Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [art] greater [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further he comments that the male has the greater discretion of reason . |
| 2 | The reader might wonder why paper money has almost superseded the use of metal coins when even one coin has a greater value in metal than the largest banknote has as a piece of paper . |
| 3 | Senior management capability has a greater impact . |
| 4 | Those not receiving insulin therapy had a greater prevalence ( 45.6 per cent ) than those on insulin ( 30.7 per cent ) ( P<0.001 ) , although this relationship was not found in blacks in whom the prevalence of hypertension was similar regardless of the type of diabetic therapy . |
| 5 | More urban than its northern neighbour , Bury South has a greater proportion of council tenants . |
| 6 | Local people , however , often speak of Dent Town as a reminder of the days when Dent had the greater status . |
| 7 | This entire case depends on the assumption that the trust to set up a building in the town will be enforced in specie , The plea that payment should be allowed instead is ignored : the town has a greater interest in acquiring a ready-made building than in constructing or commissioning one itself . |
| 8 | The sighting dominant eye may be , but is not necessarily , the eye having the greater acuity . |
| 9 | Although the left stellate ganglion has a greater effect on arrhythmogenesis than the right in many instances , this is most likely due to quantitative rather than qualitative differences between the two ganglia . |
| 10 | It may well be in this mis-match of experience that the first seeds of misunderstanding and destructive tension are sown , particularly as the education officer is often perceived as ‘ the authority ’ , in several senses of the word , while the head has a greater knowledge of the processes of education required in school to meet the needs of the children . |
| 11 | Water has a greater capacity to absorb heat than any other natural material except for ammonia . |
| 12 | The takings would be split with his partner in a previously agreed manner , with Thomas Duke having a greater share being " leading man " . |
| 13 | Such romantic libretti required a choreographer to have a greater understanding of the significance of each movement , particularly if the protagonists came from different classes or environments as in La Sylphide ( a farmer and a fairy ) or Giselle ( a count and a peasant ) . |
| 14 | That is , when asked which tree had more or when asked to make a tree so it had more , children responded appropriately : they picked out the tree with the greater number , and they added apples until the target tree had a greater number . |
| 15 | The findings certainly highlight the risk of hypotension ; elderly people and patients with inferior myocardial infarction have a greater propensity for this complication . |
| 16 | In the light of W. McCready 's findings in another study that the religious behaviour of the father had a greater impact on children , Greeley considered the fact that catholic schools were having an increasing influence on men to be of significant importance for the future of Roman catholicism in the USA ( 1976 : 173–5 ) . |
| 17 | For example , in red deer , longevity , offspring survival and home range quality have a greater effect on the reproductive success of hinds than on that of stags . |
| 18 | Companies are merely voluntary associations of individuals joined together by contract , and correspondingly the state has no greater standing to intervene in corporate affairs than it has in the individual affairs of the citizens who make the company up . |
| 19 | The mobilizing style has a greater appeal when there is dissatisfaction with the status quo and a feeling that new policies are required . |
| 20 | This may imply that the difference in total lipid concentration of diluted bile has a greater influence on the nucleation time compared with that of concentrated bile , as shown in model bile . |
| 21 | Nowadays , with Synodical government , the Church has a greater say in the appointment of its leaders — well , in theory at any rate . |
| 22 | For example , while sexual dimorphism in size is likely to evolve where variation in male success is greater than female success and a given increment in body size has the same effect on breeding success in both sexes , it will also evolve if variation in reproductive success is similar in both sexes but size has a greater influence on success in males or even if variation in success is greater in females but the effects of size are greater among males . |
| 23 | Similarly , does size have a greater effect on reproductive success in female Weddell seals compared to land or pack-ice breeding species because they breed on fast ice and defend access to water holes ? |
| 24 | There is no doubt that this early form of man had a greater impact on the natural world than any other animal . |
| 25 | The PLP could conduct a poll of its members to test which man had the greater support . |
| 26 | One minute they were having a philosophical discussion , and the next a very physical encounter , in which Shelley felt that her companion had the greater advantage . |
| 27 | This road had a greater significance in past centuries when it was the regular route to Skye , the way taken by Dr Johnson and Boswell in their tour of exploration ; a glance at the map shows that it followed a direct line from Shiel Bridge to Broadford across the Kylerhea ferry . |
| 28 | " Fascism has no greater enemy than peace " , noted Nizan in 1935 . |
| 29 | Cruttenden 's data also tend to confirm that congruity has a greater effect when it is paired with gender cue , which is the condition in which it would seem , a priori , to be less useful . |
| 30 | Marital status has a greater impact on the mortality rates for men than those for women ( see Table 1 ) . |