Example sentences of "[was/were] far more [adj] [subord] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their problems were far more complex than any the teacher might have set them . |
| 2 | Preachers now recognized ‘ God is Love ’ as the central truth of the Gospel ’ and saw that ‘ conversion ’ was far more varied than hitherto thought . |
| 3 | They had no idea that the woman they escorted was far more lethal than ever they could hope to be . |
| 4 | What neither the philosophers nor the sociologists seemed to grasp was that Mannheim was interested in a different aspect of knowledge than they were , one which was far more radical than merely arbitrating between truth and falsity . |
| 5 | It is also known that the Indus Valley civilization was far more extensive than formerly realised , embracing areas as far away as the Oxus River , now called Amu Darya , in Central Asia and forming part of the Soviet Afghanistan border on its course . |
| 6 | A tyre like a truck 's loomed up a little way away in the gloom , but it was far more knobbly than any she had seen . |