Example sentences of "less than [art] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To have 32 seeds in a 128 women 's singles draw , would be nothing less than a protection racket . |
| 2 | Despite a tug of interest he moved away , and after a little less than a minute Alison returned . |
| 3 | Mrs Guest was born to polite society , but broke with convention as a wayward débutante , taking to the stage and sitting for Diego Rivera in something less than a presentation gown . |
| 4 | In less than a decade Japan could have moved from being the most lightly taxed OECD country to being one of the most heavily taxed . |
| 5 | Linked to the reforms of the national insurance system are a set of proposals to strengthen the rights of workers who work less than a lull week . |
| 6 | But in less than a year Poland and Hungary had proved otherwise ‘ and now you have the strongest of the strong , the East Germans , jumping out like water from a bucket with a hole in it . |
| 7 | Christopher Martin-Jenkins succinctly summed up the situation when commenting that in less than a year England had been outplayed by the entire subcontinent . |
| 8 | Now we know why the bream weighs less than a side-on view suggests it should . |
| 9 | If the rent under the sublease is made to increase at the same rate as the rent under the headlease , and the rent under the headlease is less than a market rent at the date of grant of the sublease , the rent under the sublease may well exceed the true market rent after the first rent review . |
| 10 | No , cos they 're fluorescent , it 's only about twelve watts , it 's less than a light bulb . |
| 11 | In MAKING IT BETTER , the improbably , coolly glamorous Jane Asher plays Diana Harrington , half of a couple who work for the BBC and have sex problems : her husband of 20 years tells her he is leaving her to set up as an homosexual , an announcement which seems to disturb her less than a wheel clamp . |
| 12 | No Mills and Boon title has less than a print run of almost 100,000 , a figure that makes most bestseller lists look like chickenfeed . |
| 13 | Impressive as it is , however , Dame Edna 's show is no more or less than a star vehicle . |
| 14 | Botham went for 81 , but with less than an hour left of the fourth day Lamb accepted an offer of bad light , which most people thought was a mistake . |
| 15 | THE ALBUM that launched a thousand NME headlines and , more pertinently , confirmed once and for all that rap was no passing fad and was , in fact , nothing less than an art form . |
| 16 | Therefore , if the demand price is greater than the supply price for amounts just less than an equilibrium amount ; then , if the scale of production is temporarily diminished somewhat below that equilibrium amount , it will tend to return ; thus the equilibrium is stable for displacements in that direction . |
| 17 | The dorsal most or second dorsal most arm spines are the longest about 1½ arm segments long , the ventral ones usually less than an arm segment in length . |
| 18 | The dorsal or second dorsalmost spines is the longest , up to 2 arm segments in length , the ventral arm spines are short often less than an arm segment in length . |
| 19 | A subfamily of the Ophiuridae characterised by the disk usually covered by plates sometimes with thickened skin ; radial shield usually conspicuous ; arm combs sometimes present ; one to many apical papillae flanked by a continuous series of oral papillae ; second oral tentacle pore opening outside the mouth slit or opening outside but entering the mouth slit via a furrow ; oral shield variable in shape and size ; arms varying size ; arm spines usually less than an arm segment in length and usually appressed . |
| 20 | On the other hand , if there are no others in the field , an offer of , say , 2½ per cent less than the asking price could be made ; and if the house is somewhat overpriced , try an offer between 5 and 10 per cent less than the asking price and see what the reaction is . |
| 21 | On the other hand , if there are no others in the field , an offer of , say , 2½ per cent less than the asking price could be made ; and if the house is somewhat overpriced , try an offer between 5 and 10 per cent less than the asking price and see what the reaction is . |
| 22 | If you genuinely think that the property is worth less than the asking price , then make a lower offer . |
| 23 | Bruce Springsteen managed to pick up a new house for £2 million less than the asking price . |
| 24 | With respect to Fig. 9–12(b) he argues that , if the indifference curves shown related to ineligibles , then the utility gain from attempting to consume this good would be less than the utility gain from falsely claiming a cash transfer . |
| 25 | It costs £13,950 without extras , £2,000 less than the Escort RS 2000 , the replacement for the XR3i . |
| 26 | In some cases they accrue entitlements to holiday pay which they receive as a lump sum on the termination of their employment , although in the holiday camps sector these accrued holiday entitlements are less than the holiday entitlements of comparable regular staff . |
| 27 | Where , on a buy-in , the purchase price of Target 's shares is equal to or less than the subscription price ( ie , nominal value plus any share premium ) , there will not be any distribution within s209 so no ACT will be payable , but there will be a capital gains tax disposal by the shareholders . |
| 28 | However , if the market price is less than the contract price , the difference between the two represents the seller 's loss . |
| 29 | Section 30(1) entitles the buyer to reject all the goods if less than the contract quantity is delivered . |
| 30 | But you 've agreed to a budget that is less than the capping level . |