Example sentences of "greater than [art] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The radial shields are rounded triangular to teardrop shaped , slightly greater than a quarter of the disk diameter in length , distally contiguous except for a row of granules which runs along the suture . |
| 2 | One can show that this increase in disorder is always greater than the increase in the order of the memory itself . |
| 3 | Trivers argues that the chances of selection favouring altruistic behaviour in which individuals dispense a benefit to another greater than the cost of the act will be improved when many potentially altruistic situations arise in the population , when there are repetitive interactions of the same kind within a small group of individuals , and where symmetrical situations favouring the return of benefits are common . |
| 4 | His reasoning was that the productivity of free workers was greater than slave labour if the labourers were offered sufficient inducement through piece-work and high rates for day labour ; the cost of getting the same amount of work done by slaves was greater than the cost of the higher rates offered as an inducement . |
| 5 | If the saving in this direction is greater than the cost of the difference between 4·6 per cent and 0·2 per cent rejects , which are still cheap to produce , the compromise is worth adopting . |
| 6 | If the saving in this direction is greater than the cost of the difference between 4.6 per cent and 0.2 per cent rejects , which are still cheap to produce , the compromise is worth adopting . |
| 7 | The cost transfer necessary would be far greater than the cost of the price subsidy . |
| 8 | " The optimism of the action is greater than the pessimism of the thought " is the motto of the scheme , which picks up a precedent tried in Amsterdam in the early 1970s . |
| 9 | The unification of the mind is far greater than the resolving of the dichotomy alone . |
| 10 | Human language is unique to humans , and although some of the distinctive features of human speech , such as the mimicking of sounds , may be observed in other species , the resemblance between , for instance , the trained gesturing of a chimpanzee and communication via sign language among the human deaf is in some senses no greater than the resemblance between the speech of a parrot and that of its owner . |
| 11 | The reason is that the de Broglie wavelength of a cold atom ( typically 0.2 ) is greater than the scale of the atomic interaction , making the scattering intrinsically quantum-mechanical in nature . |
| 12 | If you prefer the individual icons to be displayed but there is not enough room on screen , remember that the Windows desktop is far greater than the size of the screen . |
| 13 | The increase in the numbers claiming benefit since 1979 , is , as was pointed out in Part I , greater than the whole of the increase in the years up to the election of the first Thatcher Government . |
| 14 | Or , finally , two events are cause and effect if the probability of the second event , given the first event and certain accompanying conditions , is greater than the probability of the second event , given those conditions but not the first event . |
| 15 | ( a ) The value of BIOLM and DIOLM should be equal or greater than the value for the defined number of database buffers . |
| 16 | More important , buyers with 95 per cent loans who may have seen the price of their property slide in recent months could end up with a debt greater than the value of the property . |
| 17 | Over the same period , real wages fell by 18.5 per cent ( in 1970 it was estimated by DEPLAN , the government planning agency , that there was 25 per cent excess capacity in the economy ) , the government deficit increased rapidly until in 1973 it was greater than the revenue of the government , the rate of growth of fixed investment fell dramatically and the balance of payments was in deficit , on both currant and capital account , throughout the whole period . |
| 18 | While the numbers affected by these disincentives are far greater than the membership of the underclass , the underclass is the most severely affected . |
| 19 | The fall potential on this wall is greater than the length of the climbs as well ! |
| 20 | The high value of E/G in some materials such as carbon-fibre composites , highly oriented polymers or certain copolymers may mean that the decay length — is much greater than the length of the standard specimen . |
| 21 | Again there was a problem of lawlessness even greater than the average over the country as a whole , exacerbated by the disorders which had followed the Glyn Dwr revolt . |
| 22 | But there is more to the difficulty than this : the width of the belt of incised meanders in the limestone is often greater than the width of the floodplain in the clay . |
| 23 | ‘ ( a ) the manner in which , and purposes for which , the product has been marketed , its get-up , the use of any mark in relation to the product and any instructions for , or warnings with respect to , doing or refraining from doing anything with or in relation to the product ; ( b ) what might reasonably be expected to be done with or in relation to the product ; and ( c ) the time when the product was supplied by its producer to another ; and nothing in this section shall require a defect to be inferred from the fact alone that the safety of a product which is supplied after that time is greater than the safety of the product in question . ’ |
| 24 | Section 3(2) of CPA 1987 expressly provides for this as follows : and nothing in this section shall require a defect to be inferred from the fact alone that the safety of a product which is supplied after that time is greater than the safety of the product in question . |
| 25 | Thus , government data for England show that almost half of households in England where the head is over 65 lack at least one basic amenity — a figure that is nine times greater than the figure for the whole population . |
| 26 | It is also about carrying that image into every other aspect of the political campaign , so that the whole really is greater than the sum of the parts . |
| 27 | The craze hit England in 1951 , when musicians such as Larry Adler , Steve Race and Humphrey Lyttelton ( the latter emulating a traditional jazz band in his One Man Went To Blow ) attempted to make a whole which was greater than the sum of the parts . |
| 28 | Most forms of alternative medicine work harmoniously and synergistically together to produce combined effects which are often greater than the sum of the individual effects attributable to each . |
| 29 | The basic principle underlying the DIY approach is that ‘ the whole is greater than the sum of the parts ’ . |
| 30 | Some have thought that the life of a society can have a value greater than the sum of the values of the lives of the individuals composing it . |