Example sentences of "far [adj] than [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Caesar was probably far nearer than God for most of them . |
| 2 | Mikael Shields , of BBC Enterprises , said : ‘ Children are far quicker than adults at spotting and rejecting cases of racism and stoutism . ’ |
| 3 | Control of interest rates loomed far larger than control of money supply . |
| 4 | Some designs are far better than others regarding the linkages associated with this control . |
| 5 | IBOA members in Britain fully realise this situation and have taken it on board in recent years by accepting pay settlements which were far less than increases in the Retail Price Index . |
| 6 | It is a measure of the importance we now attach to sport , that although few either know or care who the latest Minister of Sport is , we pay our national team bosses far more than members of the Cabinet . |
| 7 | Thus although the term ‘ Messiah ’ simply meant ‘ the anointed one ’ , or ‘ king ’ , the concept of kingship it implied involved far more than concepts of kingship do today . |
| 8 | Your personality and style and what you can do matter far more than letters after your name . |
| 9 | Discipleship is far more than initiation into a particular congregation or even accepting the terms of membership prescribed by a particular denomination . |
| 10 | Scientific research has shown that crystals are far more than clusters of beautiful , but inanimate , minerals . |
| 11 | ‘ Uneven development ’ relates to far more than numbers of jobs and levels of unemployment . |
| 12 | However , elite collusion can and does entail far more than agreement on the ‘ rules of the game ’ . |
| 13 | Due to the technical matching of microwave power output to cavity size , to ensure an even heat pattern , the standard model has 1425W and the Gastronorm delivers 2000w which is quite clearly far higher than models in that grey area of low powered domestic equivalents which masquerade as being suitable for commercial premises . |