Example sentences of "be [det] than [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | maybe no only they 're more than a year . |
| 2 | we 're , we 're more than a quarter . |
| 3 | Her Cloaths are fewer than the Time before . |
| 4 | The sense of satisfaction was bigger than a prop 's ribcage ; the problems had been fewer than a hooker 's braincells . |
| 5 | But if you are less than a writer of near genius , can you by simply describing what your policemen do , hold your readers spellbound ? |
| 6 | 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 . " |
| 7 | ‘ No , Miss Eyre , you are less than a servant , because you do not work , ’ replied Miss Abbott . |
| 8 | For Sonny , those dramatic events are less than a blur . |
| 9 | Elections are less than a month away , and Mr Anguita is probably Spain 's second most popular politician after the Socialist Prime Minister , Felipe Gonzalez . |
| 10 | County council elections are less than a week away , and one of the key issues is bound to be the state of our schools . |
| 11 | In some cases they accrue entitlements to holiday pay which they receive as a lump sum on the termination of their employment , although in the holiday camps sector these accrued holiday entitlements are less than the holiday entitlements of comparable regular staff . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | If drivers had to pay all these costs , they would be discouraged from making journeys where the benefits of travelling are less than the costs . |
| 14 | Following heavy rationalisation , it generated £200m turnover last year , and has turned around from being loss-making to earning ‘ profits that are less than the industry average ’ . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ What with missing sleep and everything else , my nerves are more than a bit wrung-out , I 'm afraid . ’ |
| 17 | You are more than a grandmother . |
| 18 | And that misuse of the aerosol sprays is probably responsible for about three thousand five hundred deaths , but I think you 've got to put that into perspective , first of all against the six thousand people who are killed on the roads every year in Britain , and you 've also got to set it against our estimate that there are more than a quarter of a million people alive today who would have died in childhood if it had n't been specifically for the advantage of being able to take medicines , anti-biotics generally in their childhood to keep them alive . |
| 19 | They are more than a spark but less than a small fire and exporters have high hopes . |
| 20 | If there are more than a handful of lawyers doing personal injury work get a member of the support staff to compile and distribute a monthly newsletter . |
| 21 | No doubt you 're very switched on , when it comes to good productivity but in case , like me , you are more than a touch muddy , here are some helpful hints . |
| 22 | ‘ Others have understandably wanted to recoup their investment and the rents they are asking are more than a student can afford on a £750 a term grant . ’ |
| 23 | A man 's wife , his child , these things are more than the world to him . |
| 24 | Possible tests of success in this facet of the changes is whether non-executives are clear about their contribution and whether decisions are more than the sum of executive preferences . |
| 25 | Good learning environments are more than the sum of their parts ; they are exciting , attractive , motivating and challenging for those within them . |
| 26 | In any other times , it can be less than a week . |
| 27 | On consumer spending , Scotland 's 0.7 per cent increase will be less than the UK 's 0.9 per cent , but just ahead of the south-east , north-west , Wales and West Midlands . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Perhaps , now , the renewal premium will be less than the £323.00 quoted in your letter ? |
| 30 | 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 . |