Example sentences of "is [adv] greater [conj] that " in BNC.

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1 Judge Huff comments , ‘ Information gained in discovery fuels the claimants ’ charge that Sotheby 's connection to the treasure is vastly greater than that of a mere stakeholder …
2 Not only is this information ignored , but some of the new-found local expertise on asbestos and health is apparently greater than that of Professor McDonald , the independent expert who has studied some 12,000 case histories .
3 The strength of the electromagnetic interaction is much larger than that of a weak interaction , and the range of the electromagnetic force is much greater than that of the weak force .
4 From a review of child and car stopping distances under various assumptions , they conclude that for a car travelling at only 16 km/h about 30m sight distance would be required , but that this is much greater than that normally feasible in existing shared space areas .
5 It is a naked-eye object , and binoculars show it excellently ; its actual surface brightness is much greater than that of the Small Cloud .
6 The knowledge gap between doctor and patient is not greater than that between lawyer and client — indeed there is probably much more do-it-yourself medicine than law — but the gap is less resented in medicine .
7 Feminist psychologists ' awareness of the complex discursive determinants of subjectivity is nevertheless greater than that of traditional psychologists .
8 Significantly , Kammerer goes on to add : ‘ Later on , … the results improve : in successive generations the mortality of water-eggs is hardly greater than that of other anura who depose their eggs normally in water ’ ( my italics ) .
9 The GNP per head of Libya is far greater than that of any other African country , so elective 5 was used to cause SYMAP to allocate the symbol ‘ H ’ to Libya on the printed map .
10 Clearly the visual impact of opencast working is far greater than that of deep mining , yet the loss of amenity is temporary , and full restoration is practicable and usual ; indeed , there can be a resultant improvement in amenity .
11 And the pressure of natural selection on the cuckoo is considerably greater than that on the host species .
12 If we believe in the idea that the most economical hypothesis is the best , then Daly should win , but it seems at present as though the evidence in favour of the subsidence theory , with its ad hoc lowerings of islands , is considerably greater than that for the Glacial Control theory .
13 The uncompressed density of the Earth is considerably greater than that of the Moon and this strongly implies that the Moon is strongly depleted in metallic iron compared to the Earth .
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