Example sentences of "it [verb] a greater [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It offers a greater choice of workers while linking in with other areas .
2 Families favour the Arts Centre over bed and breakfast accommodation because it offers a greater privacy .
3 If our country is to maintain economic stability based upon traditional industries it needs a greater proportion of locomotive , shipbuilding , power stations , etc. , than we currently enjoy .
4 Aluminium likes silicon : it has a greater affinity for inorganic silicate than for anything else .
5 Secondly , because a tax allowance reduces the total income on which a person pays tax , it has a greater value to a high-income person on a high marginal rate of tax than to a low-income one who may , if he or she pays no tax , not gain at all .
6 Not feeding for a couple of days before hand clears their systems and helps to make sure your fish eat the remedy , so that it has a greater effect and avoids the problem of rotting herbs polluting the water .
7 A tennis ball is more curved , so it has a greater curvature . ’
8 For example , how many members of the cancer patient 's family have the mutant gene , and do those who have it show a greater tendency to develop cancer ?
9 Party meetings continued to be held at the Carlton and it played a greater part in holding the party together when the Liberal Unionists joined .
10 In rural areas it assumes a greater significance , comprising , in 1971 , 24 per cent of the total housing stock compared with 21 per cent nationally , although this proportion is falling quite rapidly everywhere .
11 The company recognised that it faced a greater problem in attracting the Kent-based ( Orpington ) staff to Stevenage than it had in persuading the north London staff to move — distance alone was an important consideration .
12 the fish uses this to detect changes in water pressure , from which it gets a greater appreciation of sound and its position in the water .
13 Close by reared the immense domed bulk of the Palais de Justice , a complex so large it covered a greater area than St Peter 's in Rome .
14 In much work that was to develop within the compass of physical geography , the chronology assumed a greater significance , it required a greater knowledge of existing and recently developed dating techniques , and it thus involved close liaison with other disciplines particularly geology , biology and archaeology amongst the broadening spectrum of the earth and environmental sciences .
15 ‘ Overkill ’ causes unnecessary suffering to the offender , and all suffering is bad unless it prevents a greater amount of suffering or brings about a greater quantity of pleasure .
16 SERAFIN : ‘ From Greenwich to Westminster ’ — which I should think would involve somewhat similar considerations — ‘ even though it takes longer , even though I ca n't read or watch television to keep myself entertained at the same time , even though it demands a greater expenditure of concentration and nervous energy — and , one might possibly add , physical labour in pushing and pulling the various levers and pedals involved … ’
17 The greatest scope for study exists with cremation pottery for , being decorated , it presents a greater number of variables for study , thereby reducing the number of possible interpretations of the patterns produced by analysis .
18 Cockcrow means dawn , means day after night , life after death ; it asserts a greater cycle above a lesser one .
19 It advocates a greater role for the International Tropical Timber Organization in promoting sustainable tropical forest management and the expansion of plantations as a replacement for logging natural forest .
20 Moreover , it means a greater proportion of national income is in the hands of public officials , and care has to be taken to ensure that it is used well .
21 It is a concession of importance , since it indicates a greater convergence between the male and female work pattern than is usually suggested .
22 As was noted earlier , proponents of specialization claim , among other things , that it permits a greater development of knowledge and/or skills , and that it facilitates liaison with other agencies through increased awareness of how other disciplines work .
23 Although it was more mundane than its northern contemporary , it had a greater influence on subsequent town planning because it was not conceived as industrial housing but as a genuine attempt to improve living conditions for the working classes and encourage independence .
24 But when asked which tree had less , or to make one of two trees have less , children again chose the tree with more , and they added to the target tree until it had a greater amount than the other .
25 It had a greater impact on prices than previous upswings of comparable magnitude .
26 The first and major thrust of the Act is the clause enabling council tenants to purchase their dwelling at a huge discount — not a new trend of either Labour or Conservative housing policy , but certainly it represent a greater encouragement to owner-occupation than ever before .
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