Example sentences of "far more [adj] than [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This network was far more complete than the Romans had needed , emphasising the local focus of much of Saxon life . |
| 2 | The American commanders are far more gung-ho than the politicians in Washington , and pressure mounts for an all-out attack on the enemy , including massive air strikes . |
| 3 | Plus your own gifts are far more useful than a plastic moustache , or a magnifying glass that does n't work . |
| 4 | Even so , the 37% drop in the Victorian sector is far more serious than the 9% setback that followed the 1979–81 boom . |
| 5 | But those are the two risks the police had to weigh up and what they will tell you is that one risk , a gunman on the loose , is a potential to main and kill , one is far , far more serious than the risk of causing some temporary fear and fright of little children . |
| 6 | Leaving white wines unfiltered is certainly far more revolutionary than a bit of oak . |
| 7 | Another advantage of growing tropical waterlilies is that some of the varieties open their blooms after dark , and these night bloomers are normally far more fragrant than the day blooming varieties . |
| 8 | These resemblances are far more impressive than the resemblance of clouds to weasels . |
| 9 | Shaved , shorn and bewigged , Simon Lay struts his forbidden stuff and upstages some of the girls but the deed is far more convincing than the intention . |
| 10 | In fact , it was far more welcoming than the bed in her flat . |
| 11 | ‘ There are other ways to control you , ways far more pleasurable than a blow . ’ |
| 12 | But it could happen with a fair deal , and it is far far far more probable than the marble statue 's waving at us . |
| 13 | * He blamed the Communist Tudeh Party for his overthrow ; the Communists were far more powerful than the Mullahs , he said . |
| 14 | A blend of clove , thyme , lavender and peppermint , for example , is far more powerful than the chemist might expect of the blend ( taking into account the combined chemical constituents of the oils ) . |
| 15 | Most brands , especially in fields other than the packaged goods for which the theory was developed , are potentially far more complex than the USP theory suggests , and a USP approach limits the opportunity for giving the brand a genuine personality . |
| 16 | It points out that unimmunised children run the risk of catching diseases which are far more dangerous than the injections might be . |
| 17 | What it boiled down to was : there was here , where he had friends and family , or there was London where he had a few friends and a lot of contacts , and it felt like things were happening , and where you could fill time with something no matter how mixed up and fraudulent you felt … or there was abroad , of course ; the rest of the world ; India ( to take the most extreme example he 'd found so far ) , where you felt like an alien , lumbering and self-conscious , materially far more rich and spiritually far more poor than the people who thronged the place , where just by that intensity of touching , that very sweating crowdedness , you felt more apart , more consigned to a different , echoing place inside yourself . |
| 18 | Prototype units were designed at the international workshops and discussed and modified in the field for the APSP was far more decentralised than the Mathematics programme . |
| 19 | The canes are far more striking than the flowers . |
| 20 | What looks like a four-leafed clover in the centre of a galaxy is in fact a product of gravitational lensing ; the four leaves of the clover are four different images of a quasar far more distant than the galaxy in which they seem to nestle . |
| 21 | Stuart McCall may not have been a second Peter Reid , Kevin Richardson was hardly another Paul Bracewell and Neil McDonald was very much a poor man 's Colin Harvey , but all three were far more constructive than the people who have replaced them . |
| 22 | On average ( £5.44 per capita ) the Wealden vale was filly comparable with the com-sheep region ( £5 — £5.55 ) and far more affluent than the forest ridge to the east ( £4.64 ) , where , in contrast to the rest of Sussex , the scarcity of truly rich people placed the biggest concentration of wealth in the range £10-£19 instead of £20-£39 . |
| 23 | And unfortunately , tonight the audience were far more interesting than the band . |
| 24 | And unfortunately , tonight the audience were far more interesting than the band . |
| 25 | Eugene Malou and Frank Friedmaier are far more interesting than the people by whom they are condemned : the fact that they come to sticky ends is Simenon 's fig-leaf , his nod in the direction of conventional morality . |
| 26 | His teaching programme was far more ambitious than the Cook 's tour round the library shelves plus a l:and-out , which was probably the best typical kind of library induction up to then provided in further and higher education . |
| 27 | If Minton was striving to produce a figurative subject far more ambitious than the café scenes associated with the Euston Road School , he was again defeated by his inability to find a style that was more than a pastiche . |
| 28 | For one awful moment she feared he would strike her ; instead he looked down at her , his contempt far more painful than a blow . |
| 29 | This literature is very substantial and far more sophisticated than the state subsidy theory of strikes . |
| 30 | Moses , who is far more sophisticated than the shepherd with his naive faith , asks , " And does God drink it ? " |