Example sentences of "far [adj -er] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there are a great many people , quite sane , quite balanced , quite worthy of respect , who , in the privacy of their psyches , believe in things far stranger than the divinity of Hernan Cortés . |
| 2 | Also his playing career with us was far shorter than a lot of these blokes . |
| 3 | It will provide massive rebates for those who are worse off ; and it will be welcomed by the majority of the public , who will realise that it is far fairer than the community charge , that it is progressive and that it will work . |
| 4 | In fact the reduction in home trade is far bigger than the reduction paid out exports , and this is accounted for by the ten million reduction paid out now would give a right big fillip to trade . |
| 5 | The bridge of the Simonova was far larger than the Navy pattern to which he had become accustomed . |
| 6 | If we look back at the previous example of the combustion of methane , we see that the enthalpy term was far larger than the entropy term . |
| 7 | Statistics also show that while the crime rate has increased regularly for all groups , the rise in female crime has been far steeper than the rise in male crime . |
| 8 | Although there was no visible difference in china , we felt it was cleaner because the water was far hotter than the hand could bear . |
| 9 | A polite refusal to comment further is far better than a panic reply . |
| 10 | This program is the best of its kind on the market for page making facilities , it is far better than a number of ‘ Commercial ’ pagemaking programs that are popular with users who only have a dot-matrix printer . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | Agreement tends to be far better when the electronegativity difference between the two ions is high . |
| 13 | It would have been far better if a decision on that matter had been taken in Wales . |
| 14 | However , though the only currently practicable approach to identifying rural deprivation was an area based one and although it has been possible to make some sense of census data for rural areas , they still concluded , in line with Knox and Cottam , that it would be far better if the analysis could be performed at the individual level . |
| 15 | Moreover , some of the small bodies that reach the Earth could come from regions of the PFM far colder than the region where the Earth formed . |
| 16 | A cloud far smaller than a man 's hand peeped over the horizon as March began . |
| 17 | The result , however , has been that the number of jobs created has been far smaller than the number of jobs lost . |
| 18 | They were far older than the Tuthanach , probably engendered by the association with the first post-Ice Age forest of the Mesolithic period , ten thousand years or so before the birth of Christ . |
| 19 | As veteran commentator George Melly remarked : ‘ The trad boom was both unexpected and untypical ; its heroes were far older than the norm and had been around for much longer ; the emphasis was instrumental rather than vocal ; the sexual aspect was almost non-existent . ’ |
| 20 | The whole manoeuvre would have been far safer if the leaper did not touch the horns at all , by using either the ‘ Diving Leap ’ or the ‘ Somersault Leap ’ described above . |
| 21 | First , by continual introduction of trees , shrubs , flowers and vegetables a gardener achieves what may be called contrived plant diversity , far higher than the area would support naturally , and rivalling even that of tropical rainforest . |
| 22 | Here the degree of complicity is , and perhaps has to be , far higher than the viewer ever suspects . |
| 23 | Invariably the cure proved far worse than the disease . ’ |
| 24 | Small losses soon accelerated when the U S reported trade gap figures of 9.033 billion dollars , far worse than the city forecast . |
| 25 | It was " far worse than the giveaway at Yalta , " he said . |
| 26 | But inside , this time is far , far worse than the period when I was anorexic . |
| 27 | The diamond survives the impact , usually , because its chemical bonding is far stronger than the bonding in the workpiece . |
| 28 | Our friends , who had gone to investigate the river , quickly decided that the call of the Kinloch Rannoch Hotel was far stronger than the call of April fishing . |
| 29 | There was an unspoken religious respect for another man 's possessions far stronger than the respect for property in normal society and correspondingly more unpleasant . |
| 30 | Addressing the Supreme Soviet during a debate on emergency price curbs , Mr Ryzhkov was far blunter than a man accustomed to the velvety circumlocutions and understatements , second nature to Western central bankers . |