Example sentences of "[be] less [subord] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some cases they accrue entitlements to holiday pay which they receive as a lump sum on the termination of their employment , although in the holiday camps sector these accrued holiday entitlements are less than the holiday entitlements of comparable regular staff . |
| 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 | Following heavy rationalisation , it generated £200m turnover last year , and has turned around from being loss-making to earning ‘ profits that are less than the industry average ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The registered capital of the Kft may not be less than the whole issued capital of the company under conversion and simultaneously with the registration of the new Kft all shares must be cancelled . |
| 9 | With respect to Fig. 9–12(b) he argues that , if the indifference curves shown related to ineligibles , then the utility gain from attempting to consume this good would be less than the utility gain from falsely claiming a cash transfer . |
| 10 | In this simple approach to open.loop control there are three basic control functions : ( a ) stepping rate : sets the motor speed , which must be less than the start/stop rate , ( h ) phase sequencing : ensures that the motor phases are excited in the order corresponding to the required direction of rotation , ( c ) step counting : records the number of steps taken by the motor and inhibits the step commands when the target position is attained . |
| 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 | This royalty shall not be less than the royalty on sales of the unadapted Video |
| 17 | This royalty shall not be less than the royalty on sales of the unadapted Video |
| 18 | However , the price P C will be less than the firm 's average costs at Q ' ; so it will be making losses . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ( 6.5 ) was found to be less than the market risk premium ( ) . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | If the demand price is greater than the supply price for amounts just less than the equilibrium amount , it is sure to be less than the supply price for amounts just greater : and therefore , if the scale of production is somewhat increased beyond the equilibrium position , it will tend to return ; and the equilibrium will be stable for displacements in that direction also . |
| 24 | Obviously , if the calculation is made on the basis of averages , Labour 's proposed tax will appear to be less than the community charge this year , or the projections for the council tax . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Some or all of the authorized shares will be issued to shareholders ( and are called issued shares or called-up shares ) , with an issue price which can exceed the par value but can not be less than the par value . |
| 27 | Other price rises will be less than the rate of inflation . |
| 28 | Lastly , the value of the call option can not be less than the difference between the share price and the exercise price : . |
| 29 | Lastly , the value can not be less than the difference between the exercise price and the share price : |
| 30 | Methysergide , R-zacopride , and SC53116 significantly inhibited the increased transit induced by 5HT ; indeed , the geometric centres of isotope with ia 5HT and these agents given ip were less than the value observed with ia saline alone ( Table I ) . |