Example sentences of "far more than [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.

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1 ‘ The fact is , Mr Stevens , your father is entrusted with far more than a man of his age can cope with . ’
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 At a deeper level , the problem is far more than a kind of glorified managerial challenge .
5 This may take some time but patience will be rewarded far more than a loss of temper .
6 It is widely recognised that agricultural resources produce far more than a supply of raw foodstuffs .
7 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 .
8 They seem to have their origin in Judaism far more than the rest of the book .
9 Similarly , Margaret Thatcher 's reaction to the Brixton and Toxteth riots captured the public mood far more than the analysis of the Opposition .
10 Its produce of fruit , fish , nuts , raisins , dyes , medicines and natural chemicals are worth far more than the value of cut timber .
11 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 ) .
12 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 .
13 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 .
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