the Chancellor at that , but er |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A 20th century solution would be cheaper than a replication of what was there before . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | This means that when the star got sufficiently dense , the repulsion caused by the exclusion principle would be less than the attraction of gravity . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | This royalty shall not be less than the royalty on sales of the unadapted Video |
| 26 | This royalty shall not be less than the royalty on sales of the unadapted Video |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |