Example sentences of "greater than [art] sum " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 The United Kingdom is far greater than the sum of its parts .
3 As a matter of interest , Dr Jean Valnet and other doctors in the field of clinical aromatherapy have discovered that blends of certain essential oils are not only more powerful than when used singly , but that the mysterious factor of synergy is at work — the whole becoming greater than the sum of its equal parts .
4 It is important to emphasise that the impact of the Teacher Placement Service is far greater than the sum of teachers taking placement , as evaluative returns and case study evidence consistently point to the experience as a stimulus for change and the development of partnership activities .
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 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 .
7 As Arnold himself so clearly saw , ‘ a society formed exclusively of boys , that is of elements each separately weak and imperfect , becomes more than an aggregate of their several defects ; the amount of evil in the mass is greater than the sum of evil in the individuals ’ .
8 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 .
9 The basic principle underlying the DIY approach is that ‘ the whole is greater than the sum of the parts ’ .
10 IBM Corp chairman Louis Gerstner has called a halt to plans to break up the company , the Financial Times claimed yesterday : the paper said Gerstner told a group of executives , ‘ The whole of IBM is greater than the sum of its parts , ’ and put the strategy into reverse ; John Akers had planned to bring outside investors into some of the decentralised IBM units such as AdStar and Pennant Systems , and was planning to sell some of them outright .
11 So Care Kaleidoscope , Caress , The X Factor … what should we call it when a variety of different ingredients are brought together , blended , and receive a release of energy which makes the whole greater than the sum of its parts ?
12 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 .
13 The meaning of a connected set of sentences is greater than the sum of their individual meanings .
14 And the whole was greater than the sum of its parts . ’
15 If we are to compete effectively in today 's world , we must begin to celebrate collective entrepreneurship , endeavors in which the whole of the effort is greater than the sum of individual contributions .
16 In collective entrepreneurship , individual skills are integrated into a group ; this collective capacity to innovate becomes something greater than the sum of its parts .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 Is it thus greater than the sum of the individual parts ?
20 There already exists much evidence of a willingness among a wide range of bodies to collaborate in achieving a result that is greater than the sum of their individual contributions , but there is more that could be achieved through genuine and lasting partnerships .
21 A plan consists of time , resources and indicated action but the whole is much greater than the sum of the parts .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 The Union between England and Scotland is greater than the sum of its parts , and always has been .
25 One of its ideas is that of holism — the whole is greater than the sum of the parts .
26 It is obvious that , if society is a whole greater than the sum of its individual parts , as the holistic fallacy alleges , then analysis of that social whole is impossible , and reductive , causal explanation is ruled out of court .
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 Most of you have probably come across the saying , the whole is greater than the sum of its parts .
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