Example sentences of "not be [adj] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can the Secretary of State point to any year in the past 10 in which the September in-patient waiting list figures have not been higher than for every year under Labour ? |
| 2 | I hesitate to pronounce on the degree of tranquillity in his life , but since 1943 he has not been further than sixty miles from this spot . |
| 3 | This means that it must not be wider than is reasonably necessary for the protection of the employer 's business ; it must not place an unreasonable restraint on the employee 's freedom to earn his or her living ; and it must not be too wide from the public viewpoint . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The accuracy of the feedback need not be greater than the discrimination ability of the trainee but equally its value will diminish if it is too approximate . |
| 6 | For these reasons our test formula — x must not be greater than 2y — is here not wholly reliable . |
| 7 | One place lower would be 6 and of course 6 can not be greater than 6 . |
| 8 | [ If a range of prices is offered this range should not be greater than [ £500,000 ] ; |
| 9 | The number of troops and the amount of equipment of all non-German armed forces stationed in Berlin will not be greater than at the time of signature of the present treaty . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The shoulders of each player must not be lower than his hips ’ . |
| 13 | Risers should not be lower than 4″ , or higher than 7″ . |
| 14 | The standards for thesis acceptance should not be lower than those applied by journal referees when considering papers for publication . |
| 15 | It is only possible to assert that work begun with a lifting of the heart is likely to go on for longer than work begun with a contracting of the stomach , that work done with a lifting of the heart will develop further than work done with a contracting of the stomach , but there is nothing to indicate that the small amount of work which is the result of a contracting of the stomach will not be better than the large amount of work done with a lifting of the heart , than the rich development which is the likely result of work undertaken with a lifting of the heart , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , and Goldberg , poring over the pages covered in his friend 's tiny handwriting , wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve , glanced up at the sheet in his typewriter , always bearing in mind , he typed ( as Harsnet had written ) , that better and worse are relative terms , and that one man 's better is another man 's worse , one age 's better is another age 's worse , one civilization 's better is another civilization 's worse , better , worse , relative values , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , always bearing in mind , wrote Harsnet , that in the long run it all comes to the same thing , long run , scribbled Goldberg in the margin , same thing . |
| 16 | Sex could not be better than this . |
| 17 | It might be difficult and changes be necessary , but would this not be better than what we have now ? |
| 18 | Nevertheless , it is still necessary to feed out calcium with oats , as the phosphorus level should not be higher than that of calcium . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ For smaller businesses , the American Express card today will probably cost less than other cards and will certainly not be higher than a bank card . |
| 21 | Mr Robson , a transportation expert representing Bioplan , said noise levels created by traffic in the larger of the proposed hospital 's two car parks , would not be higher than average levels of noise . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | How that is to be done necessitates an explanation that can not be other than labyrinthine . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The abolition of the distinction would not occur because historical social psychologists would be uninterested in theoretical issues , but because theory could not be other than historically applicable . |
| 26 | It seems to be the very purest form of the art , even though it can not be other than a minor branch of it . |
| 27 | To share a little could not be other than beneficial to the recipient 's soul ! ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 " . |
| 30 | 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 . |