Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] less " in BNC.
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| 1 | While , as has been seen , the actual chances of victimisation are less than many people believe , nonetheless , in Granby , for example , three quarters of those interviewed believe there are real Asks for women who go out at night and half said they often or always avoid going out after dark . |
| 2 | Where the Auditors and Purchaser 's Accountants disagree as to the valuation of an item and , where the disputed element of the valuation is less than [ £1,000 ] for an individual item , or the aggregate value of all disputed elements of valuation within the stock and work in progress are less than [ £10,000 ] both parties shall agree to accept the Auditors ' valuation . |
| 3 | For the whole economy the social cost of monopoly power is obtained by adding together the deadweight burden triangles such as ACB for all industries in which marginal cost and marginal revenue are less than price and social marginal benefit . |
| 4 | In each of the East Asian economies there is evidence to suggest that both the level of complexity and the degree of individuation of labour are less than is typically the case in a classical Weberian bureaucracy . |
| 5 | Calculations based on this assumption , however , indicated that any uplift would be confined to the region over which stretching occurs and that no uplift at all would occur if the thickness of the crust were less than about 20 per cent of the thickness of the lithosphere . |
| 6 | There was no compensation by intact genomes , but the decreases in concentration were less than expected based on heteroplasmic levels . |
| 7 | Moreover , it has been established for centuries that even where the threat of violence is less than this , consent will be negatived . |
| 8 | And this was a particularly popular view in the nineteen sixties and you found lots of people arguing that the American system needed reform that here was the president who was hamstrung by congress , or in the er in the er question I 've set in the , in the programme , you know , the president is less Gulliver in Lilliput , you know , as more like Pinocchio in Lilliput erm that the president has enormous responsibilities , that the nation looks to the president , the world looks to the president but the president ca n't do anything and that you need an increase in presidential power . |
| 9 | Interest can continue to be received gross if you certify prior to closure that your total income for the year , including that arising on closure is less than your tax allowance for the year and you are therefore a non-taxpayer . |
| 10 | Be very clear , he wrote : I do not feel that it is time and thought wasted because the end result is less than I had hoped . |
| 11 | But teamed with diesel oil in dual-fuel units , the result is less NOx and particulates plus no performance loss . |
| 12 | When marginal revenue is less than price , profit-maximizing firms no longer set price ( and marginal consumer benefit ) equal to marginal cost . |
| 13 | There are two reasons why society might consider that the social cost of a capital good is less than its private cost . |
| 14 | If society gains more than the private supplier would gain , the social cost of the capital good is less than the market price that a private supplier would have to charge . |
| 15 | The standard answer to suggestions that the judiciary is less than a representative cross-section of society is that the Lord Chancellor can only fashion judges from the timber he finds on the list of QCs . |
| 16 | Although the detent torque is less than the motor torque with one or more windings fully excited , it can be a useful feature in applications where the rotor position must be preserved during a power failure . |
| 17 | There is a part of each step during which the motor torque is less than the load torque , so that the system decelerates . |
| 18 | If the switching angle is not optimised at any operating speed then the motor torque is less than the pull-out torque . |
| 19 | For the work of Sherman this show may only confirm the suspicions already held by many that , with the kind of success she now enjoys after the Saatchi purchase of her notorious nude self-portrait , her intention is less than subversive and takes shrewd advantage of the fruits of sensationalism Saddest of all however is that , within the context of this show , the nightmarish images of her latest offerings succeed better at making the female viewer feel the full impact of the implied degradation . |
| 20 | THE Scottish premiere of a new work is no unusual event but it adds an extra air of intrigue when the piece is less than freshly minted . |
| 21 | The problem of reinfarction after thrombolytic therapy is less than was anticipated . |
| 22 | Another source suggests that welfare expenditure per employee in 1980 was three times greater in large firms ( Steven 1983 p.166 ) but other estimates indicate that the gap is less than half this figure . |
| 23 | Raw linseed may be better on light coloured woods because its darkening effect is less than boiled oil . |
| 24 | Scattering gets more intense as wavelength diminishes , so blue light in the visible spectrum is scattered more than red light because the wavelength of blue light is less than that of red light . |
| 25 | When the demand for labour is less than the labour force , there is a general deficiency of the demand for labour and unemployment rises above the NUP . |
| 26 | Right , and if the slope of that average product curve , right is negative that implies the marginal product of labour is less than it 's average product hence if the slope of the average product curve is zero that implies therefore the marginal product equals the average product of labour . |
| 27 | The effect of the expansion of Zechstein salt section would be to elevate the overlying Bunter Shale such that its depth of burial is less than that which would be expected from its velocity character acquired at greater depth . |
| 28 | This figure is less than half the number of cases reported by one clinic , out of thirty odd , in London for that year . |
| 29 | This figure is less than the average number of new company registrations every month . |
| 30 | The chance of getting infected from a pint of blood is less than 1 in a million . |