Example sentences of "[be] less than [art] [noun] [prep] " 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 | If anyone is less than a metre behind you , you lose a point ; if you are less than a metre behind anyone else , you gain a point . " |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This means that when the star got sufficiently dense , the repulsion caused by the exclusion principle would be less than the attraction of gravity . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This royalty shall not be less than the royalty on sales of the unadapted Video |
| 14 | This royalty shall not be less than the royalty on sales of the unadapted Video |
| 15 | As in the civil sector , the gap in know-how may be less than the gap in the technological level of what is produced ; often a conscious decision is made to forego the most advanced option . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Other price rises will be less than the rate of inflation . |
| 20 | Lastly , the value of the call option can not be less than the difference between the share price and the exercise price : . |
| 21 | Lastly , the value can not be less than the difference between the exercise price and the share price : |
| 22 | They were less than a quarter of a kilometre from the castle . |
| 23 | The agreement was for consultancy which records show were less than the sums of money involved . |
| 24 | Santorini is less than a couple of miles from where you 're sitting . |
| 25 | That fee is less than a quarter of the £300,000 Bassett paid Arsenal nearly two years ago , yet there are still no takers . |
| 26 | If anyone is less than a metre behind you , you lose a point ; if you are less than a metre behind anyone else , you gain a point . " |
| 27 | Johanna 's home is less than a mile from the spot where her body was found . |
| 28 | An incident room staffed by 30 officers working full time on the case is being run at Martlesham police headquarters , which is less than a mile from the scene of crime . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The 75 per cent requirement is less than the requirement for 90 per cent acceptances in respect of the shares to which the offer relates in order to effect a compulsory sale by the minority under CA 1985 , s429 ( see Chapter 14 ) . |