Example sentences of "is [adv] greater than [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The majority of these shapes will be compact coils because the possibility of their occurrence is much greater than for the more extended forms . |
| 2 | The proportion of the workforce covered by medical records ( the source of our data ) is probably greater than on most sites because a visit to the medical centre was one of the few legitimate reasons for breaking off work , so often made irksome by harsh weather . |
| 3 | their linguistic variation is typically greater than with other dialects of English . |
| 4 | However , the range and complexity of learned behaviour in humans is far greater than in any other species . |
| 5 | Notable among these is the fact that the mismatch of range is even greater than in the case of the prenominal adjectives ; it is true that one can usually expand a postnominal adjective to a relative clause containing be , though we should certainly note cases like : ( 31 ) he is dreaming of the whisky which will be galore with her arms which were akimbo she stared at Victor food which is aplenty is on sale in the end tent however , there is not the slightest difficulty about producing numerous examples where the relative clause with be is fully satisfactory but can not be reduced to a grammatical postnominal adjective . |
| 6 | But the number of students per school in the state sector is considerably greater than in the private sector . |