Example sentences of "less than the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The directors have considered the value of the remaining fixed assets and are satisfied that they are worth , in total , not less than the aggregate amount at which they are stated in the company 's accounts . |
| 2 | In the latter half of the twentieth century , belief in Sandys ' nuclear philosophy counted for less than the political opportunity that it provided for ending National Service . |
| 3 | The total value of a player 's army may be less than the agreed value , and will often be a few points short simply because there is nothing left to spend the few remaining points on . |
| 4 | The total value of a player 's army may be slightly less than the agreed value , and will often be a few points short simply because there is nothing left to spend the odd point on . |
| 5 | The total value of a player 's army may be less than the agreed value , and will often be a few points short simply because there is nothing left to spend the odd point on . |
| 6 | The objective is to confirm that all response times are less than the agreed target , and that response times for identical processes are consistent . |
| 7 | If collective bargaining yields less than the required rise then firms will not be able to find enough workers to operate all newly installed machines and will have to pay above the settlement . |
| 8 | ( 2 ) For the purposes of subsection ( 1 ) ( a ) a fishing vessel is British-owned if — ( a ) the legal title to the vessel is vested wholly in one or more qualified persons or companies ; and ( b ) the vessel is beneficially owned — ( i ) as to not less than the relevant percentage of the property in the vessel , by one or more qualified persons , or ( ii ) wholly by a qualified company or companies , or ( iii ) by one or more qualified companies and , as to not less than the relevant percentage of the remainder of the property in the vessel , by one or more qualified persons . |
| 9 | ( 2 ) For the purposes of subsection ( 1 ) ( a ) a fishing vessel is British-owned if — ( a ) the legal title to the vessel is vested wholly in one or more qualified persons or companies ; and ( b ) the vessel is beneficially owned — ( i ) as to not less than the relevant percentage of the property in the vessel , by one or more qualified persons , or ( ii ) wholly by a qualified company or companies , or ( iii ) by one or more qualified companies and , as to not less than the relevant percentage of the remainder of the property in the vessel , by one or more qualified persons . |
| 10 | She reflected upon , perhaps only now fully remembered , her sense , in forgiving Jack , of in some way devaluing him , accepting him and loving him as something less than the perfect being she had married . |
| 11 | ‘ The detestation of ‘ the profiteer ’ by Labour' , comments one historian , ‘ arose as much from an affront to its patriotism , as it did from latent class consciousness , and the victim of capital was seen as the patriotic community no less than the working class … . ’ |
| 12 | After Pentecost , they became assured that their experience of God 's activity in their midst and in their mission was nothing less than the continued work and presence of Jesus among them . |
| 13 | Before you settle for less than the genuine article , compare the price . |
| 14 | Since some proportion of interest recipients would not be liable for tax , the composite rate is always less than the standard rate . |
| 15 | One was a small café that sold pizza and chips for less than the small fortune we expected , and served by a girl friendlier than we could have hoped for . |
| 16 | But in 1983–7 the real ( volume ) increase in funds first fell to zero , then fell absolutely , then rose at a rate lower than 1 per cent — that is less than the increasing trend to an ageing population required to sustain standards ( Kings Fund Institute , 1988 ; Owens and Glennerster , 1990 ) . |
| 17 | But other schemes are less contentious : partly because the extra money gained from child benefits and other payments which favour lone parents is less than the extra money lone parents gain when the whole household is living on supplementary benefit ; and partly because the public tolerates laxer or more generous administration in other schemes than it is prepared to tolerate when it comes to means-tested benefits for the poor . |
| 18 | France , however , has gone some way to showing that a judicious space programme — based on modest goals and less than the highest technology of the era — need not be excessively costly . |
| 19 | Weight for weight , this is still quite respectable , as compared with steel , but it is of course much less than the tensile strength . |
| 20 | Miss Marple is , in fact ( quiet-mannered village pussy though she was ) , an example of nothing less than the Great Detective . |
| 21 | If the used space is significantly less than the allocated space for a particular file , the space may be reclaimed by use of the CONVERT utility although this does not apply to the DC transactions file and the QA transactions file ( DCSTAT.FIL and QAPACK.FIL in the example configuration ) . |
| 22 | The price at which a participant may acquire ordinary shares in the Company ( ‘ shares ’ ) on the exercise of an option shall be determined by the Directors but shall not be less than the middle market quotation of a share as derived from the London Stock Exchange Daily Official List for the last dealing day before eligible employees are invited to apply for options ( or , if higher , the nominal value of a share ) , or , if certain specified conditions are satisfied , 85% of such figure ( ‘ Discounted Options ’ ) . |
| 23 | A number of those on income support will find that the compensatory payments to cover their 20 per cent poll tax contribution will be less than the actual contribution they have to make . |
| 24 | But then all shopkeepers had to do was ring up less than the actual transaction … |
| 25 | If , on the other hand , the estimates are always equal to or less than the actual cost for a path , as in Fig. 8.2. , then even if the algorithm initially takes the wrong path , its actual cost will be worse than the other , optimistically estimated paths . |
| 26 | In Figure 8.2 the algorithm will initially take the leftmost path but will then backtrack and eventually take the correct , rightmost path , because the estimate for the rightmost path is less than the actual cost of any other path . |
| 27 | In this sense a stability test is never finished in less than the actual shelf-life of the product . |
| 28 | It means that the compass shows less than the actual amount of turn . |
| 29 | Although some may be quick to say that the vast majority of the book was actually written by Bullett , and not by Freud , no less than the actual intellectual framework of the book apparently seems to have been due to Freud 's input , er , Freud certainly was psychoanalytically trained , in any , in any sense of the word . |
| 30 | Firstly , most of the competing hypotheses scored sufficiently less than the correct hypothesis and so could be eliminated by forwards pruning from the search on acoustic grounds ( see Fig. 9.2 , point B ) , thus preventing the growth of an increasingly large band of hypotheses . |