Example sentences of "far [adv] [adj] [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time those concerns were far less significant than they were to become in the late 1970s , and reorganization was actually accompanied by a substantial increase in local authority spending . |
| 2 | Thus , major changes in oceans with consequent major changes in base level seem far less improbable than they did previously . |
| 3 | And from the beginning of interest in user education the literature has offered many examples of programmes of library user education for schoolchildren , even when school libraries were far less common than they are today . |
| 4 | These make it far less likely that they will dive vertically for hundreds of feet if the pilot pushes forwards on the stick . |
| 5 | No doubt conditions today are far more egalitarian than they were in the nineteenth century , but then only a privileged few had the vote . |
| 6 | The relationship between sound , symbol , and position in a word are far more consistent than they may appear . |
| 7 | And once it arrives , city officials ought to be held far more accountable than they are today for what they spend and how . |
| 8 | The fire researchers can not say why the smoke behaves as it does — only that the movement is far more complex than they believed . |
| 9 | Carol , the Cookery Editor , was still down with chicken-pox , according to Barry , the husband they had thought she was divorcing , and with whose prowess on the orgasm front they were all far more familiar than they wished to be . |
| 10 | Henry VII continued this exploitation of the Crown estates , which were far more extensive than they had been in 1433 . |
| 11 | The circle of friends and acquaintances with which the farm worker surrounded himself consisted predominantly of other farm workers , both at work — where , as we have seen , workers were far more gregarious than they are today — and in the village , where most of their neighbours would also work on the land . |
| 12 | Bill Walker , MP for Tayside North , said the political implications of rejecting Rosyth were ‘ far more horrendous than they are in the South West . ’ |
| 13 | When she was Prime Minister , relations with the United States and in particular he personal contacts with President Reagan , were far more special than they are now . |
| 14 | If one considers hierarchical assemblies in general , their evolution from their constituents is far more likely if they consist of relatively stable sub-assemblies which themselves are evolutionary products of an earlier period . |
| 15 | Between Charles and Diana there was too little , and from their gangs of friends , far too much as they queued up to blame one side or the other . |
| 16 | She was suddenly far too aware that they were alone and would n't be disturbed until morning , too aware that the man whose overpowering masculine strength filled the room was her husband and had certain rights , too aware that the last frail layer of her protective façade had been shattered forever when she had wept in his arms and let him comfort her . |