Example sentences of "far [adj] [noun] [subord] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far as Balfour was concerned , Zionism was ‘ of far profounder import than the desire and prejudices of the 700,000 Arabs who now inhabit that ancient land [ of Palestine ] ’ . |
| 2 | However , no thermally formed vortices have been observed , and if they were they would theoretically be on a far larger scale than the spacing of the longitudinal dunes ( Mabbutt , 1 977 ) . |
| 3 | Tai chi has far fewer styles than the hand system of kung fu , only a handful in fact . |
| 4 | The unspoken subtext of Barley 's amusing odyssey in search of Raffles is this : was all western imperialism really so bad , and were not men like Raffles far better rulers than the exploiters , white and brown , who came before and after them ? |
| 5 | ‘ Camels go on and on and on until they die ; and then one has the option of eating them , altogether far better tasting than a Michelin tyre , ’ writes Rene Dee in The Traveller 's Handbook . |
| 6 | The attackers had far better titles than the supporters ; but the scope for emotive , impassioned language was the same for both sides . |
| 7 | At the same time , an experienced solicitor may well be able to give a better legal opinion and be a far better advocate than a beginner at the Bar . |
| 8 | His rank was way above that of Moore : the Hopes of Hopetoun were far better stock than the Moores of wherever they sprouted up ! |
| 9 | ‘ I think he is now a far better player than the youngster we threw in at the deep end against Wales last season . |
| 10 | Until the 1980s the killing of 2000 or so pilot whales each year in the Faroe Islands was considered to be of far less significance than the slaughter of tens of thousands of the much rarer great whale species . |
| 11 | This design of eye reveals far less detail than a camera eye . |
| 12 | See , she 's got far more go than the others , ’ Gary said proudly . |
| 13 | He gave them far more money than the business was worth or than they should ever have got their hands on . |
| 14 | If the hon. Member for Hammersmith ( Mr. Soley ) and his Labour colleagues around the country , who control far more houses than the Government , showed even a tiny percentage of the indignation that he is now attempting to express about empty houses in Swindon in relation to the 5,000 empty houses in Labour-controlled Liverpool , the 2,800 in Labour-controlled Salford , the 2,000 in Labour-controlled Newham , the 5,500 in Labour-controlled Manchester , the 2,000 in Labour-controlled Newcastle , the 1,000 in Labour-controlled Knowsley , and so on — |
| 15 | But Coun Dr Ann Macleod said : ‘ I think it is too high a price to pay because the housing in the north-east corner will affect far more people than the loss of the National Gallery . ’ |
| 16 | Despite the coat of white lead paint at the base , despite the baited traps , still the squirrels ravaged the saplings , doing far more harm than the deer . |
| 17 | The graphics facilities allow the teacher to develop pictures with far more control than the blackboard or even the overhead projector normally provides . |
| 18 | Mr Atkinson estimates that Japan 's 21 most important commercial banks — including the seven trust banks and the three long-term credit banks , all in far worse condition than the city banks — have a total of ¥31 trillion of loans on which they are receiving either puny interest or no interest at all . |
| 19 | Having laid the groundwork of his interest , the politician had to be ready when election time rolled around again , and at that point an incumbent who could re-apply to constituents whom he had frequent occasion to meet , and ask them for a continuation of their friendship , without suggesting for a moment that any of them had a duty to support him in recognition of an implied bargain for past favours , was in a far stronger position than a man whose only contacts with his constituents took the form of patronage letters . |
| 20 | Long-tailed widow birds live in Kenya ; the males have , among other sexual modifications , a far longer tail than the female . |
| 21 | A plea of honest belief that a girl is above 16 is thus far more likely to be pleaded and with far greater success than a plea of honest belief in consent on a rape charge . |
| 22 | Most library suppliers produce ‘ library editions ’ of fiction by buying up sets of book sheets from the publishers , adding double strength reinforcing and laminating the dust jackets on to their own boards — the end result having far greater durability than a publisher 's casing , and avoiding the need for binding after a couple of years ' use . |
| 23 | A far greater problem than the journey from Rome to Verona and back was our plan to get married — which I was gradually getting used to . |
| 24 | A combination of clerical opposition and papal objections thwarted his attempts to tax the clergy directly , but to the king Winchelsey constituted a far greater problem than the pope who , susceptible to more and wider pressures , gradually modified his objections to Edward 's aims and granted him a papal tenth in 1301 . |
| 25 | Far greater teaching than the teaching of all the , the other teachers put together ! |
| 26 | The defence of honest belief that a girl is over 16 is likely to have a far greater impact than the defence of honest belief in consent in the context of rape . |
| 27 | As these figures suggest , councillors are predominantly male , middle-aged , and middle-class to a far greater extent than the population as a whole . |