Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [vb mod] be less " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , traders buying sterling with dollars will be prepared to trade in the forward market at a rate that is also less attractive to them when compared with the expected future spot rate ( in this case f t will be less than ) . |
| 2 | Perhaps , now , the renewal premium will be less than the £323.00 quoted in your letter ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In the past a private sector proposal had to demonstrate that funding costs would be less than if it was carried out by the Government . |
| 5 | If it could boot from a network or a CD , disk space would be less of an issue but it ca n't . |
| 6 | Need for Budget tax increases may be less than urgent |
| 7 | I do n't think you 've got that right somehow , there 's no way , that retirement pension will be less than Income Benefit , it 's always a bit more . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But if they are transported in place of a pH-changing anion , then , as the salts of strong acids , they should generate no pH change and the pH o change per uptake current should be less than with Cl - in the cell . |
| 10 | It seems a fair bet that the water companies will be less than enthusiastic about providing the public with evidence that will provide for their own prosecution . |
| 11 | In this case the true productive potential of the UK economy will be less than that implied by official gross or net investment data . |
| 12 | Other price rises will be less than the rate of inflation . |
| 13 | This means that when the star got sufficiently dense , the repulsion caused by the exclusion principle would be less than the attraction of gravity . |
| 14 | Their life expectancy may be less than the national average , and they may be more susceptible to illness and disease . |
| 15 | Other people 's reaction to hearing loss may be less than encouraging , particularly when they are unimaginative and unable to grasp the true facts . |
| 16 | If animals are given Pavlovian conditioning with a compound CS consisting of separable components , the amount of strength gained by one of these components after a given number of training trials will be less than would be acquired if that component had been trained alone . |
| 17 | Thus , for example , the price of a rural railway line should be less than the private marginal cost if society judges it a good thing to protect the living standards of people in remote areas or to foster a sense of national cohesion . |
| 18 | In imagining what it would be like to be fundholders in future we should assume that overall adequacy of funding for health care will be less than we have previously known . |
| 19 | However , the price P C will be less than the firm 's average costs at Q ' ; so it will be making losses . |
| 20 | However , Stephen Jeffery of the country house department of Allen & Harris in Newbury , Berkshire , says conversion costs should be less than that these days . |
| 21 | If the equilibrium rate of output Y e should be less than Y O , then DD unemployment would exist . |