Example sentences of "[is] [det] [subord] [art] sum " in BNC.

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1 Religion therefore is more than just a personal affair and its influence in society is more than the sum of its influences on individuals .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 The new union is less than the sum of the other two .
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