Example sentences of "[noun] far [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alyssia ended up looking forward to her lunch with André far more eagerly than she had originally thought possible . |
| 2 | In anything like calm weather either climb is a good bet , remaining in good condition far more often than many options of adjacent crags . |
| 3 | As the days passed I might have been telling him the truth , for I lost weight far more successfully than on any diet I have ever attempted . |
| 4 | While it is a fact that we often eat much more than we imagine we do ( try writing down everything you eat over a period of a week and prove the point ) , it is a fact that some people put on weight far more quickly than others . |
| 5 | It seemed that he did want to , for he answered her question far more fully than he need have done . |
| 6 | She felt the distance from England far more acutely than her preoccupied spouse ; her thoughts were with the children , and , even at this early stage , she longed for the voyage home . |
| 7 | Yet most modern models of language , from Saussure 's onwards , give a fuller and more coherent account of it than traditional grammar ever did , and therefore offer the possibility of describing the linguistic features of texts far more exactly than was possible with the rag-bag of grammatical and metaphorical terminology on which criticism has traditionally depended . |
| 8 | The Evangelical movement , despite its minority status , cast its influence far more widely than the actual numbers of its adherents might suggest ; it is of especial interest to students of child rearing attitudes , in that its followers were so prolific in their writings that their beliefs ( or watered-down versions of their beliefs ) dominated both the advisory literature available to parents and the children 's own reading matter for upwards of two centuries . |
| 9 | Africans take failure far more seriously than you do here in the West . ’ |
| 10 | In the first place , even in the early 1980s , the more rural areas were still gaining population far more rapidly than the nation as a whole , and the more general process of deconcentration from the metropolitan counties and from the largest settlements in non-metropolitan counties was still continuing apace . |
| 11 | Ralph Berger has also found that subjects woken from REM sleep report colour in their dreams far more frequently than people do when asked about their dreams during the day — even subjects who claimed never to dream in colour . |
| 12 | In order to benefit from favourable international developments , indeed in order to avoid falling victim herself to the volatile diplomacy of the period , Russia had to mobilize her resources far more effectively than she had under Peter 's predecessors . |
| 13 | More importantly , they adapted to the conditions far more effectively than Gavin Hastings ' band of teetotallers . |
| 14 | The processors themselves are linked by a mesh of point-to-point connections , which carry localised traffic between co-operating processors far more efficiently than a shared bus . |
| 15 | Children these days stay over at each other 's houses far more often than they did 20 years ago . |
| 16 | She had allowed him to come too close , to penetrate her defences far too easily as it was this evening . |
| 17 | The study also reveals that heavy metals , in particular cadmium and zinc , present in the sludge , are taken up by plants and can be absorbed into the food chain far more easily than previously thought . |
| 18 | ( This is not meant to be a criticism , for I doubt whether we can work effectively without such things ; it is merely to point out that modernity enters the church far more easily than the church enters modernity . ) |
| 19 | Johns ( 1991 : 10–11 ) makes similar claims with respect to topic-prominent vs. subject-prominent languages : ‘ in a topic-prominent language linear arrangement follows the scale of CD far more closely than it does in a subject-prominent language ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ At the moment though , with so few experts in this field , underwater sites will come forward for consideration far less often than land sites . |
| 21 | Thus collectors can get back to the sound of the original master-tape far more closely than would be possible with any 1955 disc , let alone a forgery of one . |
| 22 | As regards the public perception of the term ‘ antique ’ , I think it would be fair to say that a great many of today 's most eminent collectors , particularly in America , and public institutions , are definitely beginning to interpret the word far more loosely than its previously accepted definition of ‘ a hundred years old ’ and , it is clearly a great shame that two of the most original and internationally influential artistic styles ever to emerge in Britain are almost entirely excluded from the Fair : the Arts and Crafts Movement and Art Nouveau , on the basis of age . |
| 23 | ‘ I think women probably want sex far more often than men think they do . |
| 24 | The strings , thanks to their numerical superiority , are able to hold their own against the brass far more successfully than can the woodwind . |
| 25 | For the same reason , there was no obstruction of the highway — the miners were getting from home to colliery far more quickly than normal , thanks to the chauffeur and the VIP escort . |
| 26 | For example , the regional distribution of residential and foster care services in the United Kingdom is known to be uneven with some local authorities using EBD schools and residential care far more frequently than others ( Fuller and Stevenson , 1983 ) . |
| 27 | And if Davie 's principles make him what some might call ‘ elitist ’ or ‘ undemocratic ’ , as in his stinging verdicts on ‘ catchpenny enterprises … like the Arvon Poetry Competitions ’ , it is not without his having pondered the arguments about the place and function of elites and of high art in a democratic nation far more deeply than the bulk of his fellow countrymen . |
| 28 | The central irony of the courtroom crusade — what might be termed " the Spycatcher effect " — is always present : seek to suppress a book by legal action because it tends to corrupt , and the publicity attendant upon its trial will spread that assumed corruption far more effectively than its quiet distribution . |
| 29 | It is clear that one of the reasons why the companies were prepared to invest so much in the provision of housing for their workmen was because they could influence employees living in company houses at the pit gates far more effectively than those living in a more mixed community several miles from their place of work . |
| 30 | Large chains can keep track of shoppers ' preferences daily , enabling central merchandisers to predict selling trends far more accurately than the average store manager could hope to do . |