Example sentences of "be [adj] than [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead , some individuals or groups in society will fail to forecast inflation correctly and so may , for example , seek money wage increases which are lower than necessary to maintain their real wages ; other individuals or groups may not have the power to gain full compensation for inflation even if they do predict it correctly . |
| 2 | Even these grim figures are lower than many once feared , thanks to the rally in Japanese shares since early March . |
| 3 | In addition , because HMOs can effectively choose which customers to enrol , there is some suggestion of ‘ cream skimming ’ , ie that HMOs are choosing to enrol customers who are lower than average users of services and have an incentive to discriminate against potentially high users of services ( Petchey , 1987 ) . |
| 4 | Much depends on overall volumes , load factors and the type of contract , but according to one source , UK prices for , say , an 80MW load with a 60% factor are lower than all the major EC producers except France . |
| 5 | redirecting overseas exploration efforts into offshore areas where finding and development costs are lower than equivalent offshore environments ; |
| 6 | redirecting our overseas exploration efforts into onshore areas where finding and development costs are lower than equivalent offshore environments ; |
| 7 | ‘ We will be redirecting our overseas exploration efforts into onshore areas where finding and developing costs are lower than equivalent offshore environments , ’ Mr Darby said . |
| 8 | Also , the fact that police officers will know that female crime rates are lower than male crime rates will further incline them to the view that women are not by nature ‘ criminal types ’ . |
| 9 | Most rates are lower than last year 's levels . |
| 10 | Profits are lower and earnings are lower than last year , but cash generation which we 've been working particularly hard on er for the past couple of years er and which we will be talking about further in a minute has come through extremely well er and we produced higher levels of cash this year than at any time in the company 's history . |
| 11 | Assuming that average measured Sm/Nd ratios are lower than those of their source regions , the trend for most of the islands suggests that the age of the Nd isotopic heterogeneity is less than 1Gyr . |
| 12 | The overall disability prevalence rates generated by the OPCS disability survey are lower than those produced by the GHS : 208 per 1000 population aged 16+ compared with 135 per 1000 . |
| 13 | Levels of in-patient hospital admission in Britain are lower than those reported from North America . |
| 14 | If the fees certified by The Law Society are lower than those in the bill , only the lower sum is recoverable by the solicitor . |
| 15 | How is it that , when this country has been going through a recession , which has been shared by countries throughout the world — not least the United States — our unemployment figures are lower than those of many other countries ? |
| 16 | Although these correlations are lower than those from Study 2 they are present despite the fact that a different set of subjects from those who gave the risk ratings are giving the recognition measures . |
| 17 | The numbers of studies of this area are lower than those of more northerly tracts , and this should suggest that further work in a variety of sub-disciplines be carried out here . |
| 18 | This study shows that the sensitivity and specificity of three commercial serological tests ( Pyloriset Latex , Helico-G , and Biolab Malakit ) are lower than those of the standard biopsy related tests ( culture , histology , and CLO test ) . |
| 19 | These percentages are lower than those reported in postdissolution trials . |
| 20 | The banking service allows funds to be deposited in numerous foreign currencies as well as the dollar , and the conversion rates charged to customers are lower than those of commercial bank or exchange centres . |
| 21 | This can have advantages where credit restrictions on local banks make foreign currency borrowing the only source of finance available or if interest rates are lower than domestic currency loan rates . |
| 22 | Barclays , whose exposure to Third World debts are lower than most , led the way ahead with a 22p gain to 518p . |
| 23 | Despite being directed against relatively specific components of H pylori , their sensitivity ( excluding that of Bio-Rad GAP Test ) and their specificity values are lower than some of the recently published data . |
| 24 | ‘ To the nautical mind some false signals are falser than other false signals . |
| 25 | ‘ It might have been simpler than that . |
| 26 | Silver production had been lower than average in the first seven months of 1989 . |
| 27 | However , the vaccine 's effectiveness in developing countries , particularly in inducing serum neutralising antibodies against poliovirus types 1 and 3 , has often been lower than expected . |
| 28 | Without those benefits the profits would have been lower than last year , although the core transport and distribution divisions did much better . |
| 29 | Binary signals are simpler than analogue signals and they can be transmitted much faster . |
| 30 | Some treated sewage effluents , for example , are cleaner than some rivers , while a ‘ bad ’ pollution on a potable supply river may not even be noticeable in an urban watercourse . |