Example sentences of "[vb past] far [adj] [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Why did you realise at Christmas ? ’ she asked , nuzzling her mouth into his warm neck , and thinking it tasted far better than the doughnut she had been dutifully consuming . |
| 2 | The celebration of the martyr 's anniversary had grown out of the commemoration of the departed dead ; but it soon outgrew the limits of its origins and became far more than the expression of that larger family solidarity which embraced heaven and earth . |
| 3 | He did not believe that long discussion was of great value , rather that a considered insight or idea produced far more than a wealth of verbal expression . |
| 4 | He needed far more than the normal ration of two parents , each with only one identity apiece . |
| 5 | This implied far more than the juridical observation that the Holy Spirit would ‘ assist ’ the Ecumenical Council . |
| 6 | The submergence of North Africa beneath the tide of Islam in the seventh century meant far more than the loss of one of the most intellectually vital parts of the Latin church . |
| 7 | They had been shocked by the dummy , which they thought far worse than the Hayling one . |
| 8 | Hilton interprets ‘ new mind ’ or ‘ new feeling ’ as the creation of contemplation , which now demanded far more than the old Benedictine ideal where the monk did not experience God in the achievement of higher states of consciousness but in the mundane details of daily life . |
| 9 | Invariably the cure proved far worse than the disease . ’ |