Example sentences of "[vb -s] far [adj] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This interrelation of various disciplines is fundamental to science : the word ‘ science ’ itself derives from a Latin word meaning ‘ knowledge ’ — a term that embraces far more than the circumscribed disciplines just mentioned . |
| 2 | You know , Harry , I get the impression he takes far more than a professional interest in Alice . |
| 3 | That book sounds far better than the last one . |
| 4 | As we have seen , this involves far more than the language being used ; it involves pre-existent knowledge of the world . |
| 5 | The refusal this week by Virginia Bottomley , the new Health Secretary , to outlaw ‘ gagging clauses ’ in health workers ' contracts raises alarm about the climate of fear in British society that goes far wider than the NHS . |
| 6 | The advanced study of History demands far more than a retentive memory for facts or an ability to describe fluently the course of an historical event . |
| 7 | Certainly , the social psychoanalysis of the oral aspects of the cultural superego seems far easier than the corresponding attempts to analyse pre-Oedipal oral superego elements in the development of the child where the crucial phenomena have occurred long before the acquisition of language , and where analytic ‘ reconstructions ’ are more likely to reflect the theoretical expectations of the analyst than they do the reality . |
| 8 | The Church has to be the voice of the voiceless , but that means far more than the cardinal and bishops making statements . |
| 9 | But drinking too much over a period of months or years damages far more than the nervous system . |