Example sentences of "[prep] [det] than [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His coming meant that the radio station could deal with more than news bulletins and official talks . |
| 2 | The answers emphasise that businesses have difficulties with more than bank loans and unpaid debts . |
| 3 | A character with Metallurgy will know of the adulteration , one with Numismatics will know the coins are worth less than face value . |
| 4 | It follows that management 's shares can not be worth more than par value at the date they subscribe . |
| 5 | If your qualifications are not from the UK , or if you have studied in the UK for less than threee years by the start of the academic year for which you are applying , you are considered an overseas student for the purpose of entrance . |
| 6 | Many , particularly from The Times and Sunday Times , had been on the papers in Gray 's Inn Road and Printing House Square all their working lives , and for most of them the strike was about more than trade-union principles . |
| 7 | If the technology is used for more than word processing then lawyers will certainly need to be trained . |
| 8 | My idea of a truth-and-justice lone avenger never appears in less than platoon strength , preferably nuclear-armed . |
| 9 | The effects ranged from the hilarity and confusion produced by laughing gas ( nitrous oxide in less than anaesthetic doses ) to a simple diminution of the sense of pain by fever-reducing drugs of the coal-tar dyestuffs industry ( see Chapter 2 ) . |
| 10 | It was abandoned when the new church was built in 1909 and in less than severity years has fallen into complete ruin — a good indication of how severe the Dales weather can be and how quickly buildings succumb to its assault . |
| 11 | ‘ Collusion ’ should , certainly for antitrust purposes , refer to a form of conduct , not the value of an outcome : collusive behaviour might well result in less than monopoly profits . |
| 12 | Human figures vary in size from more than life size down to only 3 or 4 centimetres in the so-called Miniature Frescoes . |
| 13 | Sir Edward Bailey 's lucid explanation of these deposits was that the boulders ( up to more than loo feet long ) fell from a submarine fault scarp , probably triggered by earthquakes which also produced the clastic dykes that are a feature of the sections . |
| 14 | Race goers are advised not to buy a ticket offered at less than face value , while anyone who 's concerned about a ticket they 've already bought should get in touch with the course . |
| 15 | In the second case , however , compulsory acquisition at less than market price involves an actual loss since the owner is not only deprived of his property but is also compensated at a price which might be less than he paid for it and would almost certainly be insufficient to purchase a similar parcel of land in the open market . |
| 16 | The department may be involved separately in approving particularly large schemes or where projects involve UDCs disposing of land at less than market values . |
| 17 | so erm , in , in some sense , it is with the Secretary of State 's consent , erm , the land was conveyed back at less than market value as it stood , but erm , er , and I guess there are a variety of views on that particular er , aspect of the situation . |
| 18 | The Prussians could not industrialise the east because local commerce did not generate profits large enough to finance industrial investment , and because local agriculture could not support the bulk of the population at more than subsistence level . |