Example sentences of "[adj] than [art] sum [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is easy to cope with this in the TRP framework by setting to some large number K ( larger than the sum of the given s will do ) . |
| 2 | The other three preconditions , according to FMCG , are : that the acquiring bank has a proven record of controlling its non-interest expenses ( that is , the costs of computer systems , branches , staff and so forth ) ; that the acquiring bank will be getting a mix of businesses , which , combined sensibly with their own , add up to more than the sum of the parts ; and that the two banks are physically close together . |
| 3 | But there is little doubt in my mind that the future will only go to the large company if that large company is really able to release the energies and the synergies that ought to be a part of the grand design and make more than the sum of the parts . |
| 4 | The views of the local parties were less clearcut — although the National Union itself was no more than the sum of the local party leaders . |
| 5 | It requires an element of direct involvement because of the need for selection and weighing of evidence , but the whole product should be no more than the sum of the parts . |
| 6 | The new union is less than the sum of the other two . |
| 7 | Another significant feature of matter is that the nuclear mass is smaller than the sum of the nucleon masses by the binding energy due to the nuclear force between them . |
| 8 | The acquisition of Palatine will achieve a strategic extension of AW 's brewing interests , and in AW 's view will create a merged entity which is stronger than the sum of the two parts . |
| 9 | In that case the reason the whole has a value other than the sum of the values of its parts , considered as capable of existing unaltered in other wholes , may be that it is a radical mistake to think of them as capable of so doing . |
| 10 | It is also about carrying that image into every other aspect of the political campaign , so that the whole really is greater than the sum of the parts . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Most forms of alternative medicine work harmoniously and synergistically together to produce combined effects which are often greater than the sum of the individual effects attributable to each . |
| 13 | The basic principle underlying the DIY approach is that ‘ the whole is greater than the sum of the parts ’ . |
| 14 | Some have thought that the life of a society can have a value greater than the sum of the values of the lives of the individuals composing it . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Moreover , if two black holes collide and merge to form a single black hole , the area of the event horizon around the resulting black hole is greater than the sum of the areas of the event horizons around the original black holes . |
| 17 | Is it thus greater than the sum of the individual parts ? |
| 18 | A plan consists of time , resources and indicated action but the whole is much greater than the sum of the parts . |
| 19 | It states that the entropy of an isolated system always increases , and that when two systems are joined together , the entropy of the combined system is greater than the sum of the entropies of the individual systems . |
| 20 | Because of the force of analogy , the meaning of the couplet as a whole is greater than the sum of the separate meanings of its two halves . |
| 21 | One of its ideas is that of holism — the whole is greater than the sum of the parts . |