Example sentences of "far [adj] [subord] the [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The bridge of the Simonova was far larger than the Navy pattern to which he had become accustomed . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Although there was no visible difference in china , we felt it was cleaner because the water was far hotter than the hand could bear . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | Agreement tends to be far better when the electronegativity difference between the two ions is high . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The result , however , has been that the number of jobs created has been far smaller than the number of jobs lost . |
| 13 | This and other transformations , rendered in the beautiful Technicolor of the 1940s ( which has faded far less than the colour processes of the 1950s and '60s ) , call on the state-of-the-art technology of the period , which still looks very sophisticated . |
| 14 | Furthermore , positioning of this fragment upstream of the HSV-tk gene promoter stimulates transcription 2–3 times over control values , far less than the activity observed for this fragment in the homologous promoter , indicating that full activity of this fragment requires sequences located in the proximal part of the promoter . |
| 15 | The London County Council had found that it simply was not worth trying to recover the cost of milk from the 25% of London parents whose income was high enough to make them liable for the full billeting contribution , since ‘ the few pounds they had succeeded in recovering over a period of several months were far less than the cost of its collection ’ . |
| 16 | In practice materials generally only reach a small fraction of their theoretical strength before they break and so the release of strain energy is usually far less than the energy which would be provided by an equivalent weight of explosive . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | They seem to have their origin in Judaism far more than the rest of the book . |
| 21 | Disadvantages : If there 's a last-minute emergency , you may find yourself without a sitter ; you have to watch out that neither side abuses the bargain you 've made by going out far more than the other . |
| 22 | To the primary teacher " teaching resources " mean far more than the school textbook . |
| 23 | At the beginning of the play she persuades Edwy to reject offers of peace from the rebellious monks who are , in fact , her enemies far more than the king 's . |
| 24 | All told , the borough conducted 592 swap deals , related to some £6 billion of underlying debt , far more than the council had actually borrowed . |
| 25 | That brief confrontation with Luke Calder had unsettled her far more than the incident in the garage , if she was honest . |
| 26 | Holyfield , in fact , left heavyweight boxing with far more than the sport 's historians will allow him to take from it following Friday night 's stunning defeat by Riddick Bowe . |
| 27 | We got lots of international media coverage , far more than the Queen would have got without us , and again we were very well supported by the Dutch people . |
| 28 | By the time it arrived , and the plans were clearly far more than the government could afford , winning the election took priority over admitting to economic reality . |
| 29 | The famous German raid on Coventry on the night of 14 November 1940 brought widespread devastation and civilian demoralisation ( such that a cordon had to be thrown round the city , and news from it heavily censored ) ; likewise , the bombing of the East End of London intimidated its inhabitants far more than the government dared admit at the time . |
| 30 | Far more than the man had been denied was pressed upon him . |