Example sentences of "it [vb -s] 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 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | 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 … ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Cockcrow means dawn , means day after night , life after death ; it asserts a greater cycle above a lesser one . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It is a concession of importance , since it indicates a greater convergence between the male and female work pattern than is usually suggested . |
| 17 | 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 . |