Example sentences of "great [conj] [det] of a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The need for the council to be able to protect its reputation by an action for libel is , with proper regard to the public interest , at least as great as that of a trading corporation or a trade union . |
| 2 | That she has less strength at work and has more broken time owing to bad health and especially should she be married , domestic duties and that her output is not so great as that of a man . |
| 3 | Some hamlets were dominated by a single manufacturer whose influence was as great as that of a squire in an estate village , but most villages had several warehouses belonging to small manufacturers . |
| 4 | As for commercial reactions , they can be judged by the fact that the capital cost of a first FBR is estimated by the British nuclear industry at between 20 and 30 per cent greater than that of a PWR , and generating costs 20 per cent more . |
| 5 | Before the king 's court , she , her husband and her mother , Adelizia , maintained that the claim of a daughter was greater than that of a nephew . |
| 6 | It is difficult to account for so large a change in terms of a decrease in effective moment of inertia due to a change in the shape of the crust of the star , because for a rotation rate of 30Hz the equilibrium ellipsoid has a moment of inertia only 10 -4 greater than that of a sphere . |
| 7 | Or was it less his personality that accounted for their compliance than his power — a power so much greater than that of a headmaster within the State system ? |
| 8 | The average frequency of occurrence of a source node is greater than that of a target node , and a source node always has more than one target . |
| 9 | In the latter case , if the wife or husband dies without issue the tenant is said to be tenant in tail , ‘ after possibility of issue extinct ’ , and his rights are substantially no greater than those of a tenant for life . |