Example sentences of "[is] far [adj] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nowt can change that ; and when it comes from t'family that a man 'as reared and cared for , it 's far worse than from others . ’ |
| 2 | I says , he 'll be bracksy He says , oh , he says , he 's far worse than that , he 's dead . |
| 3 | Dr Shotton pours scorn on mothers who chastise their offspring for playing video games : ‘ It 's far healthier than watching TV . |
| 4 | Yes , yes , I mean this year , with the formula obviously , because the number of fire calls has dropped , it impacts upon er , as I say that , I do n't know whether the actual , the cost , the differential between the number of calls that have dropped and the drop in the S S A , whether it 's comparable , and I do n't suppose they 've got a measure of the drop , in S S A terms it 's far greater than the actual marginal costs of er , not attending those er , extra , extra fire calls . |
| 5 | That 's far faster than any other type of workplace injury claim . |
| 6 | It 's far more than just a place to drink ; it 's the social and conversational heart of any Irish village . |
| 7 | Their relation is far closer than the arbitrary link between signifier and signified so that in some contexts ( irony or double entendre for example ) connotative meanings are part and parcel of the denoted meaning . |
| 8 | It has been shown in the experimental literature on the prisoners ' dilemma game that the strategy of ‘ tit for tat ’ is a very effective and frequently chosen way of sustaining co-operation even though it is far simpler than Abreu 's strategies ( and neither subgame perfect nor renegotiation-proof ) . |
| 9 | The scene where Kathleen Byron puts on bright red lipstick is far sexier than most modern bedroom scenes with thrashing limbs and hovering breasts . |
| 10 | With a rope break , the climb out is at the normal towing speed when the rope breaks , whereas when engine problems occur the tow is usually slow and the climb is far worse than normal . |
| 11 | The traditional , massive unemployment of employable disabled people is far worse than it has ever been . |
| 12 | To remove a cat 's claws is far worse than to deprive cat owners of their finger-nails . |
| 13 | They claim that this age is far worse than previous ages , and they go on as though they had learned nothing at all from history — and yet history is the great teacher of life ( magistra vitae ) . |
| 14 | The collection position in Scotland is far worse than in this country . |
| 15 | Since then at the planning sub-committee Mr has produced a whole load of new made-up figures which pretend that the situation is far worse than that . |
| 16 | The United Kingdom is far greater than the sum of its parts . |
| 17 | There can be little doubt that this is about to happen again , and our debt to the soil is far greater than ever before . |
| 18 | There are also studies from Malaysia , which are illustrative of the effects of logging practices in tropical regions in general , which show that the destructive effect is far greater than just the removal of trees . |
| 19 | The unification of the mind is far greater than the resolving of the dichotomy alone . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The Revenue is centralising its cases on this point at claims branch and of course the value to the Revenue of fighting these cases is far greater than the value to individual taxpayers ; on the other hand , the financial risk for the individual taxpayer of being the first to take such a case before the Special Commissioners or higher , would be extremely high . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Typically for the period the quantity of finished products is far greater than the known examples of production sites . |
| 24 | Nurse managers have a responsibility for the settings in which patients are cared for which is far greater than the same responsibility of nurses at large , simply because they are employed in positions which enable them to make appropriate representations . |
| 25 | Women 's social presence in this area , as shown by crime statistics , is far greater than their sociological visibility would suggest . |
| 26 | The number on the register is far greater than the number formerly liable for domestic rates — one reason for the introduction of the new system — and it is correspondingly more difficult to prevent non-registration and evasion . |
| 27 | Often , the risk of sharing is far greater than keeping an idea to oneself . |
| 28 | However , the range and complexity of learned behaviour in humans is far greater than in any other species . |
| 29 | I know many Scottish women who will spend more than two thousand pounds going on a skiing holiday abroad and the risk is far greater than submitting to surgery . |
| 30 | The range of natural environments contained within Yugoslavia itself is far greater than one might expect in an area only 5 per cent larger than the United Kingdom . |