Example sentences of "[verb] far [adj -er] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Why did you realise at Christmas ? ’ she asked , nuzzling her mouth into his warm neck , and thinking it tasted far better than the doughnut she had been dutifully consuming . |
| 2 | It tasted far worse than I imagine my four-day-old socks would — a memorable moment remembered for the wrong reason , not least for the expression of anguish on Pete 's face as the brew hit his tonsils . |
| 3 | I suspect that the Prime Minister and the other Ministers would agree with our great national poet , William Shakespeare , that ’ Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds . ’ |
| 4 | Still , Auntie could have done far worse than that . |
| 5 | Anyone who wants to learn to paint with oils could do far worse than follow the advice of ‘ the fastest knife in the West ’ , Nancy Kominsky , as MIRANDA FELLOWS found out |
| 6 | ‘ Oh , these woods have seen far worse than Medoc and the Twelve Lords , ’ said Lugh airily , who happened to be listening to this . |
| 7 | The flip-flop , outlined in the first of a series of three press conferences last Wednesday ( with more to come today , Monday ) , turned far messier than it needed to be due largely to DEC 's inability to admit that it had flip-flopped to begin with . |
| 8 | A local rag did a write-up : ‘ As a testimony to their good eating , they look far younger than their ages ’ . |
| 9 | That 's right , that 's what you said in in you saying that populations were going , growing geometrically agricultural production was going arithmetically , as a result a population crash is inevitable , alright , but we know that is n't true right , because what , when Marthus was writing , erm , Marthus was writing just before in the agricultural revolution in the U K so agricultural technology had n't improved very much in sort of five hundred years right , but in the next hundred years agricultural production , erm , or productivity grows far faster than erm , than population . |
| 10 | The record companies say the price premium is justified because CDs are more durable and sound far better than tapes . |
| 11 | It is also rather moving today to see Dustin easily managing , with some help from adept make-up , to look far younger than his years , at the dawn of stardom . |
| 12 | So we proceeded on a cost plus basis , also the cost plus environment actually brings the partners together because if there are three of us working on a cost plus contract and I have a problem , my two partners rush to help me because clearly there 's some more profit for them , erm if the only difficulty with cost plus contract of course is that unless you have a a real ceiling on the total er costs that you 're going to pay , it may keep on rising far higher than you 'd ever imagined . |
| 13 | okay , well one last thing , I start with the last thing at the beginning , strangely , I mean you 're obviously getting all the technical details and all the expertise from people who know far better than I do , so I 'm not going to go into much technical detail until perhaps a bit later , which might come up if we get a debate going or when I look at your press releases . |
| 14 | That book sounds far better than the last one . |
| 15 | ( 5200 over 24 months sounds far worse than 50 per week . |
| 16 | It is worth noting that some men in veterinary practice at that time became far richer than Coleman ( who was worth £47,000 at his death ) . |
| 17 | Yet even when ( or if ) Silo is sorted out , its profit margins ( and its costs ) will remain far lower than its UK counterpart 's . |
| 18 | But 19-year-old Smith has already jumped far higher than Grant this year , including 2.33 for his club in his first competitive outing two weeks ago . |
| 19 | The refusal this week by Virginia Bottomley , the new Health Secretary , to outlaw ‘ gagging clauses ’ in health workers ' contracts raises alarm about the climate of fear in British society that goes far wider than the NHS . |
| 20 | Certainly , the social psychoanalysis of the oral aspects of the cultural superego seems far easier than the corresponding attempts to analyse pre-Oedipal oral superego elements in the development of the child where the crucial phenomena have occurred long before the acquisition of language , and where analytic ‘ reconstructions ’ are more likely to reflect the theoretical expectations of the analyst than they do the reality . |
| 21 | They had been shocked by the dummy , which they thought far worse than the Hayling one . |
| 22 | But of course the minister in his speech earlier went far wider than that er he seemed to imply that it was n't just er th er duty on the accountant er acting in capa his capacity as an auditor but er the the accountant would have the same duty if acting as an accountant , tax advisor or indeed in any other capacity . |
| 23 | Clearly they thought that Solomon in all his glory looked far better than anything which was likely to be found growing in a field . |
| 24 | But his 1971 season was ruined by an uncompetitive March 713 and by the beginnings of his reputation as Hunt-the-Shunt , including a spectacular accident at Zandvoort which looked far worse than it actually turned out to be . |
| 25 | Things will seem far worse than they actually are for a few days — but once the drama dies down you 'll see you 're in a fine position after all . |
| 26 | One problem which proved far greater than anticipated was where no option was marked on the screening card . |
| 27 | Invariably the cure proved far worse than the disease . ’ |
| 28 | Those who took his rewards , however , proved far cannier than their monarch . |
| 29 | A regular survey carried out by IFO , a research institute , shows that business confidence has slipped slightly in recent months , but it still remains far higher than at any time in the 1980s . |
| 30 | Opinion polls in Poland show that Ms Suchocka 's standing with the voters remains far higher than with their elected representatives . |