Example sentences of "far [adj -er] than [art] [noun sg] of " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | The result , however , has been that the number of jobs created has been far smaller than the number of jobs lost . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This was far longer than the age of the earth as calculated by the creationists . |
| 7 | Far greater than the teaching of any great religious leader ! |
| 8 | If you prefer the individual icons to be displayed but there is not enough room on screen , remember that the Windows desktop is far greater than the size of the screen . |
| 9 | The unification of the mind is far greater than the resolving of the dichotomy alone . |
| 10 | The cost transfer necessary would be far greater than the cost of the price subsidy . |
| 11 | But it should be noted in passing that new mortgages for home-buying run at about the same level as the total volume of other types of new credit extended and outstanding mortgage debt is far greater than the total of all other forms of consumer credit put together . |
| 12 | And we see in this little story something far , far greater than the redemption of Elimelech for Ruth and Naomi we see here a picture of your redemption and of my redemption and those three qualifications , how they are met . |
| 13 | While the numbers affected by these disincentives are far greater than the membership of the underclass , the underclass is the most severely affected . |
| 14 | The United Kingdom is far greater than the sum of its parts . |
| 15 | It is important to emphasise that the impact of the Teacher Placement Service is far greater than the sum of teachers taking placement , as evaluative returns and case study evidence consistently point to the experience as a stimulus for change and the development of partnership activities . |
| 16 | Talking to women who have been there , or face the possibility of being sent there , you find that the fear of being put in the specials is far greater than the fear of imprisonment . |
| 17 | Topics investigated will include : social origins of singers ; their training ; the castrati as a group ( far wider than a handful of notorious star singers ) and as a symptom of economic depression ; the shift from reliance on royal or aristocratic patrons to professional independence and cash earnings ; changing contractual arrangements ; and singing as a means to social advancement and to women 's independence . |
| 18 | writes for an audience far wider than the historian of science , and although these essays may present some challenge for the uninitiated , today 's working scientist ( looking beyond the arguments about supercolliders or the effects of retroviruses on the human population ) could well profit from a dip into this book . |