Example sentences of "far [adj -er] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Getting upside-down is far easier than it looks — it just needs the right combination or circumstances . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 7 | That would have shown the object to be far older than it really was , if the dodge had not been detected . |
| 8 | The hon. Gentleman 's synthetic protestations about unemployment would carry a little more conviction if he were not so determined to advance policies which , by introducing a national statutory minimum wage , by embracing the European Commission 's social action programme and by imposing a jobs tax on employers , would make unemployment far , far higher than it otherwise would be . |
| 9 | The traditional , massive unemployment of employable disabled people is far worse than it has ever been . |
| 10 | But his 1971 season was ruined by an uncompetitive March 713 and by the beginnings of his reputation as Hunt-the-Shunt , including a spectacular accident at Zandvoort which looked far worse than it actually turned out to be . |
| 11 | In fact it was far worse than it is today you know . |
| 12 | Those who are asking for that — many voices , including important voices , in Northern Ireland are asking for it — would create a situation for everybody in Northern Ireland that would be far worse than it is now and , God knows , it is bad enough at present . |
| 13 | erm ba basically i i I do n't think it 's that bad and I mean obviously he , he 's making the picture , I would say he 's making the picture out to be f far worse than it actually is because he , he is taking an extreme sort of left point of view so to speak . |
| 14 | ‘ The effect on the environment will now be far worse if it is not built . ’ |
| 15 | She 'd never had a weight problem , of course , but she must have lost a few pounds over the past few days , because the waistband of the shorts she was wearing this morning — which she had purchased in New York only last Saturday — was already far looser than it had been . |
| 16 | The marsh-mist was far denser than it had been last night , and there was nothing solid to give direction anywhere . |
| 17 | They broke down to some extent , particularly in Bohemia , the former administrative separatism of the provinces , and provided the monarchy with an income far greater and an army far stronger than it had ever possessed before . |
| 18 | On leaving the stall they plunged into the hall which was bedlam , and far fuller than it had been that morning . |
| 19 | The NPC ended its annual session yesterday by passing all laws and reports put before it , but dissent was far greater than it has been in the years following the 1989 crackdown in Peking , which Li played a leading role in . |
| 20 | Indeed I think it is true to say the technical know-how required then was far greater than it is now . |
| 21 | The city this morning is relatively calm , far quieter than it has been on many days in recent months . |