Example sentences of "[is] [adj] [subord] the sum " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole thang is bigger than the sum of its parts , but the parts are pretty tremendous too ; a shimmering funk arrangement , a mordantly witty lyric extolling the virtues of the unashamedly high life ( ‘ Clams on the half-shell/And roller skate , roller skate ’ indeed ! ) and that uncoiling , insinuating bass riff that stopped the world in its tracks . |
| 2 | An organization is bigger than the sum total of its people . |
| 3 | Religion therefore is more than just a personal affair and its influence in society is more than the sum of its influences on individuals . |
| 4 | The special and attractive character of the Ortiz collection is that it is not just an assemblage of objects but the coherent vision of a man who believes that the whole is more than the sum of its parts and that the collector is as creative as the artist . |
| 5 | Since these ‘ facts ’ belong to the group as a whole and since the latter is more than the sum of its parts , they have a transcendent reality of their own and can not simply be reduced to the individuals in whose conduct they manifest themselves . |
| 6 | There is the sense here that reason is more than the sum of its parts , and that the serious pursuit of truth can , over time , generate a way of looking at the world and an approach to forming judgements on it that stands over and above any particular truths that may be assimilated on the way . |
| 7 | The amplitude of the decaying exponential ( 2.3x10 -6 Hz ) is less than the sum of these , leaving a net increase of 0.25x10 -6 Hz . |
| 8 | The new union is less than the sum of the other two . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | The basic principle underlying the DIY approach is that ‘ the whole is greater than the sum of the parts ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The meaning of a connected set of sentences is greater than the sum of their individual meanings . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 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 | The Union between England and Scotland is greater than the sum of its parts , and always has been . |
| 22 | One of its ideas is that of holism — the whole is greater than the sum of the parts . |
| 23 | Most of you have probably come across the saying , the whole is greater than the sum of its parts . |