Example sentences of "be [adj] than [art] sum " in BNC.
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| 1 | For most purposes it is enough to know that an enterprise makes losses — that its revenues are less than the sum of its wages , its cost of capital and its cost of material inputs ( raw materials , components , energy and so on ) . |
| 2 | Possible tests of success in this facet of the changes is whether non-executives are clear about their contribution and whether decisions are more than the sum of executive preferences . |
| 3 | Good learning environments are more than the sum of their parts ; they are exciting , attractive , motivating and challenging for those within them . |
| 4 | If now the liquid is brought into contact with the solid , so as to wet it , then the energy of the interface between the solid and the liquid will be less than the sum of surface energies of the two surfaces when they are in contact with air . |
| 5 | In 1933 its total membership was believed to be about 300 , but the cost of a fund-raising appeal for £25,000 proved to be more than the sum collected and the movement went £800 into debt . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The agreement was for consultancy which records show were less than the sums of money involved . |
| 8 | And if he started boring on about the whole being greater than the sum of its parts , I would interrupt him : " Never mind about that , tell me how it works . " |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | An organization is bigger than the sum total of its people . |
| 11 | Religion therefore is more than just a personal affair and its influence in society is more than the sum of its influences on individuals . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The new union is less than the sum of the other two . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | The basic principle underlying the DIY approach is that ‘ the whole is greater than the sum of the parts ’ . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The meaning of a connected set of sentences is greater than the sum of their individual meanings . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The Union between England and Scotland is greater than the sum of its parts , and always has been . |
| 30 | One of its ideas is that of holism — the whole is greater than the sum of the parts . |