Example sentences of "whole [be] greater than " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if he started boring on about the whole being greater than the sum of its parts , I would interrupt him : " Never mind about that , tell me how it works . " |
| 2 | The basic principle underlying the DIY approach is that ‘ the whole is greater than the sum of the parts ’ . |
| 3 | It is argued in [ 110 ] that Euclid 's fifth axiom ( The whole is greater than the part ) was included specifically to eliminate from mathematics the paradoxes ( c. 450 BC ) of the infinite introduced by Zeno |
| 4 | Because of the force of analogy , the meaning of the couplet as a whole is greater than the sum of the separate meanings of its two halves . |
| 5 | One of its ideas is that of holism — the whole is greater than the sum of the parts . |
| 6 | Most of you have probably come across the saying , the whole is greater than the sum of its parts . |
| 7 | And the whole was greater than the sum of its parts . ’ |