Example sentences of "[adv] less than [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A local farmer is , shall we say , somewhat less than a complete admirer of the railway . |
| 2 | Firstly , most of the competing hypotheses scored sufficiently less than the correct hypothesis and so could be eliminated by forwards pruning from the search on acoustic grounds ( see Fig. 9.2 , point B ) , thus preventing the growth of an increasingly large band of hypotheses . |
| 3 | 4.6 The Company undertakes , notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Clause , to purchase in each year of the currency of this Agreement not less than the minimum amount of the Products ( by value ) set out for that year in Schedule 4 hereto . |
| 4 | ( 2 ) For the purposes of subsection ( 1 ) ( a ) a fishing vessel is British-owned if — ( a ) the legal title to the vessel is vested wholly in one or more qualified persons or companies ; and ( b ) the vessel is beneficially owned — ( i ) as to not less than the relevant percentage of the property in the vessel , by one or more qualified persons , or ( ii ) wholly by a qualified company or companies , or ( iii ) by one or more qualified companies and , as to not less than the relevant percentage of the remainder of the property in the vessel , by one or more qualified persons . |
| 5 | ( 2 ) For the purposes of subsection ( 1 ) ( a ) a fishing vessel is British-owned if — ( a ) the legal title to the vessel is vested wholly in one or more qualified persons or companies ; and ( b ) the vessel is beneficially owned — ( i ) as to not less than the relevant percentage of the property in the vessel , by one or more qualified persons , or ( ii ) wholly by a qualified company or companies , or ( iii ) by one or more qualified companies and , as to not less than the relevant percentage of the remainder of the property in the vessel , by one or more qualified persons . |
| 6 | The directors have considered the value of the remaining fixed assets and are satisfied that they are worth , in total , not less than the aggregate amount at which they are stated in the company 's accounts . |
| 7 | In the case of a public company , however , s. 11 requires the capital clause of the memorandum to state a figure which is not less than the authorized minimum . |
| 8 | Since some proportion of interest recipients would not be liable for tax , the composite rate is always less than the standard rate . |
| 9 | It is , of course , vital to appreciate that the changes described occur at the expense of gain ; the closed-loop gain under negative feedback is always less than the open-loop gain . |
| 10 | Comparisons between the rugs of certain groups are more difficult because they are produced in such a diverse range of qualities that the gulf between the best and worst pieces may be greater than that between the groups themselves : e.g. , the lowest grade of workshop Kerman may cost slightly less than a good quality Russian Shirvan , but the finest workshop Kermans can be over five times the price . |
| 11 | The total value of a player 's army may be slightly less than the agreed value , and will often be a few points short simply because there is nothing left to spend the odd point on . |
| 12 | The statement comes just two months after the group predicted it would make pre-tax profits of £867,000 , slightly less than the previous year . |
| 13 | ( The outcome was also less than the Soviet Union had hoped for . |
| 14 | But then all shopkeepers had to do was ring up less than the actual transaction … |
| 15 | This particular lie is engineered to create the impression of a finely-honed athlete who has temporarily lost his edge , which is a little less than the complete truth . |
| 16 | The surface energies of glue-solid interfaces are generally rather less than the free surface energies of strong solids , but not very greatly so . |
| 17 | Admittedly , they received rather less than the capitalized value of the rents if they decided to move from " temporary obligation " to redemption without the consent of their peasants . |
| 18 | The result of such practice may often be that the actual operative working on site receives substantially less than an economic rate for individual tasks , with resultant bad feeling and possibly bad workmanship . |
| 19 | Nor was its misfortune unique , for Norwich , the capital of East Anglia , returned a moderate 40 per cent under £2 , far less than the adjoining countryside , yet within a dozen years the worsted manufacture commenced a decline that was to contribute largely to the total of more than 500 unemployed males , and altogether upwards of 2,500 destitute persons by 1570 . |
| 20 | THE average radiation exposure to a Sellafield site worker is now less than the average dose which people in the United Kingdom receive every year from natural radiation sources . |
| 21 | The tax deductibility of interest expense reduces the cost of borrowing , and the after-tax discount rate is therefore less than the gross discount rate . |
| 22 | It would create about 15,000 jobs and would cost between £2 billion and £3 billion , considerably less than the previous route . |
| 23 | If the used space is significantly less than the allocated space for a particular file , the space may be reclaimed by use of the CONVERT utility although this does not apply to the DC transactions file and the QA transactions file ( DCSTAT.FIL and QAPACK.FIL in the example configuration ) . |
| 24 | Although we are unable to ascertain the price increases for the various insurance companies in Northern Ireland and Great Britain as we can in the Republic of Ireland , nevertheless our research does indicate that even after allowing for these rate increases the cumulative increase for Autocover in Northern Ireland and Great Britain since the commencement of the scheme is significantly less than the average increase charged by most other insurance companies during the same period . |
| 25 | Jiang set annual growth targets of 8-9 per cent for the 1991-95 period , significantly less than the double-digit expansion rates advocated by Deng , but greater than the 6 per cent target advanced by Premier Li Peng in his March 1992 government work report [ see pp. 38861-62 ] . |