Example sentences of "[adj -er] [conj] [art] sum [prep] " 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 | It is easy to cope with this in the TRP framework by setting to some large number K ( larger than the sum of the given s will do ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The United Kingdom is far greater than the sum of its parts . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The meaning of a connected set of sentences is greater than the sum of their individual meanings . |
| 18 | And the whole was greater than the sum of its parts . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In collective entrepreneurship , individual skills are integrated into a group ; this collective capacity to innovate becomes something greater than the sum of its parts . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Is it thus greater than the sum of the individual parts ? |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | A plan consists of time , resources and indicated action but the whole is much greater than the sum of the parts . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The Union between England and Scotland is greater than the sum of its parts , and always has been . |
| 29 | One of its ideas is that of holism — the whole is greater than the sum of the parts . |
| 30 | 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 . |