Example sentences of "[noun sg] have a greater [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The reader might wonder why paper money has almost superseded the use of metal coins when even one coin has a greater value in metal than the largest banknote has as a piece of paper .
2 Senior management capability has a greater impact .
3 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 .
4 More urban than its northern neighbour , Bury South has a greater proportion of council tenants .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 Water has a greater capacity to absorb heat than any other natural material except for ammonia .
9 The takings would be split with his partner in a previously agreed manner , with Thomas Duke having a greater share being " leading man " .
10 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 ) .
11 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 .
12 The findings certainly highlight the risk of hypotension ; elderly people and patients with inferior myocardial infarction have a greater propensity for this complication .
13 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 ) .
14 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 .
15 The mobilizing style has a greater appeal when there is dissatisfaction with the status quo and a feeling that new policies are required .
16 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 .
17 Nowadays , with Synodical government , the Church has a greater say in the appointment of its leaders — well , in theory at any rate .
18 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 .
19 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 ?
20 There is no doubt that this early form of man had a greater impact on the natural world than any other animal .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 Marital status has a greater impact on the mortality rates for men than those for women ( see Table 1 ) .
24 These data suggest that unemployment had a greater impact on major illness ( sickness lasting three months or more ) over this decade than vice versa , although the effect is not tremendously powerful .
25 He was saying that in order to have a greater life , you have to have a strong awareness of death .
26 Greater attention is now being given to the training of front-line paraprofessional personnel in order to have a greater impact on the country 's social development needs ( Pathah. 1983 ) .
27 National economic policy does not explain the whole of urban decline , but the attitudes and policies of the Treasury have a greater influence on the cities than probably all urban projects combined .
28 The vapour is a mixture of the more volatile component A and the less volatile component B. The particles of the more volatile component have a greater tendency to escape from the liquid than the particles of the less volatile component .
29 The second type : considerably fewer relics of serfdom , the landowner has to a considerable extent already become a capitalist , the peasants are better off and the peasant market has a greater capacity , etc .
30 Time had a greater effect on reducing the CCPR than did dietary calcium .
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