Example sentences of "great [subord] [det] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cézanne in particular had as a rule relied completely on visual models , and had looked at the subjects of his paintings with a concentration and intensity as great as that shown by the artists of the early Renaissance in their rediscovery of the natural world . |
| 2 | Liberal Democrats aim to build an economy which is not only competitive and enterprising but also environmentally sustainable , leaving future generations a wealth inheritance — of knowledge , technology , capital and environmental assets — at least as great as that inherited by the current generation . |
| 3 | Again , the cash transfer leaves the individual less constrained , and the welfare maximum with the cash transfer ( point 8 ) greater than that achieved with the in-kind transfer ( point 7 ) . |
| 4 | The usual justification for paying the manager of a business a salary which is out of all proportion greater than that received by the men on the shop floor , who have direct contact with the product or with the machinery , is that the extra payment is for " responsibility " but this is just another name for " status in a power hierarchy " . |
| 5 | As I have explained , in such a case the adoption of the literal meaning of the statutory words would lead to a result whereby the taxpayer is assessed at an amount greater than that charged by the employer to the public for the same service . |
| 6 | In most hybridizing cells , the signal obtained with the antisense human CFTR probe ( Fig.2 b ) was also greater than that obtained with the sense probe ( c ) , implying that human CFTR mRNA is expressed following transfection . |
| 7 | a helmet of a type manufactured for use by persons on motor cycles which by virtue of its shape , material and construction could reasonably be expected to afford to persons on motor bicycles a degree of protection from injury in the event of an accident similar to or greater than that provided by the helmet of a type complying with one of the specifications referred to in the preceding subparagraph ; and |
| 8 | In Fig. 8.6 the amounts of fallen debris are proportional to the areas ABCD and ABEF : the amount provided by the cliff in Fig. 8.6B will obviously be much greater than that provided by the cliff in Fig. 8.6A . |
| 9 | The amount of energy each of us uses to support our way of life here in Wales , is about ten times greater than that used by the overwhelming majority of people alive on the planet today . |
| 10 | The authors support this finding with their observation that the recurrence risk ratio for first degree relatives in families with two affected members is greater than that found among the relative of single probands ( 18.1 v 8 ) . |
| 11 | However , their longevity is greater than that predicted by the theory of eddies . |
| 12 | They applied for judicial review of the Secretary of State 's decisions and sought orders of certiorari to quash those decisions and declarations that the Secretary of State could not set a period for retribution and deterrence for a mandatory life sentence greater than that recommended by the judiciary , that he was required to tell the applicants the period recommended by the judiciary , and if he departed from it his reasons for so doing , and that the applicants were entitled to be given the opportunity to make representations to the Secretary of State before he determined the period and for that purpose to be told of any information upon which the Secretary of State would act which was not in the applicant 's possession . |
| 13 | The concentrations of cholesteryl ester seen to increase lysosomal fragility in vitro ( 15 and 20 mM ) were greater than those observed in the rat pancreas in vivo ( 5 mM ) . |
| 14 | By the end of 1943 one such scarce commodity , rubber , was being produced synthetically in quantities one third greater than those used before the war . |
| 15 | A similar proportion of parental and cells died under these conditions ( Fig. 1a ) ; in both cases , the proportions of apoptotic cells were greater than those shown in the figure , as many of the dead cells detached from the substratum and therefore were not counted . |