Example sentences of "[not/n't] be [adj] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cash value of scientific observations in this context must therefore be based upon subjective experience and can not be greater than the cash value of the latter ; for it is subjective experience that , ultimately , validates our objective scales of energy intensity . |
| 2 | The accuracy of the feedback need not be greater than the discrimination ability of the trainee but equally its value will diminish if it is too approximate . |
| 3 | The intrinsic value of an option can not be greater than the premium itself as this situation would provide investors with an instant arbitrage profit . |
| 4 | It is only possible to assert that work begun with a lifting of the heart is likely to go on for longer than work begun with a contracting of the stomach , that work done with a lifting of the heart will develop further than work done with a contracting of the stomach , but there is nothing to indicate that the small amount of work which is the result of a contracting of the stomach will not be better than the large amount of work done with a lifting of the heart , than the rich development which is the likely result of work undertaken with a lifting of the heart , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , poring over the pages covered in his friend 's tiny handwriting , wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve , glanced up at the sheet in his typewriter , always bearing in mind , he typed ( as Harsnet had written ) , that better and worse are relative terms , and that one man 's better is another man 's worse , one age 's better is another age 's worse , one civilization 's better is another civilization 's worse , better , worse , relative values , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , that in the long run it all comes to the same thing , long run , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , same thing . |
| 5 | ‘ For smaller businesses , the American Express card today will probably cost less than other cards and will certainly not be higher than a bank card . |
| 6 | It seems to be the very purest form of the art , even though it can not be other than a minor branch of it . |
| 7 | This Pool who is not Poole can not be worse than the last idiot I saw from the same backward profession : he was extremely fortunate that I did not send the details of his impertinences to the Medical Association or whatever it is called . |
| 8 | Evolution by natural selection could not be faster than the mutation rate , for mutation is , ultimately , the only way in which new variation enters the species . |
| 9 | If the data fit the theory reasonably well , then the post-unemployment wages must not be smaller than the estimated reservation wages . |
| 10 | No dose of a highly potentized remedy can be too small that it can not be stronger than the natural disease , that it can not at least partially overcome it and that it can not start the process of cure . |
| 11 | Note that the date must not be later than the system date when the module is next scanned or entered into LIFESPAN . |
| 12 | It must not be later than the system date when the module is next scanned or entered into LIFESPAN . |
| 13 | Note that the date must not be later than the system date when the module is next scanned or entered into LIFESPAN . |
| 14 | It must not be later than the system date when the module is next scanned or entered into LIFESPAN . |
| 15 | The Tories had been in power for twelve years already , and a general election could not be more than a year away . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 … |
| 18 | But he thought it could not be more than a couple of days . |
| 19 | who thereupon took the road to heterodoxy in his disappointment : this can not be more than a fragment of the story . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | When a sizeable body from space strikes a planet 's surface the impact speed will not be less than a few km/s . |
| 23 | This royalty shall not be less than the royalty on sales of the unadapted Video |
| 24 | This royalty shall not be less than the royalty on sales of the unadapted Video |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 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 | Lastly , the value of the call option can not be less than the difference between the share price and the exercise price : . |
| 28 | Lastly , the value can not be less than the difference between the exercise price and the share price : |
| 29 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 30 | The engine is scheduled as an Ancient Monument , though it may not be older than the late nineteenth century . |