Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [det] than the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I think they can make a much more plausible case for this than the invasion of Grenada [ in 1983 ] or the Dominican Republic in the Sixties , ’ said an American university law professor , Mr Robert Goldman . |
2 | There are plenty of dealers who can offer you a computer for less than the price of a Dell , Elonex or a Dan ; but will the support be as good ? |
3 | 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 . |
4 | nothing in this Condition shall limit the liability of the Carrier to less than the sum of £10 ; |
5 | You feel him imagining himself as the last rock of culture and civilization being swept over by a wave of barbarism and Jews ( communism and commercialism ) , the saviour of more than the Constitution , the saviour of all that has been culture , the snob of the West . |
6 | Every year we buy his work for more than the year before and every year we sell for more than the year before 1991 being no exception . |
7 | Many people whose films have been lost have taken the processors to court , winning compensation for more than the cost of the film . |
8 | That will certainly mean a slightly smaller , lighter car with an engine of less than the present 6.75 litres . |
9 | A FAMILY of four can enjoy a healthy diet for less than the Government 's estimated £10 a person a week , according to a new recipe booklet from The Sugar Bureau . |
10 | The essential reason for obeying the sovereign power was that keeping it in power was inevitably better for the security of each than the chaos of civil war , or a society without government . |
11 | He noted that the government commission which he had established to investigate the Parys affair had paid more attention to this than the commission later appointed at Walesa 's request [ see p. 38881 ] . |
12 | gon na take forty five percent of our business at less than the cost to do the job , that do n't make good business sense . |
13 | He sank down , head awhirl with more than the knock . |
14 | The probability is low for it to move a long distance at more than the speed of light , but it can go faster than light for just far enough to get out of the black hole , and then go slower than light . |
15 | If you can do business each week for less than the price of a TV licence , the government has a deal for you . |
16 | With regard to the need for direct and close contact , I do not think that we could have had a clearer example of that than the visit of President Yeltsin and the very straight talking between my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister and the president . |
17 | ‘ Perhaps it was the Friar , ’ the thin man said , scarcely less alarmed by the thought of this than the thought of the unspecified ‘ they ’ . |
18 | Equally , the court can not normally order the grant of a new tenancy of more than the holding . |
19 | Just as the new conceptual artists have more passion than they were at first credited with , so many of the new painters amount to more than the sum of their supposed influences . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | Here the commission could dispose of land at less than the market price . |
22 | The Secretary of State may not increase the NNDR from year to year by more than the increase in the Retail Price Index . |
23 | As we announced in the Budget , no one 's Uniform Business rate will go up this year by more than the rate of inflation — 4.1 per cent . |
24 | They now live in a house worth less than the money they owe to the bank . |
25 | Microsoft 's latest scheme to increase its market share in the Macintosh software arena is a trade-in deal which nets a customer the four Microsoft applications which make up the integrated Microsoft Office pack for less than the price of just one of those applications . |
26 | Indeed it is easier to persuade the clerks in the education office of this than the teaching staff in schools . |
27 | In Scotland the rise in the number of long-term unemployed rose by less than the rest of Britain . |
28 | Do you think your collection will increase in value by more than the rate of inflation in the foreseeable future ? |