Example sentences of "greater [conj] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The approximations I used to derive the emission from black holes should work well when the black hole has a mass greater than a fraction of a gram . |
| 2 | The radial shields are rounded triangular to teardrop shaped , slightly greater than a quarter of the disk diameter in length , distally contiguous except for a row of granules which runs along the suture . |
| 3 | As the structure is not a single crystal , the sizes found vary from somewhat greater than a crystallite to diameters of a few millimetres . |
| 4 | Only when the cameras were rolling was it heart-sinkingly apparent that the physics of inertia , represented by nearly a ton of resting sand , were greater than the physics of motion represented by the four skidding wheels of a Land Rover . |
| 5 | The change in v 1 was , on average , relatively greater than the change in P immediately after the tetanus , but it showed greater decrement over time . |
| 6 | As a result total revenues would be lower in the industry in years of good harvest , and when there is a very poor harvest prices rocket through the roof because of the inelastic demand and therefore the change in price is much greater than the change in quantity er .. consumed on on the market . |
| 7 | LaBudde noted that the quantity of non-target species taken during their time aboard was greater than the quantity of squid harvested . |
| 8 | One can show that this increase in disorder is always greater than the increase in the order of the memory itself . |
| 9 | Three cases of the conchoid arise : with the fixed distance less than , equal to or greater than the distance of A from the fixed line . |
| 10 | Once musicians ' royalty income becomes greater than the cost of their recording time and personal advances from the record company , they start receiving royalty statements . |
| 11 | Trivers argues that the chances of selection favouring altruistic behaviour in which individuals dispense a benefit to another greater than the cost of the act will be improved when many potentially altruistic situations arise in the population , when there are repetitive interactions of the same kind within a small group of individuals , and where symmetrical situations favouring the return of benefits are common . |
| 12 | His reasoning was that the productivity of free workers was greater than slave labour if the labourers were offered sufficient inducement through piece-work and high rates for day labour ; the cost of getting the same amount of work done by slaves was greater than the cost of the higher rates offered as an inducement . |
| 13 | Certainly , within time , group equilibrium or balance will return , but there are many occasions when the cost of the group 's disequilibrium is greater than the cost of not removing that member . |
| 14 | The revenue has no answer to the anomalies which arise when the cost of providing a loss-making facility means that the average cost basis results in the taxpayer being treated as receiving a sum by way of benefit greater than the cost of buying that benefit on the open market . |
| 15 | In addition , the signal has to be correlated with observable future events ( e.g. , a ‘ bad ’ signal has to be correlated with future insolvency while a ‘ good ’ signal has to be correlated with future survival ) , and the cost of sending a false ‘ good ’ signal has to be greater than the cost of sending a ‘ true ’ bad signal for the firm as well as the manager . |
| 16 | If the saving in this direction is greater than the cost of the difference between 4·6 per cent and 0·2 per cent rejects , which are still cheap to produce , the compromise is worth adopting . |
| 17 | If the saving in this direction is greater than the cost of the difference between 4.6 per cent and 0.2 per cent rejects , which are still cheap to produce , the compromise is worth adopting . |
| 18 | The cost transfer necessary would be far greater than the cost of the price subsidy . |
| 19 | Obviously in that case the loss of earnings that the plaintiff had suffered was greater than the cost of employing a housekeeper would have been . |
| 20 | The car park charging scheme will cost £67,000 but the council expects the income from charges to be greater than the cost of setting up the scheme in the first year . |
| 21 | The reference centre policy also assumes that the average cost ( ie , per patient seen ) of hospital care is greater than the cost at a health centre , and that a reference centre is cheaper than a hospital . |
| 22 | " The optimism of the action is greater than the pessimism of the thought " is the motto of the scheme , which picks up a precedent tried in Amsterdam in the early 1970s . |
| 23 | The unification of the mind is far greater than the resolving of the dichotomy alone . |
| 24 | The approaches to the education of children with special needs , culminating in the 1981 Education Act , are equally applicable to pupils with defective vision , some of whom will be included among those pupils who are defined as having learning disabilities significantly greater than the majority of their peers , or as having some disability which would prevent them from having their needs fully met without special educational adaptations or modification to their curriculum . |
| 25 | Human language is unique to humans , and although some of the distinctive features of human speech , such as the mimicking of sounds , may be observed in other species , the resemblance between , for instance , the trained gesturing of a chimpanzee and communication via sign language among the human deaf is in some senses no greater than the resemblance between the speech of a parrot and that of its owner . |
| 26 | The reason is that the de Broglie wavelength of a cold atom ( typically 0.2 ) is greater than the scale of the atomic interaction , making the scattering intrinsically quantum-mechanical in nature . |
| 27 | Yet the utility of those services to the public is out of all proportion greater than the continuation of prescriptions free or at one shilling each would have been . |
| 28 | Yet to the searching eye it is full of ancient treasure , none greater than the basilica of Sant'Ambrogio , of St Ambrose . |
| 29 | If you prefer the individual icons to be displayed but there is not enough room on screen , remember that the Windows desktop is far greater than the size of the screen . |
| 30 | If a Canadian player seeks some reward greater than the thrill of representing his country against from the best from around the world , as if that is n't enough , he is bound for disappointment ’ . |