Example sentences of "can [adv] be [adj] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further on in the above entry he admits he can only be less than himself in company . |
| 2 | The greatest mass a white dwarf can have is 1–44 times the Sun 's mass ; neutron stars can not be heavier than about two solar masses . |
| 3 | The cash value of scientific observations in this context must therefore be based upon subjective experience and can not be greater than the cash value of the latter ; for it is subjective experience that , ultimately , validates our objective scales of energy intensity . |
| 4 | One place lower would be 6 and of course 6 can not be greater than 6 . |
| 5 | The intrinsic value of an option can not be greater than the premium itself as this situation would provide investors with an instant arbitrage profit . |
| 6 | Formally , ordinal scales are asymmetrical in that if A is greater than B , B can not be greater than A. Transitivity still holds in that if A is greater than B , and B is greater than C , then A is greater than C. It is these properties which enable us to order cases along a continuum . |
| 7 | Prices and values can not be higher than what people can pay — which means , how much people can borrow — and lenders , belatedly learning prudence , are no longer willing to give the high multiples of gross income they did in the 1980s or the high proportion of price . |
| 8 | This Pool who is not Poole can not be worse than the last idiot I saw from the same backward profession : he was extremely fortunate that I did not send the details of his impertinences to the Medical Association or whatever it is called . |
| 9 | Those three operations then are the measure of modern medical practice : cancers which might have developed from an enlarged prostate , some rogue polyps and a spinal tumour , any one of which could have proved fatal , were all pre-empted by discovery and cure ; and I can not be other than deeply grateful for this additional lease of life . |
| 10 | How that is to be done necessitates an explanation that can not be other than labyrinthine . |
| 11 | Although their boundaries can not be other than arbitrary , the South-West , the West Midlands , the Northern and the rest are for the most part easily identifiable territories , demarcated with a fair degree of consistency by public authorities , the media and national associations of all sorts including political parties . |
| 12 | It seems to be the very purest form of the art , even though it can not be other than a minor branch of it . |
| 13 | There are for instance extreme examples of the inhibition or punishment of the sexual act in which laughter can not be other than inhumane if it can be found at all : for example in Connebert , where a lecherous priest has to castrate himself in order to save his life , or Le Prestre et le leu , " The priest and the wolf " , a laconically brief tale of just twenty-eight lines relating how a peasant digs a trap for a lecherous priest , into which first a wolf , then the priest , and then the wife 's maid sent to see if the priest is coming fall in turn , after which the peasant kills the wolf , castrates the priest , and chases off the maid . |
| 14 | Any figure at which the assessor of damages arrives can not be other than artificial and , if the aim is that justice meted out to all litigants should be even-handed instead of depending on idiosyncracies of the assessor , whether jury or judge , the figure must be " basically a conventional figure derived from experience and from awards in comparable cases " . |
| 15 | A detachment can not be larger than half the size of its parent regiment , so a regiment of twenty men could have a detachment of ten . |
| 16 | This is impossible since turnover can only fall to zero , it can not be less than this amount . |
| 17 | Some or all of the authorized shares will be issued to shareholders ( and are called issued shares or called-up shares ) , with an issue price which can exceed the par value but can not be less than the par value . |
| 18 | Lastly , the value of the call option can not be less than the difference between the share price and the exercise price : . |
| 19 | Lastly , the value can not be less than the difference between the exercise price and the share price : |
| 20 | They can take up to three breaks , but the total length can not be longer than five years . |
| 21 | For instance , if A is longer than B , then it follows that B can not be longer than A ; hence , ’ — is longer than — ’ is an asymmetric relation . |
| 22 | No dose of a highly potentized remedy can be too small that it can not be stronger than the natural disease , that it can not at least partially overcome it and that it can not start the process of cure . |
| 23 | Secondly , though such a society may exhibit the tension , already described , between those who accept the rules and those who reject the rules except where fear of social pressure induces them to conform , it is plain that the latter can not be more than a minority , if so loosely organized a society of persons , approximately equal in physical strength , is to endure : for otherwise those who reject the rules would have too little social pressure to fear … |
| 24 | who thereupon took the road to heterodoxy in his disappointment : this can not be more than a fragment of the story . |
| 25 | Our data suggest that the biologically active amidated peptides that are potential mediators of these actions can not be more than a small proportion of the total progastrin produced . |
| 26 | Although such rescue excavation work can not be more than piecemeal , as sites become available , results already obtained have provided useful information on conditions of urban life , in the types of buildings where people lived , on the desertion of houses within towns and around them , and on the distribution of trades within the towns . |
| 27 | The resolution must specify the date on which the authority to make purchases will expire , which can not be later than 18 months from the date on which the resolution is passed ( s166(3) ( c ) and ( 4 ) ) . |
| 28 | In some cases he may be able to obtain an injunction to restrain the breach and in any case he will be adequately compensated by his remedy in damages for breach of contract as his damage can scarcely be other than financial . |
| 29 | You also need to allow for the cost of both building and tiling a separate shower enclosure ; this can often be more than the cost if installing the shower itself . |
| 30 | Attracting candidates can often be easier than selecting the right one , especially during a period when jobs are hard to obtain . |