Example sentences of "[vb base] [adj -er] than the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No investment having a DCF yield lower than the company 's cost of capital would normally be accepted . |
| 2 | No investment having a DCF yield lower than the company 's cost of capital would normally be accepted . |
| 3 | Given the higher risk associated with equity , a positive yield gap ( i.e. with earnings yield greater than the bond yield ) would be expected . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Unlike the Japanese martial art of karate , kung fu employs very few kicks , and those that are used rarely go higher than the waist . |
| 7 | If the target word in the position had a recognition score lower than the threshold then it was omitted . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | However , these traditional role expectations prove weaker than the pressure of the other goals and practical constraints , and so the gender role is modified . |
| 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 . |
| 11 | We are nature 's unique experiment to make the rational intelligence prove sounder than the reflex . |