Example sentences of "[be] less [subord] [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if you are less than a writer of near genius , can you by simply describing what your policemen do , hold your readers spellbound ? |
| 2 | For most purposes it is enough to know that an enterprise makes losses — that its revenues are less than the sum of its wages , its cost of capital and its cost of material inputs ( raw materials , components , energy and so on ) . |
| 3 | The survey tells us that the chances of being burgled are less than the risk of domestic fire and that the chances of robbery are smaller than those of being admitted to a psychiatric hospital — not that such statistics will be a lot of consolation to those who are burgled or robbed . |
| 4 | In this latter case the incremental costs of extra memory and software development is likely to be less than the price of a separate hardware controller . |
| 5 | These primordial black holes could be less than the size of the nucleus of an atom , yet their mass could be a billion tons , the mass of Mount Fuji . |
| 6 | For effective filtering , the ripple frequency must be very much lower than the frequency at which the series inductance becomes troublesome , and ideally the ESR must be less than the ratio of the specified ripple voltage to the ripple current . |
| 7 | This means that when the star got sufficiently dense , the repulsion caused by the exclusion principle would be less than the attraction of gravity . |
| 8 | Therefore , the condition for that balance of restraint from which we started out is that W < D , that is the value of winning the resource must be less than the cost of injury . |
| 9 | In the building trade it is well known that the cost of building a new building may be less than the cost of modifying an old one . |
| 10 | For example , the cost of buying a component externally may be less than the cost of making the component however , the potential supplier may have a history of poor industrial relations which may jeopardize supplies periodically ; this factor may be significant in the decision to make or buy . |
| 11 | Expressions such as " to insure adequately " and " to insure to the full value of the property " should be amended as the former covenant could be complied with if the cover equates to that recommended by the insurance company , and the latter could be interpreted as meaning the full market value of the property and , as such , could be less than the cost of reinstatement . |
| 12 | The condition that the mean lifetime wealth converges is that , which requires in effect that the intrinsic growth of capital ( ) should be less than the growth of population . |
| 13 | Secondly , if there is a rotation axis relating three or more CO ligands , the number of bands will be less than the number of ligands because some modes will be degenerate . |
| 14 | If now the liquid is brought into contact with the solid , so as to wet it , then the energy of the interface between the solid and the liquid will be less than the sum of surface energies of the two surfaces when they are in contact with air . |
| 15 | Other price rises will be less than the rate of inflation . |
| 16 | They were less than a quarter of a kilometre from the castle . |
| 17 | Santorini is less than a couple of miles from where you 're sitting . |
| 18 | That fee is less than a quarter of the £300,000 Bassett paid Arsenal nearly two years ago , yet there are still no takers . |
| 19 | Indeed , the current legal minimum allowance of 450 square centimetres per bird gives the bird a space which is less than a page of this magazine . |
| 20 | Secondly , the range of birth weights is less than the range of infant weights , and head circumference and length at birth are known to be inaccurate measurements . |
| 21 | Bearing in mind that the gap between the read/write heads and the hard disk platter is less than the size of a single smoke particle , it is sensible to declare the computer work area a no-smoking zone . |
| 22 | If the cost of abuse is less than the cost of implementing and enforcing regulatory structures in preventing the abuse , there seems to be , prima facie , a case for doing nothing , at least on a preventive level . |
| 23 | there is a number k>0 which is less than the cost of any step : cost ( N , C ) r k for every node N and child C. |
| 24 | In this case the benefit from the additional information is less than the cost of obtaining it . |
| 25 | In this case the benefit from the additional information is less than the cost of obtaining it . |
| 26 | This is made possible either by divestment of subsidiaries ( ie a sale from one company to another ) or by hostile takeovers from ‘ break-up specialists ’ , who calculate that the value of the whole company as determined by the Stock Market , is less than the value of the sum of the parts . |
| 27 | If it is proved to the satisfaction of the court that the value of the company 's assets is less than the amount of its liabilities , taking into account its contingent and prospective liabilities ( Section 123(2) ) . |
| 28 | a creditor has judgment for a debt , execution of which is unsatisfied ; ( c ) the court is satisfied that the company is unable to pay its debts as they fall due ; ( d ) the court is satisfied that the value of the company 's assets is less than the amount of its liabilities . |
| 29 | If in the year in which the benefit is given to the taxpayer the amount of the relevant income is less than the amount of the benefit then the individual is only taxed on the amount of the relevant income but in subsequent years he can be further charged if there is further relevant income but never in excess of the amount of the benefit ( s740(2) ) . |
| 30 | ‘ He knows he could not find an independent panel anywhere in Britain which would accept it is right to make an offer which is less than the rate of inflation to people who work in a service which is already underpaid and understaffed . ’ |