Example sentences of "[noun sg] would [vb infin] [be] far " in BNC.

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1 Egg theft would have been far worse had it not been for round-the-clock protection from the army at the end of the season .
2 A half-inch of pop in the bottom of a wide mouthed beaker would have been far better .
3 If governments had not run such deficits then the slump would have been far deeper , since the deficits worked partially to offset the collapse in demand which resulted from the big increase in OPEC savings and fall in investment .
4 Actually , one of him leaping into the canyon would have been far more spectacular .
5 This was really unnecessary , since a body would have been far too decomposed after eight to ten days to be of much use to any medical school .
6 In any case , wings which could have lifted that huge body would have been far too cumbersome when diving .
7 ‘ We 've proved we can do it , and we 're more innovative at the moment than the Americans , ’ says Steve , who admits his career would have been far more difficult without the success of groups like Soul II Soul .
8 The Army has done a grand job of work in the initial stages of rehabilitation , and without its aid progress would have been far slower .
9 He argued that the money spent on the national curriculum would have been far better spent on circulating information about books and encouraging teachers to use them .
10 Of course if Sarah had n't been a friend of the Princess of Wales the situation would have been far more difficult in the early stages .
11 The whole manoeuvre would have been far safer if the leaper did not touch the horns at all , by using either the ‘ Diving Leap ’ or the ‘ Somersault Leap ’ described above .
12 The advocates of such a holistic viewpoint would have been far more willing to accept the need for preserving the complex web of natural relationships , and would thus have gravitated towards the environmentalist movement .
13 His true value would have been far more appreciated if introduced in the first place to more mature minds .
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