Example sentences of "[be] great [subord] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover that growth has been greatest where the decline in manufacturing employment has been least — that is , in the regions of ‘ the south ’ . |
| 2 | Work by Bagnold has shown that the pressures are greatest when the pocket of trapped air is thinnest and that when the dimension of the pocket at right angles to the cliff reaches half that of the depth of the pocket the pressure is negligible . |
| 3 | Some theoretical work , however , has questioned the importance of water freezing in sealed cracks and the frequency of freezing events , suggesting instead that crack growth will be greatest when the temperature ranges from approximately to -15°C . |
| 4 | ‘ It 'll be great if the rain keeps off , ’ Rose said . |
| 5 | Even though scale requirements have come down and thus open up new possibilities in small markets , the gains will not be great until the assembly plants are backed by world-class support structures . |
| 6 | The acceptance criterion for this method is that , to be approved , a project 's IRR should be greater than the opportunity cost of capital . |
| 7 | We may reach a point where the public costs of city life have to be greater than the private . |
| 8 | Carers are likely to be looking after a dying loved one for the first time in their life ; their anxieties may be greater than the patient 's . |
| 9 | In addition , the signal has to be correlated with observable future events ( e.g. , a ‘ bad ’ signal has to be correlated with future insolvency while a ‘ good ’ signal has to be correlated with future survival ) , and the cost of sending a false ‘ good ’ signal has to be greater than the cost of sending a ‘ true ’ bad signal for the firm as well as the manager . |
| 10 | Answer guide : The cost of employing a scarce resource may be greater than the cost associated with purchasing the resource . |
| 11 | The car park charging scheme will cost £67,000 but the council expects the income from charges to be greater than the cost of setting up the scheme in the first year . |
| 12 | The cause of Northern Ireland must be greater than the individual and it would mean a very unfavourable hearing for many government speakers which would give the wrong impression . |
| 13 | The accuracy of the feedback need not be greater than the discrimination ability of the trainee but equally its value will diminish if it is too approximate . |
| 14 | Gravity gets weaker the farther you are from the star , so the gravitational force on our intrepid astronaut 's feet would always be greater than the force on his head . |
| 15 | ( The surplus could be greater than the number of transferable votes — if , for example , a large proportion of the votes were non-transferable . |
| 16 | The plaintiff 's advisers must therefore bear in mind that the amount that will be notified as having been paid into court will frequently be greater than the amount which the plaintiff is being offered in settlement . |
| 17 | However , Michell reasoned that it would be possible to have a star that was sufficiently massive and sufficiently small in size that its escape velocity would be greater than the velocity of light . |
| 18 | And when two black holes collided and joined together to form a single hole , the area of the horizon of the final hole would be greater than the sum of the areas of the horizons of the original black holes . |
| 19 | Well certainly examinations should only be carried out where er there is a benefit likely to accrue to the patient , and er this should always be greater than the risk from the radiation itself . |
| 20 | The cash value of scientific observations in this context must therefore be based upon subjective experience and can not be greater than the cash value of the latter ; for it is subjective experience that , ultimately , validates our objective scales of energy intensity . |
| 21 | The intrinsic value of an option can not be greater than the premium itself as this situation would provide investors with an instant arbitrage profit . |
| 22 | But the dangers will be greater as the week progresses . |
| 23 | The regression will be greater as the difference becomes significant ; or ( b ) the coefficient of correlation , which expresses the intensity of the relation between the experimental points as follows : ( c ) Exner 's coefficient , which assesses the degree of adjustment of an experimental distribution to fit a theoretical model . |
| 24 | It is felt by the Senior Management Team that the number of pupils achieving a very good standard of work which is reflected in high examination results could , in fact , be greater if the department were prepared to expect more of their pupils . |
| 25 | By and large , the pressures in favour of Standard English will be greater when the language is written , formal and public . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | And if he started boring on about the whole being greater than the sum of its parts , I would interrupt him : " Never mind about that , tell me how it works . " |
| 28 | Hopkinton , Massachusetts-based EMC Corp reported first quarter net profit more than twice what they were in the year-ago period — figures , page five — and says that demand for the Symmetrix 5500 series disk arrays has been greater than the company expected , so that it has had to increase the build plan for the remainder of the year . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |