Example sentences of "[vb base] [adj] than the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's estimated that over ten million people now earn less than the Council of Europe 's decency threshold for wages . |
| 2 | You can choose glasses that cost more than the value of your voucher and pay the difference yourself . |
| 3 | For there 's nothing the Scots enjoy more than the scoring of own goals . |
| 4 | The style and method of management matter less than the question of whether the headteacher can collaborate with other schools and is prepared to make adjustments and concessions in the way the school is run in order to allow better pooling of time , staff or other resources . |
| 5 | But there is little doubt in my mind that the future will only go to the large company if that large company is really able to release the energies and the synergies that ought to be a part of the grand design and make more than the sum of the parts . |
| 6 | Yet the utility of those services to the public is out of all proportion greater than the continuation of prescriptions free or at one shilling each would have been . |
| 7 | However , these traditional role expectations prove weaker than the pressure of the other goals and practical constraints , and so the gender role is modified . |
| 8 | Some rankings have more than the approval of the author of a guide , and are attested by other authorities , local or even national . |
| 9 | For obvious reasons the dangers of such malpractice are endemic in policing , and it may be ‘ respectable fears ’ about it which fluctuate more than the extent of abuse . |
| 10 | The principal assumption in this valuation was that the investment return would be 3 per cent per annum compound higher than the rate of earnings increase . |