Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [adj] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Some things are worth more than money . ’ |
| 2 | A character with Metallurgy will know of the adulteration , one with Numismatics will know the coins are worth less than face value . |
| 3 | It follows that management 's shares can not be worth more than par value at the date they subscribe . |
| 4 | Handy accepted the appointment in 1977 as an alternative to joining the church , and his management thinking has always been marked by a belief that companies ought to be about more than performance and profitability . |
| 5 | Discounting is based on the recognition that money received one year hence is worth less than money received today because of the income that could have been earned by investing the capital now . |
| 6 | On their pumping new single , ‘ Gold ’ , which is bizarrely reminiscent of New Order circa 1984 , East 17 go for the sneeringly philosophical angle , insisting that ‘ life is worth more than gold ’ . |
| 7 | It 's a sell-out and in Gloucester a ticket to the match is worth more than gold . |
| 8 | That to me is worth more than silver , for I think much about the state of the land in these strange times , with snow falling in midsummer and the Giants wandering the hills . ’ |
| 9 | The Law of Property Act 1925 provides the basis for forfeiture actions and for relief against forfeiture for both tenants and sub-tenants where the breach is for other than non-payment of rent : |
| 10 | In the case of patient , doctor and dentist , the necessary relations of proportionality can not be found : DOCTOR is to PATIENT as DENTIST is to PATIENT is perhaps a satisfactory proportion , but DOCTOR is to DENTIST as PATIENT is to PATIENT most certainly is not . |
| 11 | 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 . |