Example sentences of "far [adj] than [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there are a great many people , quite sane , quite balanced , quite worthy of respect , who , in the privacy of their psyches , believe in things far stranger than the divinity of Hernan Cortés . |
| 2 | Also his playing career with us was far shorter than a lot of these blokes . |
| 3 | Statistics also show that while the crime rate has increased regularly for all groups , the rise in female crime has been far steeper than the rise in male crime . |
| 4 | This program is the best of its kind on the market for page making facilities , it is far better than a number of ‘ Commercial ’ pagemaking programs that are popular with users who only have a dot-matrix printer . |
| 5 | The result , however , has been that the number of jobs created has been far smaller than the number of jobs lost . |
| 6 | The London County Council had found that it simply was not worth trying to recover the cost of milk from the 25% of London parents whose income was high enough to make them liable for the full billeting contribution , since ‘ the few pounds they had succeeded in recovering over a period of several months were far less than the cost of its collection ’ . |
| 7 | The theological implications of such a recognition were profound , and required far more than a change in regulations . |
| 8 | ‘ The fact is , Mr Stevens , your father is entrusted with far more than a man of his age can cope with . ’ |
| 9 | Mr Mitchell , clearly reflecting on his transaction , commented later : ‘ In this day and age , farming is far more than a way of life — it 's a business and you 've got to be in there to protect the right to keep sheep . |
| 10 | The Enlightenment , then , is far more than a revolution in theories of knowledge ( epistemology ) or even new methods in science and critical philosophy . |
| 11 | He did not believe that long discussion was of great value , rather that a considered insight or idea produced far more than a wealth of verbal expression . |
| 12 | At a deeper level , the problem is far more than a kind of glorified managerial challenge . |
| 13 | This may take some time but patience will be rewarded far more than a loss of temper . |
| 14 | To Rumi the tears are far more than a guide in the spiritual quest ; they are the very water of life . |
| 15 | It is widely recognised that agricultural resources produce far more than a supply of raw foodstuffs . |
| 16 | Individual letters mean far more than a signature on a petition . |
| 17 | The celebration of the martyr 's anniversary had grown out of the commemoration of the departed dead ; but it soon outgrew the limits of its origins and became far more than the expression of that larger family solidarity which embraced heaven and earth . |
| 18 | They seem to have their origin in Judaism far more than the rest of the book . |
| 19 | That brief confrontation with Luke Calder had unsettled her far more than the incident in the garage , if she was honest . |
| 20 | Similarly , Margaret Thatcher 's reaction to the Brixton and Toxteth riots captured the public mood far more than the analysis of the Opposition . |
| 21 | Its produce of fruit , fish , nuts , raisins , dyes , medicines and natural chemicals are worth far more than the value of cut timber . |
| 22 | In Britain , heavier lorries failed to pay an equitable share of the infrastructural costs of the road network while passenger transport was favoured by tax incentives for company cars equivalent to far more than the value of the annual rail subsidy ( TEST 1984a ; Potter and Cousins 1983 ; Bagwell 1984 ; ch. 1 ) . |
| 23 | What worried him far more than the prospect of change , was the fact that he shied away from it , as a man set in his ways , and that was something he had never considered himself to be . |
| 24 | The difference in quality produced by different papers is far more than the difference in quality between the machines tested — by a mile ! |
| 25 | The submergence of North Africa beneath the tide of Islam in the seventh century meant far more than the loss of one of the most intellectually vital parts of the Latin church . |
| 26 | It was " far worse than the giveaway at Yalta , " he said . |
| 27 | The diamond survives the impact , usually , because its chemical bonding is far stronger than the bonding in the workpiece . |
| 28 | Our friends , who had gone to investigate the river , quickly decided that the call of the Kinloch Rannoch Hotel was far stronger than the call of April fishing . |
| 29 | There was an unspoken religious respect for another man 's possessions far stronger than the respect for property in normal society and correspondingly more unpleasant . |
| 30 | This was far longer than the age of the earth as calculated by the creationists . |