Example sentences of "[be] [adj] than [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Intergraph Corp , Huntsville , Alabama warns that while it has not yet closed its books for the first quarter , preliminary estimates indicate that turnover will be lower than expected at between $280m and $285m , and that all geographic segments were below expectations for the quarter , and price reductions on older products combined with lower sales volume resulted in reduced gross margins ; the company expects a loss from operations excluding restructuring charges of $8m to $10m or $0.11 to $0.13 per share and restructuring charges and non-operating items during the quarter will increase the losses by an additional three cents a share . |
| 2 | LOTHIAN Region 's council tax will be lower than expected a a result of savings made from a year of spending restraints , it emerged yesterday . |
| 3 | LOTHIAN 's council tax will be lower than expected due to savings made from a year of spending restraints . |
| 4 | The slope of the gravel should be shallower than required |
| 5 | You will be less than gruntled by the following job application , posted in Sammy Dunlop 's Tackle Shop at Ballydown , outside Banbridge . |
| 6 | He simply could n't believe anyone could be less than bowled over by him . |
| 7 | And off-screen , too , he 's had reasons to be less than charmed by life . |
| 8 | Sea level rise " could be less than feared " |
| 9 | The rise in sea levels as a result of global warming may be less than feared , according to a new UN study . |
| 10 | It means the savings expected to follow council reform could be less than suggested — an issue which may become crucial since the Government has been anxious to demonstrate that dismantling the present two-tier council structure would bring meaningful savings . |
| 11 | To lose weight the intake of calories from the diet must be less than required — so that the shortfall is made up by burning off some of the excess weight , which is mainly , fatty tissue deposits . |
| 12 | This ‘ last chance ’ produced ‘ a wonderful change , both in the brightness and cleanliness of Karl ’ , and his supervisor had ‘ the feeling that the chance given to him will be more than repaid ’ . |
| 13 | The memorandum expressed the government 's confidence that the extra costs would be more than covered by the savings they made possible . |
| 14 | This may entail a major upheaval , but it will be more than compensated for later this month . |
| 15 | For anyone who does a lot of knitting , the initial time spent learning how to use the program will be more than compensated for , because once you have saved your work on to disk , the same garment shape and / or stitch pattern can be used time and time again . |
| 16 | Whatever such a literature might lack in technical sophistication will , it is alleged , be more than compensated for by ideological exuberance . |
| 17 | By reducing the tax distortion and increasing the amount of work a lot , lower taxes would be more than compensated by the extra work and incomes to which the tax rates were applied . |
| 18 | Mrs Teresa Jane Strachan , a Newcastle town-planner , said that although the new private hospital building would take away 69 car-parking places , this loss would be more than compensated by the two new Bioplan car parks . |
| 19 | Jebel Ali container volume has increased by over five times since 1988 and general cargo will be more than tripled by the end of 1991 , ’ he said . |
| 20 | The expectation was that the losses sustained by the low cover price would be more than made up by the larger circulation and by advertising . |
| 21 | That 'll mean less business for the animal crematorium — but its owners say that 'll be more than made up for by the increasing number of people who are choosing to have their familly pets cremated . |
| 22 | On the other hand , it is likely to be more than counterbalanced by heightened household poverty within the larger poorer families , and an overall reduction in local-government spending as a large proportion of expenditure will be controlled by central government . |
| 23 | In Scotia , which had not been mentioned as part of the Archbishop Adalbert 's spiritual kingdom , a few members of the Norman party left at short notice , to be more than replaced in the next week or two by friends and kinsmen who wanted their posts . |
| 24 | The horror stories of Eastern Europe can be more than matched from the Third World . |
| 25 | ‘ The short term benefit of certainty in household budgeting can be more than offset by a nasty shock when the rate is revised , ’ said the Abbey , which adds that its research reveals no demand for budget schemes . |
| 26 | There will be increased printing costs and greater use of school facilities ; but these burdens will be more than offset by the extra revenue generated by parent support . |
| 27 | If it did , it would find that temporary gain in speed of advance would be more than offset by eventual loss . |
| 28 | Bekaert concluded that the potential gains in unit costs would be more than offset by losses in terms of lack of focus on customer service needs . |
| 29 | As in the full employment models considered earlier , the direct impact may be more than offset by the indirect , general equilibrium , effects for example , if the demand response is biased towards capital-intensive industries . |
| 30 | The analysis of the preceding paragraphs suggests that there is no theoretical justification for condemning monopoly and/or merger outright , since the ill effects of output restriction could be more than offset by reductions in costs . |