Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [det] than the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The function includes part of the competitive labour supply function , i.e. that segment of L s above and to the right of point B , but renders inoperative the remaining part , i.e. that segment of L s below and to the left of point B. Workers who are willing to work at less than the wage stipulated by trades unions ( w 1 in Figure 5.1 ) will be excluded from active participation in the labour market for as long as these powerful combinations maintain their stranglehold as monopoly suppliers of labour . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Those obligations will include : ( 1 ) a covenant to try his best to keep the scheme fully let ; ( 2 ) a covenant not to let at less than the market rent obtainable at the date of the letting ; ( 3 ) a covenant not to grant rent free periods or concessionary rent periods without the landlord 's consent ; ( 4 ) a covenant not to sublet except in defined subletting units ; ( 5 ) a covenant not to waive or commute any rental payments under subleases ; ( 6 ) a covenant not to accept any surrender of any sublease without the landlord 's consent ; ( 7 ) a covenant to enforce subtenants ' covenants in subleases ; ( 8 ) a covenant not to permit any sub-underletting of a sub-let part . |
| 4 | He can , of course , also make a payment into court , but the difficulties of calculating it are obvious and he would probably have to pay in more than the value of the claim for immediate damages to tempt the plaintiff . |
| 5 | The positive K factor was intended to allow water prices to rise by more than the rate of inflation , in order to help finance a £18.65 billion investment programme over ten years . |