Example sentences of "[be] [verb] to be greater " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further , the inequality in child survival probabilities ( by level of mother 's education ) has been found to be greater in urban than in rural places and small towns , indicating that the former offers better educated , knowledgeable mothers means of compensating for child health hazards that are unavailable to uneducated , poorly informed women . |
| 2 | Digestion can therefore be expected to be greater in mammalian predators , and so it has been found here . |
| 3 | The fact that about 50% of all patients experienced minor faecal leakage in the first year after operation , discouraged the use of restorative proctocolectomy in older patients in whome the operative risk must also be assumed to be greater . |
| 4 | ‘ But the impact of rationing on the small , independent cheese-making sector is bound to be greater than on larger sectors . ’ |
| 5 | The lifetime of the proton in a nucleus is predicted to be greater than 1025 years , so it is not feasible to wait for a sufficient number of transmuted atoms to accumulate . |
| 6 | Percentage loss of prey from tawny owl pellets was found to be greater in summer than in winter ( Lowe , 1980 ) , and this could relate both to the greater numbers of immature rodents taken as prey , the bones of which are less mineralized and therefore easier to digest ( Lowe , 1980 ) , and to the likelihood of the birds producing the pellets being themselves immature In the case of the great horned owl it has been found that the stomach pH in immature birds is lower than that of adults ( Grimm & Whitehouse , 1963 ) and there is therefore greater destruction of bone and loss of prey . |
| 7 | Patients with ARF were subdivided according to whether their duration of renal failure was known to be greater than or less than 10 days . |