Example sentences of "[noun] be greater [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the upside inflation risks are greater than the downside opportunities . |
| 2 | Where more than two pellet samples are available , for instance for barn owls and tawny owls , the within species similarities observed in bone breakage and digestion are greater than the differences from other species , and this indicates that single pellet collections probably are representative of the species . |
| 3 | Technological advances over recent years have made script input systems more viable , and the improvements in script recognition are greater than the equivalent for speech . |
| 4 | Prey loss is greater when the predator individuals are immature , because of higher degrees of digestion ( see below ) , but it is also greater when the prey species themselves are immature ( Lowe , 1980 ) . |
| 5 | Its overall width is greater than the needs of the twentieth century but it was designed for moving herds of animals , not for the motor car . |
| 6 | When the demand for labour is greater than the labour force , unemployment falls below the NUP . |
| 7 | Let's rewrite that slightly differently and just say l over L open brackets into D T P L over D L minus T P over L , alright , what 's that in economic terms , well that 's simply , right , marginal product of labour in the brackets , right , minus the average product of labour , okay , so if if the marginal product of labour here is greater than the average product right , the righthand side is going to be positive right , therefore , average product is going to be positive okay , the marginal product is greater than the average product ah change the slope of the average product curve is going to be er positive therefore average product itself is positive and rising let's write that down as the marginal product of labour is greater than the average product of labour that implies changing slope of the er average product curve right , is positive implying that average product is positive itself and rising Okay , if the marginal product of labour , right , is less than the average product right , that implies the slope of the average product curve is positive therefore the average product itself , right , is positive and falling sorry right , so we can rewrite that somewhat succinctly , using the following D A P L over D L , right , is greater than equal to or less than zero if D T P L over D L , right , is greater than , equal to , less than right T P L over L the average product . |
| 8 | This figure is greater than the overall sequence divergence between man and the great apes ( 32,33 ) , which suggests that the cluster duplication event occurred before these species diverged . |
| 9 | " The optimism of the action is greater than the pessimism of the thought " is the motto of the scheme , which picks up a precedent tried in Amsterdam in the early 1970s . |
| 10 | No European computer company ranked among the world ‘ top ten ’ in 1986 ; and IBM 's turnover was greater than the aggregate turnover of the next g companies . |
| 11 | However , if sales proceeds are greater than the carrying value , any balance of the tax payable on the gain in excess of the carrying amount would be charged to the p&l account . |
| 12 | The proportion of recipients is greater than the proportion of income they hold except at the ‘ anchor points ’ on the axes . |
| 13 | IBM Corp chairman Louis Gerstner has called a halt to plans to break up the company , the Financial Times claimed yesterday : the paper said Gerstner told a group of executives , ‘ The whole of IBM is greater than the sum of its parts , ’ and put the strategy into reverse ; John Akers had planned to bring outside investors into some of the decentralised IBM units such as AdStar and Pennant Systems , and was planning to sell some of them outright . |
| 14 | The Union between England and Scotland is greater than the sum of its parts , and always has been . |
| 15 | Thus , Bukharin argued , if total unproductive consumption is greater than the total surplus product/value regression is set in motion . |
| 16 | The user should ensure that the module issue is greater than the latest issue in LIFESPAN . |
| 17 | As can be seen from Table 2 , which shows figures from the United Kingdom Family Expenditure Survey of 1986 , the apc has a marked tendency to fall as we move from lower to higher income groups ; also , the apc is greater than the mpc in every case . |
| 18 | Recall that in a boom year , aggregate measured income exceeds aggregate permanent income so that the measured apc is less than the long-run apc , while in a slump year ( where Y < Y p ) the measured apc is greater than the long-run apc . |
| 19 | There are only three solutions : the owners can decide that the pleasure of having a cat in the home is greater than the distress of living with scratched furniture , or some kind of covering that cats hate to scratch has to be put over the sides of the furniture , or the cats have to be trained not to strop the furniture with their claws . |
| 20 | The Daily Mail proudly stated ‘ The Mighty ZETA : Limitless Fuel for Millions of Years ’ , the Daily Telegraph was only slightly more reticent : ‘ Hydrogen power 90 per cent certain ; Energy from sea in twenty years ; Machine will surpass heat of Sun ’ , and on television one scientist said ‘ This discovery is greater than the Russian Sputnik . ’ |
| 21 | In temperate plants , it has been shown that the proportion of two-coloured displays of fruits discovered by birds is greater than that of monocoloured , but that the consumption after discovery is greater when the distinguishing features are ‘ natural ’ , e.g. representing different stages of ripeness , rather than differences due , for example , to artificial painting . |
| 22 | This requirement is greater if the processing involved includes , for example , deciding who will teach a class , when the class will be taught , and to what room the class will be assigned . |
| 23 | So even though the discount rate has not changed from 10 per cent , the holding-period return is greater than the 10 per cent discount rate , but it is less than the 10.26 per cent yield to maturity calculated using ( 4.10 ) . |
| 24 | For an interface where the transverse velocity in the solid is greater than CL , the velocity of the bulk wave in the fluid , the refracted angles are greater than the incident angles . |
| 25 | A new study by the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board ( PMPRB ) found that 56 per cent of the introductory prices of 124 new drugs in Canada were greater than the corresponding median international prices . |
| 26 | In the comparator if the input potential difference is greater than the derived potential difference by any appreciable amount , the output is driven into negative saturation , that is , . |
| 27 | If this time period is greater than the input pulse width , the motor is driven in one direction whilst if it is less than the input pulse width , the motor is driven in the opposite direction . |
| 28 | Let's rewrite that slightly differently and just say l over L open brackets into D T P L over D L minus T P over L , alright , what 's that in economic terms , well that 's simply , right , marginal product of labour in the brackets , right , minus the average product of labour , okay , so if if the marginal product of labour here is greater than the average product right , the righthand side is going to be positive right , therefore , average product is going to be positive okay , the marginal product is greater than the average product ah change the slope of the average product curve is going to be er positive therefore average product itself is positive and rising let's write that down as the marginal product of labour is greater than the average product of labour that implies changing slope of the er average product curve right , is positive implying that average product is positive itself and rising Okay , if the marginal product of labour , right , is less than the average product right , that implies the slope of the average product curve is positive therefore the average product itself , right , is positive and falling sorry right , so we can rewrite that somewhat succinctly , using the following D A P L over D L , right , is greater than equal to or less than zero if D T P L over D L , right , is greater than , equal to , less than right T P L over L the average product . |
| 29 | Certainly , within time , group equilibrium or balance will return , but there are many occasions when the cost of the group 's disequilibrium is greater than the cost of not removing that member . |
| 30 | In their planning they retain the large central school-room , but the provision of classrooms is greater than the norm established by the church schools . |