Example sentences of "greater [subord] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Finally , the appeal to the Privy Council encounters a further hurdle , in the shape of the long-established reluctance of the Board to interfere where the appeal is brought by special leave , except in cases of a serious miscarriage of justice , a reluctance which is even greater where the appeal is concerned with matters of procedure .
2 The sensitivity of a market to changes brought about by acquisitions and mergers is likely to be all the greater where the market itself is stagnant and without perceived prospects of overall growth in consumer demand .
3 The terms should therefore be comprehensible to their intended users , and the desirability of clarity is even greater where the terms are to be used in transactions involving consumers .
4 The approximations I used to derive the emission from black holes should work well when the black hole has a mass greater than a fraction of a gram .
5 Lambourn was never anything greater than a country market .
6 Unemployment is greater than a year ago in every country in EFTA and in every G7 country except the Netherlands .
7 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 .
8 Until 1964 — when there were 4.4 million sets — there was only one channel ( black-and-white ) ; programme hours ( 65 ) were not significantly greater than a decade earlier ( 53 hours in 1953 ) .
9 It is not clear at what ( spreading ) radius greater than a bolide 's initial radius the collective bow-shock approximation breaks down .
10 As the structure is not a single crystal , the sizes found vary from somewhat greater than a crystallite to diameters of a few millimetres .
11 The market opportunities for a flexible hybrid car like the LA301 are likely to be much greater than a battery only vehicle , but in practice such a hybrid car will be driven in zero emission mode for the majority of the time .
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 If the prevailing rate of interest were greater than an individual 's conception of the normal rate , that individual would expect the rate of interest to fall in the near future .
14 All things being equal therefore , the ultimate encashment value of a PEP should be far greater than an endowment plan , and provide the investor with a greater surplus after repaying the mortgage .
15 Given the higher risk associated with equity , a positive yield gap ( i.e. with earnings yield greater than the bond yield ) would be expected .
16 It is argued in [ 110 ] that Euclid 's fifth axiom ( The whole is greater than the part ) was included specifically to eliminate from mathematics the paradoxes ( c. 450 BC ) of the infinite introduced by Zeno
17 The biological effects of α-particles ( high linear energy transfer , LET ) are in general much greater than the effects of β-particles and γ-rays ( low LET ) .
18 The J/44 's RM is 14 per cent greater than the RM of a Swan 44 ( 1,900lb/860kg ) A larger RM allows a boat greater sail carrying power .
19 If you compare this modulus with the typical bulk modulus of a polymer — about 5 GPa — it is clear that the forces opposing extension , whether by bond stretching or bond bending , in any one chain are considerably greater than the forces which hold one chain to the next .
20 In the end , areas were to be selected for three years ( at NUTS Level III ) according to the following conditions : an unemployment rate higher by at least 15 per cent than the EC average during the previous three years , and industrial employment as a percentage of total employment greater than the EC average in every year of the previous fifteen years .
21 Some of the samples taken over the year showed levels of nitrogen dioxide at levels five times greater than the EC guidelines .
22 We may reach a point where the public costs of city life have to be greater than the private .
23 The maximum depth of 230 m is considerably greater than the seas surrounding our shores , and of all British lakes , Loch Ness is second in depth only to Loch Morar , at 310 m .
24 Only when the cameras were rolling was it heart-sinkingly apparent that the physics of inertia , represented by nearly a ton of resting sand , were greater than the physics of motion represented by the four skidding wheels of a Land Rover .
25 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 .
26 As a result total revenues would be lower in the industry in years of good harvest , and when there is a very poor harvest prices rocket through the roof because of the inelastic demand and therefore the change in price is much greater than the change in quantity er .. consumed on on the market .
27 Numbers greater than the range set by Byte 1 will be printed in E format .
28 LaBudde noted that the quantity of non-target species taken during their time aboard was greater than the quantity of squid harvested .
29 They have to believe that there will be an advantage commensurate with or greater than the sacrifice that they are going to make .
30 Just before St Petersburg learned that the sultan had accepted the Treaty of Adrianople , a conference of senior Russian ministers agreed " That the advantages of maintaining the Ottoman Empire in Europe are greater than the difficulties which it presents " .
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