Example sentences of "[vb base] [adj] than the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many industrial buying decisions involve more than the buyer and in some cases the technical specifier , production personnel and finance personnel are involved . |
| 2 | No investment having a DCF yield lower than the company 's cost of capital would normally be accepted . |
| 3 | No investment having a DCF yield lower than the company 's cost of capital would normally be accepted . |
| 4 | If you earn more than the LEL , you pay contributions on all earnings — a big disincentive to raising your hours , and therefore your pay , by that small amount . |
| 5 | It 's estimated that over ten million people now earn less than the Council of Europe 's decency threshold for wages . |
| 6 | You can choose glasses that cost more than the value of your voucher and pay the difference yourself . |
| 7 | Given the higher risk associated with equity , a positive yield gap ( i.e. with earnings yield greater than the bond yield ) would be expected . |
| 8 | Some of the palm trees look taller than the elm trees in ‘ our ’ wood , and they rise sheer , with tiny top-knots of palm-leaves at the top . |
| 9 | Paradoxically , in some cases photocopies look better than the original because they help smooth out the jagged edges of curves and fill in the gaps between the dots to make the letters look more solid . |
| 10 | A team is a small group ( 6 to 8 people is a typical size ) who co-operate together in such a way that they accomplish more than the sum total of the individuals . |
| 11 | For there 's nothing the Scots enjoy more than the scoring of own goals . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The ladies of our period of whom we know more than the name were almost always ladies of exceptional character or talent , who force themselves on our notice partly at least for this reason . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Unlike the Japanese martial art of karate , kung fu employs very few kicks , and those that are used rarely go higher than the waist . |
| 16 | If the target word in the position had a recognition score lower than the threshold then it was omitted . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | A major problem is that there is no reason why we choose the referents that we do other than the fact that they may be someone we know or whose occupation we have information about . |
| 19 | I wonder if they might have anything do n't know whether they sell other than the time |
| 20 | The need for sleep varies from person to person — some require more than the average eight hours sleep a night be perfectly normal . |
| 21 | However , these traditional role expectations prove weaker than the pressure of the other goals and practical constraints , and so the gender role is modified . |
| 22 | In cases like this , one can not run the risk of having one side of the kite sail stretch more than the other . |
| 23 | However , I am only too aware that falls damage more than the dignity . |
| 24 | Secondly , the marketers of such a financial product often need more than the lifestyle information can provide on its own . |
| 25 | There is surely something very odd about insisting that I need more than the fact that I love cats and hate dogs to decide which to have about the house . |
| 26 | Some rankings have more than the approval of the author of a guide , and are attested by other authorities , local or even national . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | We are nature 's unique experiment to make the rational intelligence prove sounder than the reflex . |