Example sentences of "[conj] greater [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a condition of booking you must either take out our special holiday insurance arranged through the Eagle Star Group or arrange a policy yourself providing comparable or greater cover under all sections . |
| 2 | ‘ Further increases in size would give no assurance of superior service , improved efficiency or greater profitability , ’ he wrote . |
| 3 | Each of these has a different editorial policy and , to a lesser or greater degree , a political bias . |
| 4 | Whether it was approved or not — and usually it was not — it was understood on all sides that democracy meant , to a lesser or greater degree , popular power , popular sovereignty , popular participation . |
| 5 | I am sure that it will be fully appreciated by the people of Scotland when they assess the parties ' policies at the election , including the policies of those who advocate a lesser or greater degree of Scotland 's separation from the rest of the United Kingdom . |
| 6 | All the routes would therefore be prominent in the landscape creating a lesser or greater degree of visual intrusion across a wide area . |
| 7 | Now we all know because we 're print buyers to a larger or greater degree but they 're clients they over-estimate they add about twenty five per cent more on than they need and you have to send them back to sharpen their pencils several times before you 've seen the estimate , they of course know that all print buyers are idiots who keep forgetting all the important things and do n't give them half the information they need like the weight of paper or the fact that there 's to be a pocket at the back so , I think if we got the man I think if we maybe started off with H M S O the print buyer which is more akin to what we are and say well you know these are the problems I 've got I 'm sitting with a six million pound budget buying for the whole of the government of Scotland and I have problems and these are the problems that I have , then we get to the wee man from who says now wait a minute boys I get the rubbish that you send out , that was the message and let's make it funny but slightly aggressive let's highlight the real problems because that 's what it 's about , we 're not here for a nice night we 're here to learn |
| 8 | Semi-Vowel A gliding sound in which the speech organs start at or near a " close " vowel and immediately move away to some other vowel ( or occasionally to some other sound of equal or greater prominence , such as syllabic /I/ ) . |
| 9 | The patient 's feeling of being a burden on his family might be helped by counselling or greater support . |
| 10 | A 7° hinge-bending effect is observed on comparison of the two independent copies and a similar or greater range of flexion may be expected in vivo . |
| 11 | Their results are compatible with a 37% smaller or greater adrenaline response with human insulin compared with porcine insulin . |
| 12 | Changes to the fabric have to be effected as new toilets are installed , or greater provision is made for food preparation facilities . |
| 13 | On the other hand , it would be incorrect to suppose that the first influx of nuclear workers in Thurso did not produce the twofold or greater increase noted in rural new towns : the only two cases at ages 0–14 in the period 1951–67 occurred in the five years following the influx in 1958 ( expected 0.41 ; not significant ) . |
| 14 | ( 2 ) The cases in which a pecuniary advantage within the meaning of this section is to be regarded as obtained for a person are cases where — … ( c ) he is given the opportunity to earn remuneration or greater remuneration in an office or employment … |
| 15 | ( c ) he is given the opportunity to earn remuneration or greater remuneration in an office or employment , or to win money by betting . |
| 16 | What is the position when the first defendant is sued and the second defendant has caused similar or greater damage ? |
| 17 | In waters where bream breed prolifically , spawning every season to a lesser or greater extent , the shoals of small bream — skimmers as they are commonly called — can run into thousands . |
| 18 | One is therefore , of necessity , confined to such outcomes as income , type of occupation , reading and writing achievements , and the passing of examinations , all of which are quantifiable to a lesser or greater extent . |
| 19 | All governments , to a lesser or greater extent , will also be anxious that the rates of taxation do not undermine work incentives . |
| 20 | When it comes to the summer in your options that you take there , you will to a lesser or greater extent get some more advocacy experience during the summer . |
| 21 | Their increased involvement in the electoral process has had as much or greater impact upon the mobilization of some small sections of people as has the more generalized appeal of the parties . |
| 22 | At the same time , demands for freedom or greater autonomy are unlikely to be popular . |
| 23 | Bondholders have begun demanding event risk protection or greater security in the form of asset-backing . |
| 24 | The same or greater loss of bone has been found in all the predator assemblages examined here . |
| 25 | The minister will generally have to decide only whether the period required for retribution and deterrence is that recommended by the judge , or by the Lord Chief Justice , or is some lesser or greater period . |
| 26 | A leaseholder ( unless prohibited by his own lease ) can himself grant a lease for any term less than that which he holds ; a grant for an equal or greater term would be merely a transfer of his own interest . |
| 27 | Perhaps research shows that the advertising should give new information , stimulate trial , change , ideas and perception or simply build awareness or greater familiarity with a name . |
| 28 | The Karava élite resented the tendency of élite Goyigamas to regard them as inferior , and claimed equal or greater status . |
| 29 | Of equal or greater importance than earnings in assessing the impact of increased fee competition is the impact on profit margins . |
| 30 | Better , or greater use can often be made of resources that are available . |