Example sentences of "[adv] be [det] [conj] [art] " in BNC.

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1 There are several areas in which the continued health of the Course depends upon a collaborative response which must necessarily be more than the aggregate of views of individual fields and departments .
2 Recall that in a group of families with above-average measured incomes , Y > Y p — this means that the measured apc ( = C/ Y ) will necessarily be less than the long-run apc ( = C/ Y p ) .
3 The Tories had been in power for twelve years already , and a general election could not be more than a year away .
4 During the menopause a drop in hormone levels may account for a temporary loss of sexual desire in women , but this need not be more than a passing loss .
5 Secondly , though such a society may exhibit the tension , already described , between those who accept the rules and those who reject the rules except where fear of social pressure induces them to conform , it is plain that the latter can not be more than a minority , if so loosely organized a society of persons , approximately equal in physical strength , is to endure : for otherwise those who reject the rules would have too little social pressure to fear …
6 But he thought it could not be more than a couple of days .
7 who thereupon took the road to heterodoxy in his disappointment : this can not be more than a fragment of the story .
8 Our data suggest that the biologically active amidated peptides that are potential mediators of these actions can not be more than a small proportion of the total progastrin produced .
9 In Kaiser ( An Infant ) v Carlswood Glassworks Ltd ( 1965 ) 109 SJ 537 it was said that reports should not be more than a year old , but six months is probably safer .
10 When a sizeable body from space strikes a planet 's surface the impact speed will not be less than a few km/s .
11 This royalty shall not be less than the royalty on sales of the unadapted Video
12 This royalty shall not be less than the royalty on sales of the unadapted Video
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 Lastly , the value of the call option can not be less than the difference between the share price and the exercise price : .
16 Lastly , the value can not be less than the difference between the exercise price and the share price :
17 The price at which a participant may acquire ordinary shares in the Company ( ‘ shares ’ ) on the exercise of an option shall be determined by the Directors but shall not be less than the middle market quotation of a share as derived from the London Stock Exchange Daily Official List for the last dealing day before eligible employees are invited to apply for options ( or , if higher , the nominal value of a share ) , or , if certain specified conditions are satisfied , 85% of such figure ( ‘ Discounted Options ’ ) .
18 After three months they would be entitled to the statutory minimum wage in Germany , but this would still be less than the wages taken home by Germans working on the same site .
19 Clearly , such resources will always be less than the total need for management development , so hard decisions about selective investment will continue to be required .
20 There was never even a possibility that Barney Clark would ever be more than a wretched cripple .
21 . The damage done to industry by any of these three methods would probably be more than the good done to it by the direct help and , anyway I am not clear on the sort of direct help that might be intended . ’
22 You also need to allow for the cost of both building and tiling a separate shower enclosure ; this can often be more than the cost if installing the shower itself .
23 He also suggested that planning as then envisaged could not really be more than a series of approximations .
24 A job franchise in the haulage industry would typically be such that the franchise would invest in a lorry and anticipate an income closely allied to driving hours undertaken .
25 The resemblance to Marryat in O'Brian 's novels is unarguable in general terms and may even be more than a broad likeness .
26 Clearly there may well be more than an element of exaggeration in this insistence , but it makes more sense if we accept their view that a great many features of literature that might not normally be recognized , at least at first sight , as terms of a comparison , nonetheless have a metaphorical or analogical function .
27 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 .
28 Instead of having all these different mortgage companies , Abbey National and that , the government have er , have er , a whatsname to do it , they 're would n't be half and a quarter .
29 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 .
30 Nobody there , but he could n't be more than a few yards away and Forester 's fingers would n't obey him enough to get the buckles properly secured .
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