Example sentences of "[noun] greater [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both sides have a point : some foxes kill lambs , poultry and game , and some foxes are guilty of no crime greater than the dispatching of mice and earthworms . |
| 2 | During clamps a significant rise in plasma hormone concentration was defined as a concentration greater than the mean of the five baseline ( euglycaemic ) values plus two standard deviations in two or more consecutive samples . |
| 3 | They formed a proportion of new schools greater than the proportion of children they served ( though this may have been because they were more likely to have suffered from bombing in city centres ) . |
| 4 | On the average cost basis , the taxpayer would be treated as receiving a benefit greater than the amount charged to the public . |
| 5 | The revenue has no answer to the anomalies which arise when the cost of providing a loss-making facility means that the average cost basis results in the taxpayer being treated as receiving a sum by way of benefit greater than the cost of buying that benefit on the open market . |
| 6 | An issue greater than the current latest version must be entered otherwise the updated module will be invalid for re-entry into LIFESPAN . |
| 7 | Forty-one per cent of these diabetics had levels of malondialdehyde formation greater than the highest result seen in the control group , and this difference was highly significant ( Betteridge et al , 1981 ) . |
| 8 | And that the distance P X ir greater than the distance R X. |
| 9 | There was a cause for panic greater than the office silence at five o'clock on a Friday afternoon . |
| 10 | Who can say whether the spirit of nature does possess a beauty or an importance greater than the purely physical or rather mechanical objects ? |
| 11 | It can be shown that electrons and ions co-rotating at distances from Jupiter greater than the Keplerian orbit of co-rotation ( section 6.1.1 ) tend to move away from the planet . |
| 12 | unc Volumes greater than a litre are usually left in tens , hundreds or thousands of litres so only this table is needed for most practical purposes . |
| 13 | Are the costs of inflation greater than the costs of curing inflation ? |
| 14 | Hector believes that ‘ She is not worth the holding ’ , and , ‘ T is mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god ’ ; But Troilus counters with the statement : |
| 15 | This proposal has become known as " Saint-Venant 's principle " , often interpreted as implying that local eccentricities of stress are not felt in distances greater than the largest linear dimension of the area over which the forces are distributed . |
| 16 | So Care Kaleidoscope , Caress , The X Factor … what should we call it when a variety of different ingredients are brought together , blended , and receive a release of energy which makes the whole greater than the sum of its parts ? |
| 17 | If a local council exceeds this amount , then the local Council tax will be increased by a factor greater than the excess spending ( i.e. the high spending councils are penalized ) . |
| 18 | This resulted in convection at high Rayleigh number ( Ra10 8 –10 9 ) with turbulent velocities at least two orders of magnitude greater than the settling velocities of the particles . |
| 19 | The greatest cause of redundant data however is the inclusion of the company logo ; this has been known to be as much as an order of magnitude greater than the average model . |
| 20 | Although the loss of sensitivity inherent in grid-referenced PCR needs to be addressed , it is possible that it will not be a major issue ; even patients with chronic hepatitis C , who frequently have low levels of viraemia , generally have circulating levels of virus orders of magnitude greater than the lower limits of detection by PCR , and levels of hepatitis B virus DNA in chronic carriers are orders of magnitude greater still . |
| 21 | Poll tax arrears in Darlington are likely to be £1.8m. greater than the council had allowed for , members heard . |
| 22 | In fact , for the UK the tax structure achieves progressivity ( a marginal tax rate greater than the average tax rate ) by having tax allowances and a wide band of income over which the marginal tax rate is a constant . |
| 23 | In these circumstances it is tempting to look at incorporation so that each partner 's ‘ take ’ from the business in the form of salary is limited to an amount that avoids tax being paid at any rate greater than the basic rate of 25% . |
| 24 | It is not clear at what ( spreading ) radius greater than a bolide 's initial radius the collective bow-shock approximation breaks down . |
| 25 | Proposition Modules ( i.e. , the study of a particular aspect to a depth greater than the other course members ) |
| 26 | We have had wars greater than the wars against Napoleon , fought with more terrible weapons and less mercy , and involving most of the nations of the globe . |
| 27 | when the word has been overlapped with all members of the filter set , take those weak overlap indices with a frequency greater than a certain threshold ( this was set to 1 for the example below ) and append them to the strong overlap list . |
| 28 | Take a railway running at a loss : the average cost of providing concessionary travel would be a sum greater than the fare charged to the public . |
| 29 | Touche Ross thought that the requirement was appropriate in relation to partnerships , but recommended that it should apply only to cheques made out for an amount greater than a specified sum — a suggestion also made by a number of others . |
| 30 | An increase in exports would be particularly beneficial in that the balance of payments would improve and at the same time national income will rise by an amount greater than the initial increase in exports . |