Example sentences of "far [adj] than [art] " in BNC.
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1 | And there are a great many people , quite sane , quite balanced , quite worthy of respect , who , in the privacy of their psyches , believe in things far stranger than the divinity of Hernan Cortés . |
2 | The same problem applies to the new proposals , which are based on compensating flocks that are far lower than the Scottish average . |
3 | Opposition spokesmen claimed that the real turn-out was far lower than the official figure . |
4 | The number of applications — 57,900 — was far lower than the anticipated 300,000 . |
5 | The number of applications was only 65,623 , far lower than the 300,000 expected [ see also p. 38098 , whhich includes provisional figures ] . |
6 | Also his playing career with us was far shorter than a lot of these blokes . |
7 | The work of a senior local government officer is , therefore , far broader than the confines of a single department or even a single local authority . |
8 | It will provide massive rebates for those who are worse off ; and it will be welcomed by the majority of the public , who will realise that it is far fairer than the community charge , that it is progressive and that it will work . |
9 | make the council tax far fairer than the old rates , certainly fairer than the poll tax , and much fairer than the Labour party 's proposals . |
10 | Certainly , the social psychoanalysis of the oral aspects of the cultural superego seems far easier than the corresponding attempts to analyse pre-Oedipal oral superego elements in the development of the child where the crucial phenomena have occurred long before the acquisition of language , and where analytic ‘ reconstructions ’ are more likely to reflect the theoretical expectations of the analyst than they do the reality . |
11 | Which is far easier than the one you were using . |
12 | In fact the reduction in home trade is far bigger than the reduction paid out exports , and this is accounted for by the ten million reduction paid out now would give a right big fillip to trade . |
13 | I realised straight away that there was not an awful lot happening over here ; the country scene was far bigger than the blues at that time . |
14 | It is far larger than the CIA but much less well known . |
15 | The Sunday market was still far larger than the daily market , though it had shrunk by 20 per cent in the 1970s . |
16 | But , even within such a system the role of nations was not likely to be central because the main players in such a game would be units far larger than the states that most of the characterist , ie , separatist , nationalist agitations of the late 20th century were designed to form . |
17 | The bridge of the Simonova was far larger than the Navy pattern to which he had become accustomed . |
18 | These assertions , which would of course be very difficult to demonstrate in a literal or historical sense , are justified as part of Pareto 's general scheme of the equilibrium of social systems , which rests on a social-psychological basis : ‘ The principle of my sociology rests precisely upon separating logical from non-logical actions and in showing that in most men the second category is far larger than the former ’ . |
19 | The tented village was far larger than the one assembled for The Open at Troon and stretched over some 10 acres on the site . |
20 | If we look back at the previous example of the combustion of methane , we see that the enthalpy term was far larger than the entropy term . |
21 | Statistics also show that while the crime rate has increased regularly for all groups , the rise in female crime has been far steeper than the rise in male crime . |
22 | Now Mr Major is expected to announce that the Trident submarines will carry far fewer than the expected 512 warheads . |
23 | There were around two hundred Englishmen , far fewer than the islands ' combined forces , as they realised . |
24 | Although there was no visible difference in china , we felt it was cleaner because the water was far hotter than the hand could bear . |
25 | A polite refusal to comment further is far better than a panic reply . |
26 | This program is the best of its kind on the market for page making facilities , it is far better than a number of ‘ Commercial ’ pagemaking programs that are popular with users who only have a dot-matrix printer . |
27 | Oh a great help to sandwiches and a sit down meal at dinner at table with the family , it was far better than a dry sandwich eaten in the barn . |
28 | And do bear in mind that if you do n't hit it 100 per cent , the result is likely to be far better than a less than perfect pitch . |
29 | All were second-hand , but they were far better than the stinking rags he had been wearing . |
30 | ‘ Why did you realise at Christmas ? ’ she asked , nuzzling her mouth into his warm neck , and thinking it tasted far better than the doughnut she had been dutifully consuming . |