Example sentences of "far more [adj] [conj] they " 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 | The relationship between sound , symbol , and position in a word are far more consistent than they may appear . |
3 | And once it arrives , city officials ought to be held far more accountable than they are today for what they spend and how . |
4 | The fire researchers can not say why the smoke behaves as it does — only that the movement is far more complex than they believed . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | Henry VII continued this exploitation of the Crown estates , which were far more extensive than they had been in 1433 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | Bill Walker , MP for Tayside North , said the political implications of rejecting Rosyth were ‘ far more horrendous than they are in the South West . ’ |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |