Sentence examples for be less than satisfactory from inspiring English sources

However, on the whole the results appear to be less than satisfactory.

Despite these newer surgical techniques, the long-term outcomes continue to be less than satisfactory.

Antibiotics are given to prevent deep infection; such treatment may require further surgery, prolonged use of intravenous antibiotics, high costs, and outcomes that may be less than satisfactory.

Mr Sellar told Lord Hodge: "What would be less than satisfactory is if matters proceeded, through nobody's fault, but proceeded to such an extent that other bidders walked away leaving one bidder in the form of the Ticketus consortium that could then offer as little as possible".

Inevitably the intuitive understanding of the properties of the chosen materials are incomplete, so that the designed object is likely initially to be less than satisfactory; and trial-and error changes to the materials or to other properties of the object, such as shape, size, color, are undertaken in order to perfect it.

The way in which our patients were being treated with hypertensive agents appears to be less than satisfactory.

It was less than satisfactory".

Her reply was less than satisfactory.

For Hick, it was less than satisfactory.

His collaboration with Ray, in particular, had been less than satisfactory.

For such a perfectionist his last competitive chuck must have been less than satisfactory.