Example sentences of "[be] [adj -er] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But now , in the main , companies are leaner and fitter ; they have pared down their operations in order to survive . |
| 2 | Make sure that the dumb-bell bars are lower than the top of your chest . |
| 3 | They may have to settle for royalties which are lower than they would prefer . |
| 4 | Barclays , whose exposure to Third World debts are lower than most , led the way ahead with a 22p gain to 518p . |
| 5 | Despite recent improvements , unemployment is more than 20% , and real wages are lower than they were in the early 1980s . |
| 6 | Since Germany 's actual and expected rates of inflation are lower than America 's , the gap is even wider in real terms . |
| 7 | European component manufacturing costs are lower than in the States , and we could save the Corporation around a billion dollars a year by purchasin' components from our European plants . |
| 8 | ‘ Present values are lower than they have been for some time , and are sticking . |
| 9 | Despite the sophisticated techniques involved in enhanced recovery of oil and recovery of heavy oil , both investment and production costs are lower than for tar sands , oil shale and for the renewables . |
| 10 | The maximum social security payments for older people living in residential care homes are lower than for younger , physically handicapped people . |
| 11 | Publishers ' discounts are lower than the normal 35% off , and copies sold in the shops or to libraries are usually at the suggested published price . |
| 12 | Also , the fact that police officers will know that female crime rates are lower than male crime rates will further incline them to the view that women are not by nature ‘ criminal types ’ . |
| 13 | Being high up , they know that the temperatures are lower than elsewhere . |
| 14 | This can have advantages where credit restrictions on local banks make foreign currency borrowing the only source of finance available or if interest rates are lower than domestic currency loan rates . |
| 15 | In addition , because HMOs can effectively choose which customers to enrol , there is some suggestion of ‘ cream skimming ’ , ie that HMOs are choosing to enrol customers who are lower than average users of services and have an incentive to discriminate against potentially high users of services ( Petchey , 1987 ) . |
| 16 | These values are lower than the 2–3% reflectance predicted from heating experiments in which the maturity of the sample is estimated after heating ( Snowdon , 1979 ) . |
| 17 | Very low prices ( the retailer makes savings through bulk buying , and overheads are lower than in a central location — part of these savings is passed on to the customer ) |
| 18 | As Ian Jones at the National Institute for Economic and Social Research has pointed out , benefits in the first year of operation are lower than the figures for net effective cost imply . |
| 19 | Instead , some individuals or groups in society will fail to forecast inflation correctly and so may , for example , seek money wage increases which are lower than necessary to maintain their real wages ; other individuals or groups may not have the power to gain full compensation for inflation even if they do predict it correctly . |
| 20 | These speeds are lower than in traditional streets , but they are greater than walking pace and are regarded as still being too high by elderly people and parents of young children . |
| 21 | In fact , £3,976 should be debited to deferred tax , as the accounting profits are lower than the taxable profits . |
| 22 | Credit costs are lower than they would be if they had to provide for more bad or difficult debts . |
| 23 | There must be some schools today where standards are lower than they should be , where there is a lack of order and clear purpose , where children are bored and restless . |
| 24 | This is the major drawback of the postal method , where response rates , usually around 30–40 per cent , are lower than in face-to-face research , which can hope to achieve a 70 or even 80 per cent response . |
| 25 | Even these grim figures are lower than many once feared , thanks to the rally in Japanese shares since early March . |
| 26 | Assuming that average measured Sm/Nd ratios are lower than those of their source regions , the trend for most of the islands suggests that the age of the Nd isotopic heterogeneity is less than 1Gyr . |
| 27 | Mortality rates for lung cancer in those who have always smoked only cigars and pipes are significantly higher than in nonsmokers but are lower than for cigarette only smokers . |
| 28 | The overall disability prevalence rates generated by the OPCS disability survey are lower than those produced by the GHS : 208 per 1000 population aged 16+ compared with 135 per 1000 . |
| 29 | Levels of in-patient hospital admission in Britain are lower than those reported from North America . |
| 30 | Most rates are lower than last year 's levels . |