Example sentences of "[adj] than [art] sum " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole thang is bigger than the sum of its parts , but the parts are pretty tremendous too ; a shimmering funk arrangement , a mordantly witty lyric extolling the virtues of the unashamedly high life ( ‘ Clams on the half-shell/And roller skate , roller skate ’ indeed ! ) and that uncoiling , insinuating bass riff that stopped the world in its tracks . |
| 2 | An organization is bigger than the sum total of its people . |
| 3 | Was it ever anything more homogeneous than the sum total of the systems which were not communism ? |
| 4 | It is easy to cope with this in the TRP framework by setting to some large number K ( larger than the sum of the given s will do ) . |
| 5 | All in all , a pitiful collection , but he was n't so self-deceiving as to believe their relationship had been much more than a sum of those parts . |
| 6 | The other three preconditions , according to FMCG , are : that the acquiring bank has a proven record of controlling its non-interest expenses ( that is , the costs of computer systems , branches , staff and so forth ) ; that the acquiring bank will be getting a mix of businesses , which , combined sensibly with their own , add up to more than the sum of the parts ; and that the two banks are physically close together . |
| 7 | But they do not necessarily conclude that a thing is no more than the sum of its attributes . |
| 8 | Today , helped along by Fitch Benoy 's latest radical interventions , the accretion is happily much more than the sum of its parts . |
| 9 | Possible tests of success in this facet of the changes is whether non-executives are clear about their contribution and whether decisions are more than the sum of executive preferences . |
| 10 | A team is a small group ( 6 to 8 people is a typical size ) who co-operate together in such a way that they accomplish more than the sum total of the individuals . |
| 11 | A team has a mix of people who contribute in different but complementary ways thus achieving synergy , ie the team produces more than the sum of its individuals . |
| 12 | Good learning environments are more than the sum of their parts ; they are exciting , attractive , motivating and challenging for those within them . |
| 13 | Just as the new conceptual artists have more passion than they were at first credited with , so many of the new painters amount to more than the sum of their supposed influences . |
| 14 | Religion therefore is more than just a personal affair and its influence in society is more than the sum of its influences on individuals . |
| 15 | But The Orb are much more than the sum of their parts . |
| 16 | The special and attractive character of the Ortiz collection is that it is not just an assemblage of objects but the coherent vision of a man who believes that the whole is more than the sum of its parts and that the collector is as creative as the artist . |
| 17 | Since these ‘ facts ’ belong to the group as a whole and since the latter is more than the sum of its parts , they have a transcendent reality of their own and can not simply be reduced to the individuals in whose conduct they manifest themselves . |
| 18 | In 1933 its total membership was believed to be about 300 , but the cost of a fund-raising appeal for £25,000 proved to be more than the sum collected and the movement went £800 into debt . |
| 19 | It seems to me that unless you can convince yourself that a grouping of companies adds more than the sum of its parts , there is no raison d'etre for the company at all . |
| 20 | But there is little doubt in my mind that the future will only go to the large company if that large company is really able to release the energies and the synergies that ought to be a part of the grand design and make more than the sum of the parts . |
| 21 | It is no more than the sum of forces — institutions and markets — which determine who is going to produce what goods and services , on what terms and by what combination of the four major factors of production : land , labour , capital and technology . |
| 22 | The views of the local parties were less clearcut — although the National Union itself was no more than the sum of the local party leaders . |
| 23 | Currently , the annual saving is in the region of £5 billion , only slightly more than the sum that the Government gave away in tax cuts to the richest 1 per cent of taxpayers in the 1988 budget . |
| 24 | If you draw a triangle with corners x , y and z , then it says that the length of the side between x and y is no more than the sum of lengths of the other two sides . |
| 25 | It requires an element of direct involvement because of the need for selection and weighing of evidence , but the whole product should be no more than the sum of the parts . |
| 26 | There is the sense here that reason is more than the sum of its parts , and that the serious pursuit of truth can , over time , generate a way of looking at the world and an approach to forming judgements on it that stands over and above any particular truths that may be assimilated on the way . |
| 27 | Such patterns of stress may be so much more damaging than the sum of their separate effects because their co-existence leads to a different attribution of meaning to them on the part of the child . |
| 28 | For most purposes it is enough to know that an enterprise makes losses — that its revenues are less than the sum of its wages , its cost of capital and its cost of material inputs ( raw materials , components , energy and so on ) . |
| 29 | Valuable metal , plastic , cardboard , rubber , energy go in at one end ; Trabant cars worth less than the sum of these parts emerge at the other . |
| 30 | It seems churlish to denigrate a show that offers as much humour and sharp observation as this one , but it is impossible to escape the conclusion that Reflected Glory finally adds up to less than the sum of its parts . |