Example sentences of "greater than [art] [noun] of " 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 | The biological effects of α-particles ( high linear energy transfer , LET ) are in general much greater than the effects of β-particles and γ-rays ( low LET ) . |
| 4 | The J/44 's RM is 14 per cent greater than the RM of a Swan 44 ( 1,900lb/860kg ) A larger RM allows a boat greater sail carrying power . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | LaBudde noted that the quantity of non-target species taken during their time aboard was greater than the quantity of squid harvested . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The cost transfer necessary would be far greater than the cost of the price subsidy . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | " 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 . |
| 20 | The unification of the mind is far greater than the resolving of the dichotomy alone . |
| 21 | Their relative importance is even greater than the floods of humid , temperate regions , because so little erosion is effected between floods . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | A million families have insolvency hanging over them as their mortgage debts have grown greater than the values of their homes . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Yet to the searching eye it is full of ancient treasure , none greater than the basilica of Sant'Ambrogio , of St Ambrose . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 ’ . |
| 29 | The powers of the court are greater than the powers of a natural parent : see the recent decision of the High Court of Australia in Department of Health and Community Services v. J. W. B. and S. M. B. ( 1992 ) 66 A.L.J.R. 300 , 314 , 333 ; In re R. ( A Minor ) ( Wardship : Consent to Treatment ) [ 1992 ] Fam. 11 , 25 , 28 . |
| 30 | That proportion is , however , rather greater than the proportion of Scottish National party Members or , for that matter , Labour Members who are here . |