Example sentences of "than [art] certain " in BNC.
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| 1 | Colleagues , the time gained by having only one and recruitment and on negotiations rather at least two could be much better utilized than the certain , the day to day needs of membership . |
| 2 | DAVID ELSWORTH will have a lot more to occupy his thoughts this winter than a certain grey steeplechaser . |
| 3 | Data can not be moved from the processor to the memory and back faster than a certain speed , which limits the performance of the computer as a whole . |
| 4 | We accept then that , responsibility or no responsibility , commission or no commission , prices may behave in such a way that profits rise faster than a certain rate , that rate being the rate at which incomes other than profits — or perhaps incomes including profits ? — are increasing . |
| 5 | This ensures that the manager seeks the artist 's permission before spending more than a certain amount of money . |
| 6 | between aiding suicide and making available , for example , certain drugs to relieve pain which , if more than a certain dosage is taken , will cause death . |
| 7 | This theory sees the unemployed person as continuing the job search ( that is , remaining unemployed ) so long as wage offers are less than a certain ‘ reservation wage ’ . |
| 8 | A haulier must register for VAT if there are reasonable grounds for believing that its contracts will bring in more than a certain sum per year . |
| 9 | If there is less than a certain amount , the gravitational force will be insufficient to stop a never-ending expansion . |
| 10 | If there is more than a certain amount , gravity will in due course draw the galaxies back together . |
| 11 | Conservative backbenchers put pressure on the government to provide safeguards for households which would lose by more than a certain amount . |
| 12 | when the word has been overlapped with all members of the filter set , take those weak overlap indices with a frequency greater than a certain threshold ( this was set to 1 for the example below ) and append them to the strong overlap list . |
| 13 | What is being proposed at the moment , however , is no more than a certain view of our conception of causation . |
| 14 | But to assert that is by definition to assert no more than a certain independent conditional-roughly , that since the circumstance existed , even if most other things had been different , the effect would still have occurred . |
| 15 | Most countries allow their citizens to bring home articles without an import licence , providing they cost less than a certain amount , without paying excess duty . |
| 16 | In fact , financial targets might be seen as equivalent to constraints imposed by shareholders in a public company who require dividends of a certain level ( or indeed as related to constraints on regulated companies who must earn no more than a certain return on capital ; see chapter 5 ) . |
| 17 | More fruitful perhaps than such broad categorizations is the implication of Figure 2.1 that it is better to think of disciplines as occupying a certain space in a universe of knowledge , rather than a certain level in a hierarchy or place on a map . |
| 18 | Unlike in certain other European countries , British labour law sets no maximum duration to a temporary employment relationship , whereby all persons employed for longer than a certain period of time automatically have permanent status . |
| 19 | However you tried to measure the particle , the uncertainty in its position , times the uncertainty in its speed , would always be greater than a certain minimum amount . |
| 20 | If it started with more than a certain critical speed , however , it would never stop rising and fall back but would continue to move away . |
| 21 | When this last measure failed to force some authorities sufficiently into line , the Conservative government , in 1984 , introduced a measure called rate capping that made it illegal for authorities designated by the Secretary of State to levy more than a certain amount in rates , their only form of independent finance . |
| 22 | If you see and screen more than a certain target number of patients you will get paid more . ’ |
| 23 | It was difficult for our branch of the bank , which was not allowed to keep more than a certain amount of money in the safe , and often had to send documents and money to the head branch in Parma . |
| 24 | In certain mines the men were not allowed to earn more than a certain sum but there is no evidence of this invidious practice at Coniston . |
| 25 | However , if it was expanding at more than a certain critical rate , gravity would never be strong enough to stop it , and the universe would continue to expand forever . |
| 26 | On the other hand , if the rocket has more than a certain critical speed ( about seven miles per second ) gravity will not be strong enough to pull it back , so it will keep going away from the earth forever . |
| 27 | If the density is less than a certain critical value , determined by the rate of expansion , the gravitational attraction will be too weak to halt the expansion . |
| 28 | Heisenberg showed that the uncertainty in the position of the particle times the uncertainty in its velocity times the mass of the particle can never be smaller than a certain quantity , which is known as Planck 's constant . |
| 29 | Also , it may be worth pointing out that most shareware distributors offer a policy whereby users buying more than a certain number of disks pay less per disk . |
| 30 | ‘ I think you deserve more than a certain amount of punishment for making me wet and nearly giving me a heart-attack — Do you know how difficult it would have been to get an ambulance out here to you ? ’ |