Example sentences of "be [adj] [subord] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Make sure that the dumb-bell bars are lower than the top of your chest . |
| 2 | Publishers ' discounts are lower than the normal 35% off , and copies sold in the shops or to libraries are usually at the suggested published price . |
| 3 | These values are lower than the 2–3% reflectance predicted from heating experiments in which the maturity of the sample is estimated after heating ( Snowdon , 1979 ) . |
| 4 | As Ian Jones at the National Institute for Economic and Social Research has pointed out , benefits in the first year of operation are lower than the figures for net effective cost imply . |
| 5 | In fact , £3,976 should be debited to deferred tax , as the accounting profits are lower than the taxable profits . |
| 6 | For both Lothian and Scotland the 1991 totals are lower than the 1981–85 base but higher than the 1991 ‘ interim ’ target . |
| 7 | But direct operating costs are lower since the fees levied by aerodrome owners for landing and parking etc. are generally much more reasonable than in the UK |
| 8 | Earn outs are impractical if the business will be operated as a division of the purchaser rather than a stand alone subsidiary . |
| 9 | That would have been absurd because the word , ‘ converts , ’ itself implied that the bailee had done something with the bailed goods which was not authorised by the terms of the bailment . |
| 10 | Hence amplifiers involving first-order networks are stable if the closing angle between plots of and is less than 12 dB per octave as crossover is approached . |
| 11 | She would have been asleep if the fly had not returned to her hand . |
| 12 | Duncan had been asleep when the policeman burst into the room to give him the news that Leeming had been found . |
| 13 | He thought that the prairie grassland climax had been stable since the last ice age and could be restored at any time even after interference by humankind . |
| 14 | Moreover that growth has been greatest where the decline in manufacturing employment has been least — that is , in the regions of ‘ the south ’ . |
| 15 | Mr Smith , they added , had been depressed since the death of his father 11 years ago , and he found it hard to work the farm alone . |
| 16 | Work by Bagnold has shown that the pressures are greatest when the pocket of trapped air is thinnest and that when the dimension of the pocket at right angles to the cliff reaches half that of the depth of the pocket the pressure is negligible . |
| 17 | It is felt that tighter controls on mercury emissions are unnecessary because the existing emissions to the aquatic environment are not harmful to human health , ’ said Phil . ’ |
| 18 | Since 1940 the average yield , which should in theory have been lower than the official limit but in practice was not always so , has steadily increased : |
| 19 | One option would be to raise the duty on petrol : Britain 's fuel prices have long been lower than the EC average , and petrol duties have provided a static share of tax revenues in spite of the rapid growth in road use . |
| 20 | Many nations are apprehensive because the treaty establishes no controls to prevent the ruthless industrial and trading practices that built Japan 's pre-war commercial empire . |
| 21 | In isolated word recognition only substitution errors of the meet/meat kind are possible since the beginning , ending , and duration of the word are known . |
| 22 | Longer addressing times are possible because the display need not be refreshed at TV frequencies while it is read on the screen . |
| 23 | A Management Committee consisting of ERA , GDC , our contract architects , and TSA was established to run the project and this part of the project highlighted that ‘ genuine partnerships ’ are possible when the determination to succeed is there . |
| 24 | We 've found it best to glue the wheels onto the axles with superglue and wait until they are dry before the pin is added . |
| 25 | I am upset because the big man gets his money first . |
| 26 | While it would have been preferable if the second defendant participated in the trial in Ohio , and that was a consideration to be taken into account on forum conveniens , that factor was insufficient to outweigh the other factors . |
| 27 | The method had found unburnt paraffin in the person 's lungs , thus suggesting that the person had inhaled paraffin and so been alive when the fire started . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm told that he may still have been alive when the murderer , or murderers , hammered the shaft through his neck and into the floor of the hut . |
| 29 | These have been possible because the portraits of Roman emperors of the first two centuries AD were , for the most part , strongly individualised and because portraits in the round have survived in large numbers — there are in some cases well over a hundred examples for each emperor . |
| 30 | This has been possible because the interiors of regions I , II and III are all flat . |