Example sentences of "at [adj] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And certainly that other main arm of executive control — the army — seems little better at this than the police , for the number of participant accounts of their deep structures remains negligible , supporting McCabe 's ( 1980 ) contention that we should be asking of all of these costly institutions , ‘ who is to be controlled by whom and for what reasons ? ’ |
| 2 | Initially the Germans were more proficient at this than the Allies , for they kept their snipers in the same sector for long periods so they became familiar with the enemy 's trench systems there , while the Allies rotated their snipers with the units to which they belonged . |
| 3 | There are hundreds of different negotiating tactics and many people are rather better at these than the critical creation of the basic plan . |
| 4 | The prescription of glasses may not help their reading distance , but they may be able to read adequately by holding their books at closer than the normal distance . |
| 5 | As Desmond Haynes and Philip Simmons added 99 at better than a run a minute with a volley of boundaries , he must have wondered what he had let himself in for . |
| 6 | I heard him scramble to his feet and his metal-tipped boots took him down the stone corridor at better than the track record . |
| 7 | While industry sources suggest up to 200 could be employed , Lesli O'Dowd estimates the likely figure at less than a quarter of that , with perhaps as few as 10–15 jobs for local people . |
| 8 | Cabra 's share price , down from 120p to 7¼p , values the company at less than a third of the anticipated £23m . |
| 9 | He added : ‘ With the launch last autumn of the Flexiheat tariff to complement Economy 7 , night-rate electricity can now be purchased at less than a third of the standard domestic rate , offering economic efficient hot water and heating . ’ |
| 10 | For really top class Joplin you need pay only a little more for a selection from Dick Hyman 's complete survey mentioned above , but at less than a fiver , Arpin 's disc will do very nicely for a representative sample of Joplin — which is really all I can take in a single sitting ! |
| 11 | What the myth does , of course , is to cause people to relate to their inner society of internal objects , i.e. , at less than a mature level . |
| 12 | The working hypothesis I end with , however , is that the subjective experiences of work , engendered by the application of particular rational-scientific principles of work organization , can have the psychic consequence that the worker is asked to manage himself at less than a mature level . |
| 13 | A voice says it 's solely from my pension , quite able and get enough to give to join the association at less than a penny a week . |
| 14 | It also took typewriter ribbon spools , available everywhere at less than a £1 . |
| 15 | Dunedin charges £15 per holding for the sale , but for larger sums this can work out at less than a front-end trust fee . |
| 16 | Invariably this works out at less than the cost of the repairs , because a vendor would be unlikely to reduce his price to the extent of their full cost — he would argue that he had already taken some account of defects and age when fixing the price of his house in the first place , and if he had been expected to replace all the windows he would have asked a correspondingly higher price . |
| 17 | The wording of the most recent draft of the Net Book Agreement ( 1957 ) states that , as a basic rule , ‘ net books shall not be sold … to the public at less than the net published prices ’ . |
| 18 | … The second matter applies particularly to private sector , fee-paying schools where , as the Financial Secretary knows , there is often an arrangement for the children of staff in these schools to be taught at less than the commercial fee in other schools . |
| 19 | gon na take forty five percent of our business at less than the cost to do the job , that do n't make good business sense . |
| 20 | A black hole is a region of space from which it is impossible to escape if one is traveling at less than the speed of light . |
| 21 | Static or declining firms are likely to be valued at less than the book value of their assets , while rapidly growing firms can be priced at many times the book value of their assets , reflecting the fact that growth adds value to the initial investment outlay . |
| 22 | The function includes part of the competitive labour supply function , i.e. that segment of L s above and to the right of point B , but renders inoperative the remaining part , i.e. that segment of L s below and to the left of point B. Workers who are willing to work at less than the wage stipulated by trades unions ( w 1 in Figure 5.1 ) will be excluded from active participation in the labour market for as long as these powerful combinations maintain their stranglehold as monopoly suppliers of labour . |
| 23 | Here the commission could dispose of land at less than the market price . |
| 24 | The draftsman should ensure that any licence fee or sub-rent is taken into account in the calculation of the tenant 's turnover ; indeed , he may think it appropriate to cover the contingency that the tenant grants a licence of part of the demised property at less than the market rate . |
| 25 | Those obligations will include : ( 1 ) a covenant to try his best to keep the scheme fully let ; ( 2 ) a covenant not to let at less than the market rent obtainable at the date of the letting ; ( 3 ) a covenant not to grant rent free periods or concessionary rent periods without the landlord 's consent ; ( 4 ) a covenant not to sublet except in defined subletting units ; ( 5 ) a covenant not to waive or commute any rental payments under subleases ; ( 6 ) a covenant not to accept any surrender of any sublease without the landlord 's consent ; ( 7 ) a covenant to enforce subtenants ' covenants in subleases ; ( 8 ) a covenant not to permit any sub-underletting of a sub-let part . |
| 26 | If the auctioneer , by mistake , forgets that there is a reserve price and knocks down the goods at less than the reserve price , there is no sale . |
| 27 | But most estimates put the figure at more than a quarter of all the water that enters the water mains network . |
| 28 | However , if it was expanding at more than a certain critical rate , gravity would never be strong enough to stop it , and the universe would continue to expand forever . |
| 29 | Only the better-off could afford to travel at more than a walking pace in eighteenth-century England — unless , that is , they had access to a riding horse . |
| 30 | Eisenhower 's comments to reporters on the outcome at Geneva may hint at more than a desire to present a brave face to the world . |