Example sentences of "[adv] great than [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Small , discrete pieces of information may have little significance in isolation , but when collected together , they can be much greater than the sum of their parts . |
| 2 | A plan consists of time , resources and indicated action but the whole is much greater than the sum of the parts . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It is tragic that this tradition has ended , because the joy of making music is so much greater than the joy of just listening . |
| 5 | And because , as we saw in Chapter 1 , the number of different ways of being dead is so much greater than the number of different ways of being alive , the chances are very high that a big random jump in genetic space will end in death . |
| 6 | Is it thus greater than the sum of the individual parts ? |
| 7 | The odds against assembling a well-designed body that flies as well as a swift , or swims as well as a dolphin , or sees as well as a falcon , in a single blow of luck — single-step selection — are stupendously greater than the number of atoms in the universe , let alone the number of planets ! |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Far greater than the teaching of any great religious leader ! |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The unification of the mind is far greater than the resolving of the dichotomy alone . |
| 12 | The cost transfer necessary would be far greater than the cost of the price subsidy . |
| 13 | But it should be noted in passing that new mortgages for home-buying run at about the same level as the total volume of other types of new credit extended and outstanding mortgage debt is far greater than the total of all other forms of consumer credit put together . |
| 14 | And we see in this little story something far , far greater than the redemption of Elimelech for Ruth and Naomi we see here a picture of your redemption and of my redemption and those three qualifications , how they are met . |
| 15 | While the numbers affected by these disincentives are far greater than the membership of the underclass , the underclass is the most severely affected . |
| 16 | The United Kingdom is far greater than the sum of its parts . |
| 17 | It is important to emphasise that the impact of the Teacher Placement Service is far greater than the sum of teachers taking placement , as evaluative returns and case study evidence consistently point to the experience as a stimulus for change and the development of partnership activities . |
| 18 | Talking to women who have been there , or face the possibility of being sent there , you find that the fear of being put in the specials is far greater than the fear of imprisonment . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Indeed , it has been postulated that the potential effect upon child mortality of raising levels of maternal education may be even greater than the effect of changes in fertility patterns . |
| 22 | The process is one of iteration with a submatrix of p vectors , where p is a little greater than the number of eigenvalues sought , and involves the solution at each step of an eigenproblem of order p only . |
| 23 | It is for this reason that we choose p to be a little greater than the number of eigenvalues sought . |
| 24 | Moreover , if she were to enforce a purely nationalist policy in respect of nuclear matters in Scotland , that could have consequences that she would regret — because the quantity of Scottish fuel reprocessed at Sellafield is vastly greater than the amount of overseas fuel brought to Dounreay . |
| 25 | That proportion is , however , rather greater than the proportion of Scottish National party Members or , for that matter , Labour Members who are here . |
| 26 | The approaches to the education of children with special needs , culminating in the 1981 Education Act , are equally applicable to pupils with defective vision , some of whom will be included among those pupils who are defined as having learning disabilities significantly greater than the majority of their peers , or as having some disability which would prevent them from having their needs fully met without special educational adaptations or modification to their curriculum . |
| 27 | The number of dwellings in Great Britain in 1981 was 21.2 million , considerably greater than the number of households , estimated as 19.5 million ( Social Trends 17 , 1987 , Table 2.2 ; Housing and Construction Statistics 1976–1986 , 1987 , Table 9 ) . |