Example sentences of "far [adj] [noun sg] [conj] they " in BNC.

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1 It was as though everyone had dashed off on a far bigger , far better story than they had covered in their lives .
2 But frankly when people marry it 's often a far better thing if they do n't love each other .
3 The teaching of deaf children by oral methods alone was not new ; the earliest teachers of the deaf such as Dr. William Holder and Dr. John Wallis tried it in the 1660s with ( as evidence shows ) far less success than they wrote about in the publications which earned them fame .
4 Most of the people I went with took mountain bikes and they envied me the Pioneer as I sped along with far less effort that they had to use .
5 The charity argues that in return those parents deserve far more support than they currently receive .
6 Some instruments receive far more prominence than they do in more everyday tunes , others get merely the lightest , occasional touch .
7 In truth defectors are far more trouble than they are worth .
8 Several subjects reported that they felt that they would be able to give far more information if they were permitted to recall the junctions in the order in which they had been driven .
9 Slicker though Swansea were , Harlequins gained more than enough possession through their dominance at the line-out and the innumerable penalties to have expected more from the game — certainly New Zealand 's All Blacks will drive a far harder bargain when they play Swansea on 21 October .
10 If ‘ community care ’ is not to result in increased impoverishment and dependency for women care-givers ( with all the possible long-term adverse consequences for their own old age ) , then employment and social security policies and the provision of ‘ community care ’ services have to be integrated to a far greater extent than they are at present .
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