Example sentences of "far [adj] [noun] than [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far as Balfour was concerned , Zionism was ‘ of far profounder import than the desire and prejudices of the 700,000 Arabs who now inhabit that ancient land [ of Palestine ] ’ . |
| 2 | However , no thermally formed vortices have been observed , and if they were they would theoretically be on a far larger scale than the spacing of the longitudinal dunes ( Mabbutt , 1 977 ) . |
| 3 | But they live in a physically impoverished environment which provides far fewer amenities than the average long-stay ward — the cost is often less than a third that of a hospital bed . |
| 4 | Tai chi has far fewer styles than the hand system of kung fu , only a handful in fact . |
| 5 | Interestingly enough I also heard recently that takes patients from a private hospital , the , because they can give far better treatment than the private sector . |
| 6 | I do n't think either , given the succession of scandals and the aura of sleaze hanging over the Secretary of State 's quango sector that anyone would deny that in terms of value for money and financial probity , direct democratic control is a far better watchdog than the financial control systems of the Welsh office . |
| 7 | The unspoken subtext of Barley 's amusing odyssey in search of Raffles is this : was all western imperialism really so bad , and were not men like Raffles far better rulers than the exploiters , white and brown , who came before and after them ? |
| 8 | ‘ Camels go on and on and on until they die ; and then one has the option of eating them , altogether far better tasting than a Michelin tyre , ’ writes Rene Dee in The Traveller 's Handbook . |
| 9 | The attackers had far better titles than the supporters ; but the scope for emotive , impassioned language was the same for both sides . |
| 10 | At the same time , an experienced solicitor may well be able to give a better legal opinion and be a far better advocate than a beginner at the Bar . |
| 11 | Half of the salary disappeared in mess fees and for the headquarter 's servants , but Sharpe still felt rich , and it was a far better reward than the two shillings and ninepence a day that he had been receiving as a half-pay lieutenant . |
| 12 | His rank was way above that of Moore : the Hopes of Hopetoun were far better stock than the Moores of wherever they sprouted up ! |
| 13 | But it was Casaubon who fifty years later imposed Polybius as the expert in political life , as a far better guide than the fashionable Tacitus . |
| 14 | Could three or four large water tanks and some carefully arranged bricks or pots produce far better results than the usual tanks in your fishhouse ? |
| 15 | Does he agree that if the distribution of Government grant were seen to be fair , local residents would not only be able to assess the performance of local authorities but would begin to see that our new council tax is a far better deal than the uncosted return to the rates — or , even worse , the uncosted local income tax — proposed by the Opposition parties ? |
| 16 | ‘ I think he is now a far better player than the youngster we threw in at the deep end against Wales last season . |
| 17 | A company swimming pool is a far better investment than an extravagant advertising campaign . |
| 18 | A relatively old rug that has been well looked after may be in far better condition than a newer item that has seen less considerate use , and some contemporary items are deliberately made to look old by the use of chemical washes ( p. 27 ) . |
| 19 | I mention that this mechanical bird has three blades because we have here something of great importance for a photographer — the three blades are designed to give a far smoother ride than the two-bladed machine , and because of this it is possible to shoot at a speed as low as 125th of a second . |
| 20 | You 'll find that quite often this sort of selective improvement will give a room the new look it needs for far less money than a drastic change-around . |
| 21 | Until the 1980s the killing of 2000 or so pilot whales each year in the Faroe Islands was considered to be of far less significance than the slaughter of tens of thousands of the much rarer great whale species . |
| 22 | When William Joyce ( ‘ Lord Haw-Haw ’ ) began his revulsion felt by the British public , if the reaction was not mirthful , was due to the fact that he was , in a sense , a stranger to them by reason of his apostasy and unnatural situation and therefore he carried far less conviction than a less articulate but sincere German would have done . |
| 23 | The motor skills domain has received far less attention than the cognitive and affective , and objectives in this field are perhaps best devised from a study of the way skills are learned . |
| 24 | The quiteron works in a similar way , although the energy gaps involved are about a thousand time smaller than for semiconductors — several milli-electronvolts ( take out the word electron to arrive at the corresponding driving voltages ) , This difference is behind the quiteron 's big advantage : it dissipates far less power than the conventional device . |
| 25 | A chip built with quiterons would need to lose far less heat than a conventional one , so the devices could be more closely packed on a chip . |
| 26 | This design of eye reveals far less detail than a camera eye . |
| 27 | Customers , or suppliers , or competitors , or even what is going on in the outside world , seem of far less importance than the endless struggle to achieve and operate the perfect bureaucracy . |
| 28 | See , she 's got far more go than the others , ’ Gary said proudly . |
| 29 | What I suggest to you is far more officers than the three you gave evidence of perhaps five or even the full six at some stage found their way into that master bedroom . |
| 30 | He gave them far more money than the business was worth or than they should ever have got their hands on . |