Example sentences of "[is] [prep] [adj] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | It 's a sell-out and in Gloucester a ticket to the match is worth more than gold . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 : |
| 6 | 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 . |