Example sentences of "far more [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The move will be particularly helpful to first time buyers , a Halifax spokesman said , and the impact could be far more wide ranging in Scotland , where the average price paid by a first-time buyers is considerably less than the £51,500 paid by their counterparts in south-east England . |
| 2 | She tried frantically to struggle , but his strength was far greater than hers , and even as she pushed against him she was overwhelmed by a far more desperate need to hold him , to feel his strong body pressed against hers once more . |
| 3 | Her record of her rural childhood and young adult life in Britain at the turn of the century is a fund of sociological insights and is far more fascinating to read , and incomparably better written , than practically any genuinely sociological work of the time . |
| 4 | It 's far more useful to think about plays in terms of the questions they ask us than what they tell us . |
| 5 | They were having a mission at the time and the preacher told Mother that it would have done her far more good to go to chapel than knit a quilt . |
| 6 | It may be far more powerful to live free from the past , weighed down as little as possible by how women have been perceived , or have perceived themselves , in that past . |
| 7 | We found it far more instructive to analyse balance in terms of the cross-curricular ‘ generic activities ’ of reading , writing , listening , drawing/painting , collaboration and so on which are a universal feature of primary classroom life , regardless of the curriculum labels used . |
| 8 | Because once it 's in , it 's far more expensive to get it out . |
| 9 | If his mind was too restless to maintain any hold on the spiritual , then did n't he have something far more immediate to face up to rather than to be wallowing in daily bouts of nostalgia ? |
| 10 | It seems far more reasonable to accept the great progress that Christian thinking has brought , while understanding the equally valid Christian teaching that man is a wretched sinner and needs to be changed . |
| 11 | To understand what an ocean is , it is far more helpful to see one rather than just read about oceans , and if we experience it by swimming in it or crossing it by boat , we are likely to have a much more real understanding . |
| 12 | It was obviously far more interesting to spend his time chatting up the local talent . |
| 13 | Flavoured varieties are available , but it is far more interesting to make your own additions to the basic curds . |
| 14 | A bonus was that he had been so fascinated by his earlier experience that his confidence in hypnotherapy as a whole had grown , and he was far more willing to undergo treatment than he might otherwise have been . |
| 15 | Michaels also says that other EC member countries are far more willing to put EC proposals and directives into force than we are . |
| 16 | People were far more willing to use them if they were diluted in a traditional herbal infusion like chamomile . |
| 17 | Is not it necessary to recognise that in future the Crown prosecution service should be far more willing to listen to allegations and to investigate them ? |
| 18 | The advocates of such a holistic viewpoint would have been far more willing to accept the need for preserving the complex web of natural relationships , and would thus have gravitated towards the environmentalist movement . |
| 19 | Some of us are far more comfortable asserting our status through control , while others will be more comfortable seeking commonality . |
| 20 | These not only keep your feet cosy and warm , but are far more comfortable to wear than layers of socks . |
| 21 | But overseas royal families are far more ready to put hand in pocket . |
| 22 | But the main problem is that it is far more difficult to teach a new spoken dialect because so many aspects of spoken production are automatic and below the level of conscious control . |
| 23 | While physical fatigue is one problem which needs careful control , boredom and lack of motivation are potentially far more difficult to combat . |
| 24 | Second , quality improvement is far more difficult to define and measure in health than it is in education . |
| 25 | The damage affected the balustrade in the painting , but neither the sky nor faces , which would have been far more difficult to restore , were affected , the Louvre said . |
| 26 | ‘ Stones have also been piled on top of them making them far more difficult to see . ’ |
| 27 | On the other hand , admissions to Tertiary Colleges are far more difficult to control . |
| 28 | Posters are far more difficult to monitor : in the past , agencies used to have their own teams of inspectors , but this is no longer done , and the only real check on the presence and condition of posters is a regular service run for the past 10 years by the Poster Advertising Bureau , which reports on the level of damage to posters , as a stimulus to the contractors to take care of their sites . |
| 29 | It is far more difficult to account for a further type of confusion . |
| 30 | The other main difference between the two species is far more difficult to explain . |