Example sentences of "far more [adj] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No doubt conditions today are far more egalitarian than they were in the nineteenth century , but then only a privileged few had the vote . |
| 2 | Despite this lack of data , science popularisers delight in calling Earth an insignificant ‘ speck of dust ’ , and science-fiction writers love to populate the Universe with races far more advanced than ours . |
| 3 | His injuries were far more serious than he had imagined ; he had incurred third-degree burns on his hands and a serious infection had spread into his bloodstream . |
| 4 | Parsley needs far more root-room than it is usually given ; the main or tap root is rather like a small carrot , and this should be allowed for . |
| 5 | One observer at Yeovil said : ‘ Despite Mrs Ashdown 's reluctance to get involved , whenever the opinion polls were announced she was far more demonstrative than she was made out to be . |
| 6 | So you 'll see straight away erm by buying privately your , your legal protection is far more limited than it was before . |
| 7 | So how could he not be far more upset than he would admit at the thought of the gap it would leave in his life and the prospect of probably never seeing his father again ? |
| 8 | Her singing voice is far more impressive than her talking voice ( she 's been to musical theatre college ) , and the songs will be pure pop — ’ Let's be honest , that 's my audience , ’ she says . |
| 9 | And yet , the history of the Lemonheads — in which , five albums down the line , he 's the only constant — suggests he 's something of a control freak , far more fastidious than he seems . |
| 10 | He urged me to look elsewhere — particularly in the fields owned by an old lady at the next farm called Low Birk Hatt , because they were far more colourful than his . |
| 11 | This was far more tricky than it sounds . |
| 12 | The relationship between sound , symbol , and position in a word are far more consistent than they may appear . |
| 13 | The young are more forgiving than adults , and despite the haughty isolation I had practised , I was far more accepted than I could have hoped for . |
| 14 | Erm , wh most of these criticisms would become far more exaggerated or far more relevant if you considered what happens in the real world . |
| 15 | And once it arrives , city officials ought to be held far more accountable than they are today for what they spend and how . |
| 16 | All she had wanted to do was make sure her followers knew she was back on the road to recovery and fit enough to joke " the Scottish people have so amazingly walked into my heart the impact has been far more powerful than I could have imagined " . |
| 17 | He was right behind her , as she knew he would be , but she felt more in command on her feet , even though he was far bigger and far more powerful than she was . |
| 18 | The fire researchers can not say why the smoke behaves as it does — only that the movement is far more complex than they believed . |
| 19 | Here is an artist for whom sensuality was extraordinarily important , but who will turn out to be emotionally far more complex than we had previously thought . |
| 20 | He is also highly intelligent and far more complex than he likes to be perceived . |
| 21 | I only want to make clear that the problem is far more complex than it is represented . |
| 22 | The result is patterns of support whose basis is probably far more complex than it appears to an outsider and which also perhaps includes the expectation that love and affection themselves will be reciprocated ( Summerfield , 1986 ) . |
| 23 | It makes it far more complex than it should be . |
| 24 | However , when I heard Mr. Gorbachev speaking at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg in 1989 , about a common European home , I could perceive an image of Europe that made me feel far more European than I had ever done before . |
| 25 | ‘ I do n't like sharing my men , ’ she said , intending to sound far more experienced than she was and succeeding . |
| 26 | Because the different zones of the sea are so interlinked — many creatures making use of several in the course of their lives — the ocean environment is far more vulnerable than it at first appears . |
| 27 | Nonetheless , the property market could and should be far more liquid than it is . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Henry VII continued this exploitation of the Crown estates , which were far more extensive than they had been in 1433 . |
| 30 | They expressed surprise at the figures I produced , and they were to be even more surprised in 1973 when a survey far more extensive than mine gave the number as 1,737,000 . |