Example sentences of "great than [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Now I would say to sa say that that is almost a bit like the story of the boy crying that he did n't have many holidays because he did n't go to school and that because Harrogate 's er unemployment is so low or has been historically so low compared with other areas , a relatively small increase in the number of unemployment has an enormous increase as compared with what it 's been in the past and so the same number of people living in Harrogate who lose their jobs has an impact on the unemployment figures as perceived locally greater than a similar number of people losing their jobs in Leeds or Selby or somewhere else , and so I think to some extent this the rhetoric has outrun the reality on that point . |
| 2 | Precisely what is meant by ‘ any substantial finding of contributory negligence ’ is open to some dispute at present , the view having been expressed by one judge that any contributory negligence greater than a minimal amount , must be substantial and hence prevent any interim payment . |
| 3 | when the word has been overlapped with all members of the filter set , take those weak overlap indices with a frequency greater than a certain threshold ( this was set to 1 for the example below ) and append them to the strong overlap list . |
| 4 | Touche Ross thought that the requirement was appropriate in relation to partnerships , but recommended that it should apply only to cheques made out for an amount greater than a specified sum — a suggestion also made by a number of others . |
| 5 | This has indeed usually been the case : for instance , in ancient Greece where the value of a silver coin was generally 5 per cent greater than an equivalent weight of silver ( to cover costs of minting and profit to the mint ) . |
| 6 | For the criticality to occur at an angle of incidence less than 90° , the shear velocity in the solid must be greater than the dilatational velocity in the coupling liquid . |
| 7 | • Continuing Group pre-tax profit up by 30 per cent to £1.71 billion , greater than the pre-tax profit for the entire Group in 1988 . |
| 8 | It has been found in concentrations over 40 times greater than the standard set by the European Community . |
| 9 | And presumably the advantage of using a computer for that is much greater than the mere saving of time in a library and taking out a card and putting it in a wallet or erm a card folder or something like that , because you can retain in your computer a lot of information about what books are in the library and what books are out with lenders and so on . |
| 10 | Given the poor publicity generated by the Soviet Union 's agricultural failings , it comes as something of a surprise to look at the statistics and see that the Soviet Union is still the world 's largest wheat producer , greater than the European Community ( which also made agricultural self-sufficiency a goal in its early years ) by about 10 million tons in 1989 , outstripping the United States and Canada , the world 's ‘ breadbasket ’ , by almost the same amount . |
| 11 | If a local council exceeds this amount , then the local Council tax will be increased by a factor greater than the excess spending ( i.e. the high spending councils are penalized ) . |
| 12 | Men are in voluntarily unemployed if , in the event of a small rise in the price of wage-goods relatively to the money-wage , both the aggregate supply of labour willing to work for the current money-wage and the aggregate demand for it at that wage would be greater than the existing volume of employment . |
| 13 | Note that the average payment following the optimal strategy is around three times greater than the average payment following the myopic strategy . |
| 14 | In fact , for the UK the tax structure achieves progressivity ( a marginal tax rate greater than the average tax rate ) by having tax allowances and a wide band of income over which the marginal tax rate is a constant . |
| 15 | This relationship is n't just common to product relationships it 's the same in cost revenue relationships as well Okay , so so what that diagram is saying in symbolic terms is that if the slope of the ideal product of labour curve , right , if D L P D A P L by D L positive , then the marginal product of labour must be greater than the average product of labour . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Yep er well you read it just go along the top the line here , alright , the slope of the average product curve , right , will be positive , right , greater than zero if the marginal product , right , is greater than the average product , right , the slope of the average product curve will equal zero , right , if the marginal product equals the average product and the slope of the er the average product curve will be negative , right , if the marginal product is less than er average product |
| 20 | In 1988 , the average size of transactions where other EC companies took over UK companies was 2.5 times greater than the average value of transactions where UK companies acquired other EC companies . |
| 21 | Further the average score of 57.9 for the degree results of the non-standard entry mature students was significantly greater than the average score of 50 for all students . |
| 22 | The greatest cause of redundant data however is the inclusion of the company logo ; this has been known to be as much as an order of magnitude greater than the average model . |
| 23 | Her internal agitation was greater than the poised picture she presented . |
| 24 | The directors consider that the market value of the company 's interest in land and buildings amounts to £110,000 which is £48,956 greater than the net book value shown in the accounts . |
| 25 | Proposition Modules ( i.e. , the study of a particular aspect to a depth greater than the other course members ) |
| 26 | It was used as a categorical variable whenever the definition of abnormal values — that is , greater than the upper limit of normality — was necessary to calculate sensitivity , specificity , and predictive values . |
| 27 | Some people from both the Libyan Jewish and Slovakian foci of inherited prion disease have been found to carry the mutation at codon 200 and yet remain unaffected at ages similar to or greater than the upper age at onset in most affected relatives.Such incomplete penetrance has not been reported in other types of inherited prion disease . |
| 28 | which is greater than the estimated cost , .5 , of any of the other paths . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | In the first case , profits depend on having annual incomes which exceed annual out goings ; in the second , the price must be greater than the total cost of production inputs ( see Ambrose , 1986 : 4 ) . |