Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] than the [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed it is easier to persuade the clerks in the education office of this than the teaching staff in schools . |
| 2 | If you genuinely think that the property is worth less than the asking price , then make a lower offer . |
| 3 | And make sure your insurance company knows about any specific items , like valuable antiques , that are worth more than the insurance limit they may have set . |
| 4 | Robin Launders , Manchester United 's finance director , told ACCOUNTANCY that the company thought it appropriate to disclose the value attributed to players in the directors ' report in a similar way to the publication of information when properties were worth more than the balance sheet value . |
| 5 | The idea is that the bidder must think that the shares in the company are worth more than the bid price , for example , because under the bidder 's control the company will be operated more efficiently , otherwise the bid would not be made . |
| 6 | While it is now thought that they are interested in offloading part or all of this holding , it seems that they are not prepared to sell for less than the purchasing price of £1.20 . |
| 7 | It was held that since the dealer had sold the car for more than the price Mr. Wright had agreed to pay , he had suffered no damages at all . |
| 8 | It is quite obvious now that if there was more to Monica 's missing Wimbledon in 1991 than the shin splints that were eventually given as the reason , she is not going to tell us . |
| 9 | However the executive staff could receive changed instructions from the Council acting collectively , which amounts to more than the member States acting collectively through their delegates . |
| 10 | I heard him scramble to his feet and his metal-tipped boots took him down the stone corridor at better than the track record . |
| 11 | Static or declining firms are likely to be valued at less than the book value of their assets , while rapidly growing firms can be priced at many times the book value of their assets , reflecting the fact that growth adds value to the initial investment outlay . |
| 12 | Here the commission could dispose of land at less than the market price . |
| 13 | The draftsman should ensure that any licence fee or sub-rent is taken into account in the calculation of the tenant 's turnover ; indeed , he may think it appropriate to cover the contingency that the tenant grants a licence of part of the demised property at less than the market rate . |
| 14 | The M.T.A. by its constitution had a power to put on a stop list the name of a member or person who infringed its rule forbidding the sale of articles at other than the list prices relevant thereto unless such person should pay to the Association a fine within limits to be laid down by the Council of the Association . |
| 15 | To return to our primeval replicators , while most miscopyings probably resulted in diminished copying effectiveness , or total loss of the self-copying property , a few might actually have turned out to be better at self-replication than the parent replicator that gave rise to them . |
| 16 | The devaluation of the inti for the month of October was restricted to 6 per cent overall ; exporters were to receive 10 per cent of the value of their exports in foreign currency and 45 per cent in freely redeemable US dollar certificates , while the remaining 45 per cent would be paid in intis at the single exchange market rate ; import restrictions were eased ; to protect the silver sector against the continuing slump in prices since 1989 on the world market , the Central Reserve Bank was to buy silver at 5 per cent over the current market price ; fuel prices would rise by only 5 per cent in October , and public utility rates by less than the percentage rise in salaries , which themselves would be increased in accordance with inflation . |
| 17 | Some have therefore concluded that such a tax deduction system would increase the flow of revenue to charities by more than the tax loss and hence produce an increase in social service provision . |