Example sentences of "far [adj -er] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , some companies have noticed these deficiencies and introduced high carbohydrate bars which offer a far healthier balance of carbohydrate to fat . |
| 2 | The share of total energy usage accounted for by nuclear power will rise from 4% to 7% , a far lower level of increase than might have been achieved but for the Three Mile Island incident . |
| 3 | They often receive a far lower standard of care than patients in this country . |
| 4 | The missiles would come next ; and from then on it would be a far lower percentage of surveillance aircraft which returned safely . |
| 5 | Oral sex has a far lower risk of transmission . |
| 6 | This is no less true in the surveying profession , and those who were once concerned only with the responsibility of quality control and personal time apportionment will have found that a position of seniority in an expanding work sector now requires a far broader range of management skills . |
| 7 | Far be it for me to say that this is the sort of budget that conservatives ought to applaud because it is after all , a budget that is guided by a feeling that councils should provide services and they should orientate their services to the least communities , to be guided by equal opportunities and by egalitarians and that 's what this group has always stood for , this is the budget that we present tonight and I would hope that it would get a far better and far larger measure of support than perhaps of course been the case in the past . |
| 8 | In Europe we have to strike a balance between the needs of the audience in the hall and the requirement to communicate effectively to a far larger audience through television . |
| 9 | ‘ The obvious symmetrical properties of sea shells indicate the operation of a far deeper principle in nature than previously thought , one that could have far reaching implications for Science in general . ’ |
| 10 | Helping an elderly parent through her sorrow can be a long , hard haul , but very rewarding in the end — not only in terms of her recovery , but also because , if you find yourself in the same position in later years , you will look back on this experience you shared with her and find that it has left you with a far deeper understanding of grief , and a greater confidence in the healing power of time to see you through your own period of adjustment to loss . |
| 11 | This gives them a far better chance of survival . |
| 12 | Does the Minister consider it fair that , if a child is born in East Anglia , it has a far better chance of survival than if it is born in Yorkshire or in my region , where we recently lost five intensive care cots ? |
| 13 | common , law offence has proved to be a far better stop upon pornography than the 1959 Act . |
| 14 | Provided we take enough water with us there 's no reason why we should n't be able to hold out for a considerable time in the banqueting hall , which is in a far better situation for defence … and let me remind you that with every passing day , relief comes nearer … perhaps as much as twenty miles nearer with every day 's march … |
| 15 | What use were services that recalled the Crucifixion when there was Timothy Gedge wandering about the place , a far better reminder of waste and destruction ? |
| 16 | For the top and intermediate Party leadership , Hitler 's image stood therefore in far closer relationship to reality than it did for the broad mass of the population . |
| 17 | Even the far faster growth of money wages outside the USA in the years up to 1970 left capital in Europe and Japan with a huge advantage in terms of labour costs ( table 10.5 ) . |
| 18 | With computer analysis it can also reach a far higher level of sophistication than can be achieved by hand methods . |
| 19 | It is generally agreed that retail investors need a far higher level of supervision because of their lack of knowledge and because of the severe consequences of loss . |
| 20 | Even in the urban core where there has been massive population loss associated with slum clearance , there were almost as many dwellings in 1981 as there had been in 1961 and , as Table 3.4 shows , the area now has a far higher standard of amenity . |
| 21 | As can be seen from the explanation of the practicalities of the Optional Procedure , it does require a far higher standard of preparation before proceedings are raised . |
| 22 | People that had once been poor , often virtually on the breadline , were now much more elegantly dressed and had achieved a far higher standard of living . |
| 23 | Thus , when his secretary of the treasury ventured on one occasion to suggest that colonial rule was more efficient than the successor regimes in the newly independent states , the president brusquely retorted that it was his " personal conviction that almost any one of the newborn states of the world would far rather embrace Communism or any other form of dictatorship than accept the political domination of another government even though that brought to each citizen a far higher standard of living " . |
| 24 | It seems to be generally agreed that young mothers run a far higher risk of isolation and loneliness than their Victorian counterparts . |
| 25 | In addition , Britain 's total housing stock has increased by 2 million units in the past 12 years — a far higher rate of increase than that of the population as a whole . |
| 26 | Is he also aware that bloodstock is subject to a far higher rate of VAT than in this country in France or in Ireland ? |
| 27 | No concerted attempt was made to rectify this major perceived weakness relative to the Tories , although they have a far worse record on unemployment , taxation , interest rates , economic growth , balance of payments and government borrowing relative to national income ( taking into account privatisation proceeds ) than the last Labour government . |
| 28 | The faces of the Argive youths have a more natural look than the Athenian , but the Attic artist has a far stronger grasp of form , of the relation of face to skull . |
| 29 | The economic difficulties of older people are probably a far stronger cause of demoralization than other factors more closely associated with elderly morale , such as illness and pain . |
| 30 | Another writer with a far briefer experience of life under sail , John Masefield , stands by contrast right in the centre of the convention of action and narrative in which the glory of adventure-story lies ; for at least one period of his life Masefield would have agreed , as Conrad would not , that he was a ‘ writer of sea-stories ’ . |