Example sentences of "worth [adj] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hitch was on top throughout and was probably worth better than the two-round winning margin given to him by Darlington referee Arnold Bryson . |
| 2 | I 've seen a bandage worth less than a penny and an inspector , he 'd go in and find one missing . |
| 3 | Thus , the value of the firm is equal to the total value of its expected future stream of cash flows , discounted to take account of the ‘ time value of money ’ ( ’ a pound tomorrow is worth less than a pound today ’ ) and risk . |
| 4 | Valuable metal , plastic , cardboard , rubber , energy go in at one end ; Trabant cars worth less than the sum of these parts emerge at the other . |
| 5 | If you genuinely think that the property is worth less than the asking price , then make a lower offer . |
| 6 | Since these two tend to go hand in hand , anyone whose home is worth less than the mortgage on it , would welcome a little inflation . |
| 7 | The application for an export licence was withdrawn as each leaf was now worth less than the limit of £35,000 , beyond which an export licence is required . |
| 8 | And how much closer to home can one get than the revelation that one in five houses bought in the past five years is now worth less than the mortgage on it , an unhappy phenomenon known as ‘ negative equity ’ . |
| 9 | The only evidence as to the value of Caliban was that it was worth less than the $2.5m. in fact paid . |
| 10 | To hold the contrary , it has been well said , seems to assert ‘ that a bird in the hand is worth less than the same bird in the bush . ’ |
| 11 | None of your navel-lint , tit-licking pen-fuckers so infatuated with the twitchings of the ego they remain sublimely indifferent to the obscene fact that their words are worth less than the flies tormenting the eyelids of an African child . |
| 12 | This is less important than in a share sale where the difficulty of the purchaser , without an express damage statement , is to show that the shares are worth less than the purchaser paid for them , as a reduction in the assets or increase in the liabilities does not necessarily reduce the price of the shares . |
| 13 | They now live in a house worth less than the money they owe to the bank . |
| 14 | Recall from Chapter 12 that an allowance has to be made for the fact that a given sum of money to be received in the future is worth less than the same sum received now . |
| 15 | The sculpture of Medardo Rosso is also worth more than a passing glance . |
| 16 | But when , as his friend and director Mike Nichols asserts , an actor has inscribed upon popular history a character who has influenced the modern male personality , as did Henry Fonda , James Cagney , Spencer Tracy and Humphrey Bogart , his personal idiosyncrasies are worth more than a cursory glance . |
| 17 | ‘ She 's worth more than a shepherd . ’ |
| 18 | The Kaduna-based Hausa language newspaper Gaskiya ta fi Kwabo ( ‘ The Truth is Worth More than a Penny ’ ) , took this allegation further by quoting from a leading Kaduna State politician : |
| 19 | Try not to get pushed into this — your health is worth more than a few extra quid . |
| 20 | Hence , a pound paid out is worth more than a pound retained and reinvested . |
| 21 | A lecturer at a further education college has won a grant worth more than a third of a million pounds to study volcanos . |
| 22 | Kelly said : ‘ It 's not right that the end of year events are worth more than the early season classics just because the interest has got to be maintained to the finish . ’ |
| 23 | In the context of hospitality and friendship , little and often is worth more than the grandest of annual social jamborees . |
| 24 | It is not the fact that a coin is often worth more than the value of the bullion it contains . |
| 25 | You are worth more than the birds ! |
| 26 | The most casual obscenities , the most hackneyed endearments , coming to me from your rose-red lips , are worth more than the sagest advice of all the old men in the world . |
| 27 | Surely polymeric surfactants , which are becoming increasingly important as dispersing agents , are worth more than the three pages devoted to them here . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | However he also meant everyone to realise that the ‘ new thing ’ was worth more than the ‘ lost lore ’ . |
| 30 | But the new property must not be worth more than the old one . |