Example sentences of "far [adj -er] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gold shares , though far dearer than they recently were , are still attractive to some who reckon on rising prices . |
| 2 | But every minute in his consulting room I was conscious of the dozen or more , far sicker than me , waiting outside . |
| 3 | Far weightier than you would expect . |
| 4 | Only that Daisy had once been far prettier than her … |
| 5 | The flip-flop , outlined in the first of a series of three press conferences last Wednesday ( with more to come today , Monday ) , turned far messier than it needed to be due largely to DEC 's inability to admit that it had flip-flopped to begin with . |
| 6 | ‘ She asked if you were all right , ’ Leith replied , not certain that she was n't breaking confidences , but feeling she would have to be far tougher than she was not to give in to his unspoken plea for some salve on his pain . |
| 7 | Planning a new fitted bathroom is far easier than you ever imagined . |
| 8 | Getting upside-down is far easier than it looks — it just needs the right combination or circumstances . |
| 9 | The object of radical legislation is to introduce a more refined and coherent form of gradation which will ensure , inter alia , that guilty defendants are not able to bargain their way into sentences which are far lighter than they deserve . |
| 10 | See that launch at Lincolnshire , their P R department are far bigger than ours |
| 11 | Her face was pale , far paler than he remembered , as if she had been ill . |
| 12 | The Workshops of the Looms were far larger than he had expected . |
| 13 | For the tiny group of declared nationalists , cultural and linguistic oppression loomed large , far larger than it could for an illiterate peasantry ( although the use of the Ukrainian language had considerable popular support ) . |
| 14 | The two radical solutions were described in such extreme terms that the middle ground was made to seem huge and inviting , far larger than it actually was . |
| 15 | ‘ Miss Oliver will forget me in a month , and will probably marry someone who 'll make her far happier than I ever could ! ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Tealtaoich is far braver than he 'd like you to think , ’ said Feradach . |
| 17 | The threats to children to silence colleagues who , far braver than he had ever been , asked the uncomfortable question , or asked any question at all . |
| 18 | We soon discovered , not surprisingly , that she could cope with a curry far hotter than we could eat . |
| 19 | This is a very special breed , the smallest of those of the Channel Islands , with some unusual features and a remarkable ability to adapt to extreme climates , especially those far hotter than it ever experienced on the island of its isolated development . |
| 20 | I can diagnose tonsillitis , there 's an ENT surgeon who is far better than me at that ; I can diagnose appendicitis , hearts , whatever you can think of , there 's someone who is much better than me at it and these people are all now available to the population . |
| 21 | Bondi then wrote me a reference that was probably far better than I deserved . |
| 22 | okay , well one last thing , I start with the last thing at the beginning , strangely , I mean you 're obviously getting all the technical details and all the expertise from people who know far better than I do , so I 'm not going to go into much technical detail until perhaps a bit later , which might come up if we get a debate going or when I look at your press releases . |
| 23 | The film was seen by many critics as Lester 's least satisfactory during that period , but it was probably far better than he believed at the time , while embroiled in battles with Frank . |
| 24 | So Adam and Eve they go and hide , but it 's not just Adam and Eve , but it 's every one of us , they 're just pictures , they 're representatives of you and of me , they are the federal head of the human race , and Paul with his writing in Romans three , and verse twenty three reminds us , and J B Phillips in his translation , he puts it like this he says every one has sinned , every one falls short of the beauty of God 's plan , that plan , that purpose that God had , not just for creation , not just for humanity in general , but for you as an individual , that purpose that God had , that beautiful plan , far better than you can could work out , out for yourself falling short of it , we 've marred it , we have n't come up to it , if that circle represented just as a diagram as a picture , God 's plan God 's beautiful plan for you and for me still a circle , but dented here , bashed in there |
| 25 | Rather than chase somebody and take away what little respect they have , it 's far better that they go out and maybe get lost for a few minutes and then come back , than have somebody chase them . |
| 26 | ‘ Cricket ’ , remarked Pelham Warner sternly , ‘ is not a circus , and it would be far better that it should be driven back to the village green … than yield a jot to the petulant demands of the spectator . ’ |
| 27 | It is far better that you make your own tapes and choose your own images . |
| 28 | You have escaped with your life , it is far better that you ask no more questions and go home and forget . ’ |
| 29 | Be far better if they told us to do something sensible . |
| 30 | It would have been far better if he 'd done it the other way around — the rest of the set acoustic and then brought them on to play . |