Example sentences of "far [adj] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Control of interest rates loomed far larger than control of money supply . |
| 2 | ‘ Doctors , who have never been taught medical entomology and do n't know what a mite is , would be far happier if asthma were caused by cigarette smoke , pollution , plant pollen or cat fur , but few cases actually are . |
| 3 | Trident is far deadlier than cruise missiles ever were . |
| 4 | It is aimed either at the external hacker of which there are far fewer than press reports suggest or at the employee who though they have legitimate access legitimate lim limited access to a computer , nevertheless go beyond that authorization , but in order for the act to be successful , in order to get a successful prosecution , the prosecution have got to show that the access was unauthorized , and in the absence of clear codes of conduct , clear on-screen messages , that can be quite tricky . |
| 5 | It would have been far better if majority voting had applied in that instance . |
| 6 | Epiphany is one of the oldest festivals in the Church , far Older than Christmas . |
| 7 | Pat Yot had never been entrusted with such responsibility before but she had become a friend of the family ; to Bernard and Laura loyalty and energy mattered far more than experience . |
| 8 | In fact the Report immediately makes clear the Committee 's view that English involves far more than lucidity and fitness to a specific purpose , in that it is also potentially a powerful force for national cultural enrichment , and even international cultural ascendency : |
| 9 | BUYING a computer system for a single hotel or restaurant , or for a chain of units , involves far more than ordering and taking delivery of powerful foxes loaded with clever software . |
| 10 | It is sometimes salutary to imagine yourself selling your clients product from door to door when clarity and persuasion would help you far more than oratory . |
| 11 | Discipleship is far more than initiation into a particular congregation or even accepting the terms of membership prescribed by a particular denomination . |
| 12 | I thought Speed and mcAllister faded far more than strach . |
| 13 | The relative prices of timber and steel vary greatly in different countries and also the price of timber itself varies from that of rough timber , which may be much cheaper than steel , up to expensive plywoods which cost far more than steel sheet . |
| 14 | In 1985 local authorities ( England and Wales ) had a gross loan debt outstanding of 42.3bn and total loan charges for the year serviced from revenue account amounted to 5.03bn ( far more than revenue expenditure on major services such as police ( 3.3bn ) and social services ( 2.98bn ) . |
| 15 | IBM Corp 's board has settled on a pay and benefits package for new chief executive Louis Gerstner , who takes up his post today , valued at over $7m : he will receive an annual salary of $2m , a one-time transition payment of $5m and a string of other incentives including a performance incentive potentially worth $1.5m a year , $500,000 long-term incentive tied to performance over three years and options on 500,000 IBM shares — far more than predecessor John Akers got . |
| 16 | The package is far more than predecessor John Akers got . |
| 17 | However , elite collusion can and does entail far more than agreement on the ‘ rules of the game ’ . |
| 18 | Their first baby , who was to cause far more than labour pains , arrived in mid-May 1939 . |
| 19 | In most respects , using wave lift is far safer than cloud flying for attempts at Gold and Diamond heights . |
| 20 | Far worse than death is disorder , the tool of Chaos . ’ |
| 21 | Only Jacob 's actions are far worse than Ham 's , and coldly calculated into the bargain . |
| 22 | He was shaken , almost physically , by an emotion far stronger than distaste and one of which he was half-ashamed ; it seemed to him both ignoble and in itself hardly more rational than the event itself What he was feeling was a revulsion amounting almost to outrage . |
| 23 | Rarely sexy , it is nevertheless far spunkier than Ambition . |
| 24 | Both produced passenger levels far greater than forecast and have encouraged more planning of urban light railways . |