Example sentences of "great [subord] [adj] [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | On appeal by the company , it was held that the duty of fidelity owed by Fowler and others to the company as former employees was not as great as that owed by an employee during the course of his employment . |
| 2 | Even if production of the five main CFCs is reduced by 50 per cent — the figure aimed at by signatories of the Montreal Protocol — the warming due to CFCs by 2050 will be nearly as great as that caused by carbon dioxide . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 " . |
| 6 | the maximum latency should be no greater than that determined by any decay mechanism in the media in use but may be shorter depending upon the arguments above on confidence . |
| 7 | The court might hold that the existence of the default power precludes the tort action ; but if the authority has not just failed to act but has taken positive action , or if it has acted ultra vires , or if it has inflicted injury on the applicant greater than that suffered by other affected parties ( ‘ special damage ’ ) , a court might be prepared to allow a tort action even in the face of a statutory default power . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Ltd. v. Conservators of the River Thames ( 1899 ) 15 T.L.R. 474 Phillimore J. held that the steamship company was entitled to recover a charge for making use of the conservators ' pier facilities which was greater than that authorised by statute , the ground being simply that there was no consideration for the payment without any further reasoning . |
| 10 | And the damage to health caused by alcoholism and stress among Soviet citizens moved from their homes was probably greater than that caused by released radioactivity . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In the frail beam of light the longish hair in separated locks gave an appearance of neglect almost greater than that suggested by his crushed trousers and crumpled jacket . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | However , their longevity is greater than that predicted by the theory of eddies . |
| 16 | Therefore with one-phase-on operation of the hybrid motor the fundamental component of the phase voltage increases with speed and consequently the pull-out torque at high speeds is greater than that predicted by Eqn . |
| 17 | A mixture which exerts a vapour pressure greater than that predicted by Raoult 's law is said to show a positive deviation . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | * Since , weight for weight , the strengths of commercial steel and timber are comparable , the total of the burdens supported by wood may well be greater than those supported by steel , though no doubt many of the loads which steel carries are the more spectacular . |
| 20 | The risks of passive smoking are greater than those posed by any other indoor man-made pollutant … ‘ |
| 21 | The strength of their personalities partially explains the fact that Charles III was able to exert more effective authority than any ruler of Spain for generations , and that the powers of Maria Theresa were greater than those wielded by any of her predecessors . |
| 22 | The powers of British central government are greater than those enjoyed by any other democratic country of comparable size . |
| 23 | For both men and women , of course , the differences in real income between the university and the school group are greater than those shown by money income alone because of the better fringe benefits provided in professional and middle-class occupations . |
| 24 | The difference , of course , is that under Article 86-type legislation there would be a prospect of fines for abuse of market power , giving rise to potential costs much greater than those incurred by an MMC inquiry . |