Example sentences of "greater [noun sg] than [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Far greater teaching than the teaching of all the , the other teachers put together ! |
| 2 | A synergistic effect is defined as two substances coming together to create a greater effect than the sum of the two could achieve separately . |
| 3 | Gwynn Jones received many other honours but none gave him greater pleasure than the publication of a selection of his poems , Detholiad o Ganiadau , by the Gregynog Press in 1926 , and the de luxe edition , issued in 1932–7 by Hughes & Son , Wrexham , of six volumes of selected poems and essays . |
| 4 | Maybe we think that when we get to heaven , Paul and the other pioneers of the New Testament will have positions of greater honour than the members of St Leonard 's in 1992 . |
| 5 | The autistic child may have any of these abilities to a considerably greater degree than a child of higher or even very high intelligence . |
| 6 | These disturbing images — convoys of refugees , unsanitary tent encampments — were initially refracted because Lebanon had itself vainly assisted the ridiculous ‘ Arab Liberation Army ’ in its war against the new Israeli state ; for the Lebanese , their own military failure was of greater moment than the fate of those whom they were supposed to be saving . |
| 7 | Of even greater importance than the settlement of the Breton succession or the defeat of Charles of Navarre was Charles V 's skilful and successful handling of the question of the Flemish succession . |
| 8 | Through this ‘ echolocation' ’ system a dolphin builds up an acoustic picture of its surroundings , and can hunt its prey over a much greater distance than the limits of visibility in the water . |
| 9 | Thus did T'sao rid himself of the most able man in his enemies ' camp for no greater price than the life of a condemned man . |
| 10 | Thus Northern Ireland enjoyed the same standard of services and endured no greater taxation than the rest of the UK . |
| 11 | The left suffered further defeats including the rejection of its attempt to make the reduction of unemployment a greater priority than the control of inflation . |
| 12 | The defence of honest belief that a girl is over 16 is likely to have a far greater impact than the defence of honest belief in consent in the context of rape . |
| 13 | It occupies a long trench caused by a geological fault and is over a thousand feet deep , a much greater depth than the sea into which it debouches . |
| 14 | A plea of honest belief that a girl is above 16 is thus far more likely to be pleaded and with far greater success than a plea of honest belief in consent on a rape charge . |
| 15 | Of greater significance than the numbers of schools established in 1850 to 1860 is the fact that some of them were founded for the express purpose of teaching deaf children through the Oral System . |
| 16 | One way the model was altered was to assume that the mantle part of the lithosphere stretches by a greater amount than the crust during extension ( Fig. 4.17(B) ) . |
| 17 | The tows then form the tube around a bullet or mandrel in the heated die , and the result is a tube of greater strength than the equivalent in steel ! |
| 18 | Might I suggest that young George should use his opportunity to put his expensive university education towards a greater purpose than the expansion of his wallet . |
| 19 | He was a soldier and no war could bring greater prestige than the war against the Saracens , the war in the Holy Land , the emotional centre of the Christian world . |
| 20 | The type of laboratory study , frequently used in the social psychological study of attitudes , may have the benefit of greater precision than the use of historical examples . |
| 21 | A far greater problem than the journey from Rome to Verona and back was our plan to get married — which I was gradually getting used to . |
| 22 | The improvement in signalling methods which Kempenfelt and others brought about in the British navy in the last decades of the century was a greater contribution than the idea of ‘ breaking the enemy 's line ’ to the defeat of Napoleon . |
| 23 | Was the hazardous code of the duel a greater injustice than the unfairness of the law ? |
| 24 | To a greater extent than a human in a similar gathering each rabbit , as he pursued his own fragment , was sensitive to the trend of the whole . |
| 25 | The fact that those practices which became fundholders had a history of referring patients across district boundaries to a greater extent than the controls in our study may provide an indication of their motivation for joining the scheme . |
| 26 | Although they are employed to a much greater extent than the rest of the percussion , it must be realized that their effectiveness largely depends on a sparing use of them . |
| 27 | As these figures suggest , councillors are predominantly male , middle-aged , and middle-class to a far greater extent than the population as a whole . |
| 28 | Hitler 's Germany dominated Europe diplomatically , in 1938 , as never before ; this was probably due to the continued fear of Communism by most European States , to a greater extent than the fear of Hitler 's Nationalism . |
| 29 | The long-term effect on the student and his/her ability to obtain information , is , however , of much greater interest than the measurement of short-term skills with regard to the use of specific bibliographic tools . |
| 30 | I think that that is an absolutely disgusting thing to say , to appear to make voyeurism a greater sin than the murder of my son , ’ he said . |