Example sentences of "[pron] [be] greater [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This last month , the Bavarians have been going through the painful experience of learning that , where an historic collection is concerned , it is the whole which is greater than the parts , and no saving of individual items can make up for the erosion of that whole . |
| 2 | In the middle of each step the motor torque is near its maximum value , which is greater than the load torque , and the system accelerates , as shown in Fig. 4.4 . |
| 3 | In deepening the ponds from the traditional 0.5 m to 2.5 m , phytoplankton production occurred to depths of 1.6 m and annual production figures of 8.4 tonnes ha -1 ; were achieved , which is greater than the grain yield of rice for the same period . |
| 4 | which is greater than the estimated cost , .5 , of any of the other paths . |
| 5 | The craze hit England in 1951 , when musicians such as Larry Adler , Steve Race and Humphrey Lyttelton ( the latter emulating a traditional jazz band in his One Man Went To Blow ) attempted to make a whole which was greater than the sum of the parts . |
| 6 | The Paris-based European end of the Software Publishers Association reports that the European market for personal computer software products grew 19% by revenue last year , to $1,700m , which was greater than the 14% increase registered in the US . |
| 7 | To finance the French war effort in 1949 had cost them , in US terms , $500 m. — which was greater than the estimated French budgetary deficit for the year — and had eaten up over two-thirds of the annual total of US aid to France . |
| 8 | Jesus is seen as fulfilling the Old Testament in the sense that he is greater than the Jewish Law . |
| 9 | Over the same period , real wages fell by 18.5 per cent ( in 1970 it was estimated by DEPLAN , the government planning agency , that there was 25 per cent excess capacity in the economy ) , the government deficit increased rapidly until in 1973 it was greater than the revenue of the government , the rate of growth of fixed investment fell dramatically and the balance of payments was in deficit , on both currant and capital account , throughout the whole period . |
| 10 | The surplus of 38 had to be considered because it was greater than the difference , 6 , between Trimble 525 , and Robinson , 519 , and might conceivably have affected the order in which they were to be eliminated . |