Example sentences of "[pron] [be] less [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , the current legal minimum allowance of 450 square centimetres per bird gives the bird a space which is less than a page of this magazine . |
| 2 | An incident room staffed by 30 officers working full time on the case is being run at Martlesham police headquarters , which is less than a mile from the scene of crime . |
| 3 | Nor does the Athenaion Politeia say more than that on certain matters the Boule does not have the final decision ( xlv ) , which is less than a direct and triumphant assertion of the Assembly 's sovereignty . |
| 4 | ‘ He knows he could not find an independent panel anywhere in Britain which would accept it is right to make an offer which is less than the rate of inflation to people who work in a service which is already underpaid and understaffed . ’ |
| 5 | The population of Northern Ireland is about 1.5 million which is less than the larger units of local government in England or the Strathclyde region in Scotland . |
| 6 | there is a number k>0 which is less than the cost of any step : cost ( N , C ) r k for every node N and child C. |
| 7 | Barro obtains a value of 1.4 for his test statistic , which is less than the critical value under the F distribution with 3 and 19 degrees of freedom at the 5 per cent significance level . |
| 8 | Under imperfect competition , producers set marginal cost equal to marginal revenue , which is less than the price at which the last unit is sold . |
| 9 | But at the output Q , person 2 's marginal private benefit is only P 2 , which is less than the current price P 1 . |
| 10 | It should be pointed out that in our control group , the incidence of rebleeding was 26% , which is less than the 30 to 50% seen by others . |
| 11 | That works out at a dollar an hour which is less than the federal minimum wage . ’ |
| 12 | But if you are less than a writer of near genius , can you by simply describing what your policemen do , hold your readers spellbound ? |
| 13 | ‘ No , Miss Eyre , you are less than a servant , because you do not work , ’ replied Miss Abbott . |
| 14 | If anyone is less than a metre behind you , you lose a point ; if you are less than a metre behind anyone else , you gain a point . " |
| 15 | ‘ We are less than a third of the way through the season . |
| 16 | He says that he thinks it 's unlikely that it will hit ; in fact there 's less than a one in 10,000 chance . |
| 17 | If there is less than a certain amount , the gravitational force will be insufficient to stop a never-ending expansion . |
| 18 | There is less than a 5% probability that an object belonging to a population with velocity dispersion 120kms -1 moves so slowly ; alternatively , a 20 M and ; object in equipartition with solar-mass stars having 120kms -1 dispersion , has about even chance of moving more slowly than 25kms -1 . |
| 19 | They were less than a quarter of a kilometre from the castle . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's less than a hour 's drive . |
| 21 | But er it 's less than a fortnight now . |
| 22 | Well here 's the specification , length , Escort four two six eight so it 's about two point three , sorry two hundred and thirty millimetres longer , so it 's less than a foot |
| 23 | No , cos they 're fluorescent , it 's only about twelve watts , it 's less than a light bulb . |
| 24 | It 's less than the benefit you 'd receive if you were an invalid or an old-age pensioner and you 'd get more if you were a widow or a student . |
| 25 | Wo wo , it 's less than the price of a cup of tea . |
| 26 | If it is less than a hundred-per cent change , ignore it ; you are studying the wrong system or have designed the wrong experiment , he insisted . |
| 27 | If it is less than the level at which NI contributions must be paid , your employee can not get SSP . |
| 28 | If it is less than the lower earnings limit which applied in the QW , your employee can not get SMP . |
| 29 | If it is less than the lower earnings limit which applied in the QW , your employee is not entitled to SMP . |
| 30 | If this time period is greater than the input pulse width , the motor is driven in one direction whilst if it is less than the input pulse width , the motor is driven in the opposite direction . |