Example sentences of "be far [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " What is it made of ? " and " How was it made ? " are far better starting points and can lead on to the extraction of a great deal of information about the people and the society that produced it . |
| 2 | Market research has shown us that people are far more health conscious and far more sensible about what they drink . |
| 3 | In truth defectors are far more trouble than they are worth . |
| 4 | Furthermore , the leaves on the Pinot Blanc are far less bullate , that is to say not so bubbly between the leaf 's veins . |
| 5 | ‘ Over the past year there has been far greater commitment among the players , and a completely new enthusiasm , ’ he said . |
| 6 | Erm I would say however that there has been far more consistency about the view taken of the need for greenbelt protection on the part of the bodies and individuals I represent than has been shown by the two planning authorities judging from all the changes that they have propagated . |
| 7 | If this is to happen then there must be far greater participation than there has been hitherto by all members of the school staff in the establishment of general philosophy and purpose of the school . |
| 8 | We agree that most housewives are very undervalued and there should be far higher state benefits for the less well-off — particularly one-parent families — but is n't this taking things a bit too far ? |
| 9 | As Robert Sklar has suggested , there was no such thing as a typical depression movie ; rather there were a number of formats and an emphasis on production standards and conventions , but now in this new post-1933 dispensation there tended to be far less experimentation . |
| 10 | Of course the ‘ genre ’ was somewhat doctored now : the forces of law and order had to be given a more positive and heroic role and there had to be far less suggestion of anarchy . |
| 11 | It is worth considering the French model since , with the introduction of the national core curriculum , there will be far less time in the school day to devote to non-specialist teaching ; and with the new terms and conditions for teachers there may well be many who will want a strict regulation on the number of hours ' work they will put in each day . |
| 12 | She felt hot and sticky , and there seemed to be far less room at the bottom of the companionway than she remembered . |
| 13 | Third , there will be far less condensation on the glass , because the inner pane is not in contact with the cold outside air , and so is much warmer than single glazing . |
| 14 | In 1955 radiometry at planetary wavelengths established that the cloud-top temperatures were about 238 K , and it can be shown that if the clouds consisted of water ice crystals then there would be far more water in gaseous form in the atmosphere above the clouds than was observed . |
| 15 | There appears to be far more concern in anti-racist policies to alter the behaviour and attitudes of white personnel , compared with the attention devoted to altering male behaviour in schools . |
| 16 | I think there will be far more job-sharing . |
| 17 | There seems to be far more scope at the present time for the two generations to become friends . |
| 18 | There is an inherent danger in all this for our clothing industry which is that , unless manufacturers wake up , there will continue to be far more opportunity for European merchandise to come here , and little for ours to get elsewhere . |
| 19 | One partial solution to the problem of accounting for intra-regional cross-boundary flows would be to allocate resources to authorities taking no account of the cross-boundary flows and to leave them to take the responsibility of paying for their own residents treated elsewhere … there would be far more flexibility for the Area planners to arrange health care for their population . |
| 20 | You 'll be far more use to me there . ’ |
| 21 | This was taken by a number of experts as showing that earlier estimates had been purposely conservative and that ultimately there will turn out to be far more oil in the North Sea than currently estimated . |
| 22 | Similarly , she was almost sure that she would be far more understanding of Ross 's total drive and absorption in his business . |
| 23 | Said she , she 's going in for her fourth operation presumably to have this stapling done again , she says I believe that she 'd be far more counsellor , I , I would of thought she , she would of had counselling anyway before they go to stage of operating , surely , I mean , er do n't they look in into sort of psychological aspects of it , it 's usually a |
| 24 | I would be far happier seeing 15,000 kilograms of grapes in a fine , ripe and healthy year yielding 86.66 hectolitres of juice , than 13,000 kilograms stretched to supply the same volume of juice , leaving 2,000 kilograms of grapes of the same quality to rot on the vine . |
| 25 | His rank was way above that of Moore : the Hopes of Hopetoun were far better stock than the Moores of wherever they sprouted up ! |
| 26 | The farm workers were far more village orientated , were more likely to have been born and bred locally , and had lower incomes and poorer access to housing . |
| 27 | But to begin with , it 's far harder work than any actual job could be — and I start each day absolutely fagged out . |
| 28 | There 's far more communication flowing down than there is flowing up . |
| 29 | Yes it 's far more number of levers . |
| 30 | You know I erm Hugh was talking about erm somebody being thrown out of hospital after gall bladder operation after only two days well fortunately these days there are one or two strives in er in in health care erm to erm which is very much easier to er , operate on people if you 're if you if you 're going to put them out cos the operation 's more er simpler it 's far less stress on patients and and , and they they 're becoming a lot quicker er , clearly if faded out er , the way is completed then er obviously things are serrated with with the chief executive of the health authority and I 'd like to give you this October when when the Chief Executive was . |