Example sentences of "[verb] less than [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we are to study the genetics of quantitative characters we should aim to know less than the exact genotype responsible for each phenotype . |
| 2 | This will leave a " flatter " drop which will magnify less than a spherical drop . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But with a cheap overdraft facility at around 17.5 per cent , holders should have not difficulty in settling the month 's account in full — and it costs less than a conventional credit card . |
| 5 | It means that the compass shows less than the actual amount of turn . |
| 6 | The British Rail scheme would certainly cost less than the old plan as it now proposed a single-track tunnel , not a twin tunnel . |
| 7 | For 1974–79 and 1979–84 which regions lose more and which lose less than the national average ? |
| 8 | The church 's spokesman , Bishop Joseph Duffy , said : ‘ We feel obliged to state that the wording proposed is basically flawed because it guarantees less than the total exclusion of deliberate abortion . ’ |
| 9 | The request ( 5:1 ) : this seems less than the whole truth ; but it is in the nature of a test-case , Israel had to leave Egypt in order to sacrifice because the nature of their sacrifice was offensive to the Egyptians ( 8:26 ) . |
| 10 | All cases against individuals involving less than a specified amount ( £25,000 , for example ) should be enforced through the County Court . |
| 11 | In fishes , the brain weighs less than the spinal cord ; in the horse the ratio is about 2.5 to 1 ; in the cat 5 to 1 ; in apes about 8 to 1 ; and in humans about 50 to 1 . |
| 12 | In the Borders , Peter Jeary , director of finance , said that more than half the 47,000 households on the council tax register would pay less than the regional community charge bills of £312 in 1992-93 . |
| 13 | At the time , the defections did amount to this proportion , but JD leaders then expelled 25 of the defectors and claimed that , as the remaining 37 represented less than the legal quota , they should be disqualified from parliament . |
| 14 | If the vendor shareholders are willing to accept this form of deferred consideration , with the debentures carrying less than an arm's-length interest rate , there is obviously a funding advantage to Newco . |
| 15 | The well-known American research by Hill ( 1970 ) has demonstrated the interlocking nature of support structures across the three generations , and has shown that grandchildren do feel responsibility to give assistance to their grandparents in this context , although in practice they actually do less than the intervening generation . |
| 16 | The average parish priest was poor and remained so throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries : he earned less than a well-paid labourer and was often dependent , in rural parishes , on the sale of eggs and on other minor agricultural pursuits . |
| 17 | The most recent surveys showed that 72 per cent of homeworkers earned less than the statutory minimum established by the Wages Council ( which the present government is hoping to abolish ) . |
| 18 | He was going to have less than a sensational report to make to his captain , Van Gelder reflected . |
| 19 | Similar to ( age-related ) personal allowance , the married couple 's age-related increases are subject to a couple 's income so it is possible that they might get less than the full addition — or maybe nothing extra at all . |
| 20 | Their interpretation won less than the complete assent of my companions . |
| 21 | The new curve is shown by the dashed line ; and at the previous equilibrium output , , firms are either making less than the normal rate of profit ( if the tax is levied on quasi-rents generated by existing capital ) or are finding that replacement investment ( if the tax is levied on the purchase of capital equipment ) is not profitable . |
| 22 | An August radio report suggested that more than 40,000,000 Soviet citizens were receiving less than the official subsistence wage of 75 roubles a month . |
| 23 | The last time they were in office Labour said the same thing , those earning less than a certain amount would not pay tax , however , in reality everybody paid out more and remember Harold Wilson 's pound in your pocket speech ? |
| 24 | ‘ Yes , and no doubt it will be legislated against when nostovision becomes less than a seven-day wonder . |
| 25 | He said the warlord 's militia controlled less than a square mile of the city . |
| 26 | Everybody talks about the five he had at the end and the last hole , but he missed less than a two-foot putt on the first in the first round . |
| 27 | If collective bargaining yields less than the required rise then firms will not be able to find enough workers to operate all newly installed machines and will have to pay above the settlement . |