Example sentences of "[adv] great than [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the structure is not a single crystal , the sizes found vary from somewhat greater than a crystallite to diameters of a few millimetres . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Subscriptions and students ' fees were not adequate to provide a properly staffed establishment , and the choice made of this method of financing the College , in preference to direct government funding ( which would have had to be much greater than the government grants received from 1795 to 1813 ) was to hamper the growth of the College well into the present century . |
| 5 | ‘ The number of closures is much greater than the Government believes it to be . |
| 6 | I 'm erm I 've been working in low cost housing , housing charities , for a very long time , with Shelter and various other charities like that , and I never cease to be amazed that the Conservative Group , here or nationally , are hostile to subsidies for council housing , because the subsidy which goes to owner-occupiers , through mortgage tax relief , is very much greater than the subsidy that goes to council housing and there 's nothing we as a Council can do about this , but I do hope that in due course we will get a fair system of subsidising houses for everybody , so that wealthy people on high incomes who are getting a big subsidy on their housing through their tax relief , erm are not getting more than people on low incomes living in council houses . |
| 7 | As a result , my telephone and fax bill is much greater than the bill for board and lodging . |
| 8 | Subsequent to this there is an amplified second phase of neutrophil chemotaxis which is much greater than the original . |
| 9 | Because of this prolonged infectious period , the woman 's contribution to the infected population is potentially much greater than the man 's . |
| 10 | The switch of news focus clearly had some influence on the public 's agenda but a remarkably small one : in terms of television influencing the public 's agenda the cause seemed much greater than the effect . |
| 11 | Small , discrete pieces of information may have little significance in isolation , but when collected together , they can be much greater than the sum of their parts . |
| 12 | A plan consists of time , resources and indicated action but the whole is much greater than the sum of the parts . |
| 13 | The high value of E/G in some materials such as carbon-fibre composites , highly oriented polymers or certain copolymers may mean that the decay length — is much greater than the length of the standard specimen . |
| 14 | It is tragic that this tradition has ended , because the joy of making music is so much greater than the joy of just listening . |
| 15 | Buyers on their part will make similar calculations ; and if at any time the price should rise considerably above 36s. they will argue that the supply will be much greater than the demand at that price : therefore even those of them who would rather pay that price than go unserved , wait ; and by waiting they help to bring the price down . |
| 16 | And because , as we saw in Chapter 1 , the number of different ways of being dead is so much greater than the number of different ways of being alive , the chances are very high that a big random jump in genetic space will end in death . |
| 17 | The load angle defined in Chapter 5 is then negative and the motor produces a braking torque TB ( fl which is generally greater than the pull-out torque . |
| 18 | The vapour mixture is thus proportionately richer in component A. The mole fraction ofA in the vapour is thus greater than the mole fraction of A in the liquid . |
| 19 | Is it thus greater than the sum of the individual parts ? |
| 20 | The odds against assembling a well-designed body that flies as well as a swift , or swims as well as a dolphin , or sees as well as a falcon , in a single blow of luck — single-step selection — are stupendously greater than the number of atoms in the universe , let alone the number of planets ! |
| 21 | One can show that this increase in disorder is always greater than the increase in the order of the memory itself . |
| 22 | The important point to note is that with all discount securities the yield is always greater than the discount rate ; i.e. , from ( 4.10 ) , r > d . |
| 23 | What work of fiction could possibly bring together Toulon , who had a dreadful year , and Biarritz , a side whose parts — including the incomparable Blanco — were always greater than the whole ? |
| 24 | In other words , managers ' salaries have to be made incentive-compatible , so that the penalty for sending a false ‘ good ’ signal is always greater than the penalty for sending a true ‘ bad ’ signal . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The baggy suede jacket over a cashmere jacket , costly jeans and light brogues all bespeak a casual wardrobe allowance which is probably greater than the amount most people spend on a new car . |
| 27 | ACCORDING to the most recent figures available , the number of people coming to live in Northern Ireland is now greater than the number leaving these shores . |
| 28 | Even in the presence of a cold block , pin 2 mRNA levels increase in the unwounded leaf 1 in response to a mechanical wound to the cotyledon , as anticipated , and the increase is substantially greater than the trace increase in level induced by excision of the unwounded cotyledon . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Far greater than the teaching of any great religious leader ! |