Example sentences of "great than it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then the Sun 's angular diameter was about two thirds of a second of arc greater than it is today . |
| 2 | That the ‘ degenerescence ’ of the population of this district is not even greater than it is , is due to the constant recruiting from the adjacent country , and intermarriages with more healthy races . |
| 3 | Indeed I think it is true to say the technical know-how required then was far greater than it is now . |
| 4 | ‘ And probably the level of civilisation is no greater than it is within the Khanate — otherwise the embassy would be coming the other way . ’ |
| 5 | Since a variety of conduct is included within the term gross indecency , the protection afforded to male patients from sexual exploitation is greater than it is for female patients . |
| 6 | However in England , the evidential burden on the prosecution may not be any greater than it is under Categories 1 and 2 in many of the situations which they cover , for , as Glanville Williams has pointed out : ‘ If the prosecution gives evidence that violence was used , this should be enough to discharge the evidential burden on the issue of consent and take the case to the jury … |
| 7 | But the , the link between sex and reproduction is always likely to be more critical to a woman So , so , so you see th th the point I 'm making is these insights seem to me to be to have a kind of relevance to er women 's experience of sex that is some ways greater than it is to male males can you know once they 've done their fertilizing work , they 're , they 're really through as far as erm as far as biology is concerned , not perhaps as far as social . |
| 8 | The Joint Land Requirements Committee carried out an interesting public survey which showed that very few people ( 8 per cent ) have even a broadly correct impression of the actual proportion , and a third perceived the proportion to be ten times greater than it is . |
| 9 | Tha that 's a pretty simple sort of basis for assessment , but as you 'll see from the map it 's not by no means a consis consistent level and in the areas where we 're erm where where the sites for the most part occur , er the c the level of commuti commuting is much greater than it is er outside those areas . |