Example sentences of "it [verb] greater [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This approach is helpful if you have a tendency to compete with others and view them as a threat ; it encourages greater understanding between people and appeals to shared aspirations . |
| 2 | Political anti-semitism attracted mass support for the BUF in a limited geographical area , but it engendered greater hostility within those same localities and had appalling consequences elsewhere . |
| 3 | Despite liberal panic over this new agenda , it represents greater possibilities for the re-examination and re-presentation of disabled people . |
| 4 | A notice is preferable as it imposes greater protection than a caution ( which can be warned off ) but requires the consent of the landlord as the land certificate will need to be placed on deposit for the purpose of registration . |
| 5 | The chief advantage is that it offers greater protection against predators . |
| 6 | This form of collaboration is said to have several advantages in that it offers greater control over research and development linkage by better managing the interface between public sector research and industry . |
| 7 | Iron was used for the shank as it provided greater strength and longer life than bronze would have done . |
| 8 | It has greater power in certain areas than the House of Representatives , for example the Senate can vet all major presidential appointments to the executive and the judiciary and must concur in any treaties negotiated by the President . |
| 9 | Quality : If a firm makes a component rather than buys it from an external party it has greater control over the quality of the component . |
| 10 | More controversially , it proposed greater flexibility in the allocation of Ministry grant-aid to Responsible Bodies . |
| 11 | There are several reasons why it received greater emphasis as the years went by . |
| 12 | Modularising is good if it allows greater choice for students , and allows them to specialise in certain parts of a rather falsely unified subject . |
| 13 | It should be realized that this change of tactics in the gilt-edged market is consistent with the objective of greater competitiveness since it allowed greater freedom for market forces to determine prices , and therefore yields , on government stock and close substitutes . |
| 14 | The change in v 1 was , on average , relatively greater than the change in P immediately after the tetanus , but it showed greater decrement over time . |
| 15 | Poor land means less reward for more work , more risk of disappointment and failure , and it requires greater skill . |
| 16 | If one had reason to contribute only a little to the scheme this might show that the scheme is unjustifiable since it requires greater sacrifice than can be justified . |
| 17 | IBM moved towards sales rather than renting ; it placed greater emphasis on software ; it invested massively in automated factories . |
| 18 | And , because there is a minimum of moving parts , it ensures greater reliability . |
| 19 | Part of the idea may have been a selfish desire to limit citizenship to as few people as possible , now that it brought greater material advantages . |
| 20 | Until after Philip 's death in 1746 it was still an administrative and not a policy-making body ; but in the second half of the century it acquired greater power and independence . |
| 21 | It means greater consciousness of the quality of pupil experience . |
| 22 | ‘ I do not like the law change because it puts greater pressure on referees , who now have more power than ever . |
| 23 | It introduced greater control over the advanced further education pool ( known as ‘ capping ’ ) . |
| 24 | It introduced greater facilities for synthesis , and the Areas Table appeared for the first time . |
| 25 | For example , management may be buying a specific business out of a larger group of companies because they perceive it to have greater value as a single concern than its ( often ) discounted value as part of the vendor 's group . |
| 26 | It gives greater protection to consumers than to other contractors . |
| 27 | We have adopted it because it gives greater strength and dignity and fullness to the design . |
| 28 | It had greater success in the year 1912 which followed , but the writing was on the wall . |
| 29 | The view that the East Ropery Banks site might be considered for ‘ high value ’ housing in order to provide potential consumers for the shopping centre had first been expressed in the Poulson Report of 1965 , but it had greater saliency by 1971 because the authority was already dealing with its second property company ( Town and City ) and it was clear that market conditions made the redevelopment of North Shields centre a highly marginal project . |
| 30 | On the clean sound , reverb really does make a difference , adding as it does greater depth to any guitar 's tone . |