Example sentences of "[verb] far [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She may feel far better leaving the bureau with details of a local self-help group for single parents and information about local child-care facilities . |
| 2 | she has n't moved far then has she ? |
| 3 | We keep the trees erm they 're on about the trees are mature well my suggestion is there 's a lot of councillors that are very mature and really they could do far better getting eleven spindly new younger councillors to make these decisions on behalf of all the public tax payers in Nottingham . |
| 4 | They ca n't see far enough to make out the hollow . ’ |
| 5 | The Bundesbank can be — and has been — criticised for not going far enough to stimulate the German economy . |
| 6 | The changing trend of shareholdings was clear until 1981 — individuals were owning far less compared with insurance companies , pension funds and trusts . |
| 7 | We climbed far enough to find some specimens of the Mount Cook lily ( which is n't a lily at all , but a giant buttercup found only at altitude in this part of the South Island ) , and while the others rested I went across to investigate a steep track up a snow-filled gully . |
| 8 | I 'd just got far enough to notice |
| 9 | I get far more offended going to Goodison and hearing those animals doing gorilla impressions than anything else Ive ever heard . |
| 10 | ‘ Homme qui tombe ’ a rare bronze by Giacometti from the collection of Richard and Dorothy Rodgers , which passed through London dealer Thomas Gibson 's hands in 1987 at $750,000 , sold far above estimate for $1.35 million ( £900,000 ) . |
| 11 | The question is whether prices and mortgage rates have fallen far enough to ensure that this position will be reached in the near future . |
| 12 | well it ai n't run far enough has it ? |
| 13 | I felt far more threatened now . |
| 14 | And I know what Briant is doing , and why , and though I do n't go all the way with him , I go far enough to want to come in on his side . |
| 15 | Sympathy was with the generals rather than the Prime Minister , hardly surprisingly in view of past events , but sympathy never went far enough to weaken Lloyd George 's position greatly . |
| 16 | It is now clear that the King had the gravest doubts about the general suitability of his heir for the Throne , and that these doubts went far enough to turn his mind towards the desirability of getting his second son to succeed instead . |
| 17 | Although para 8(a) of FRS1 refers to ss 248 and 249 CA 1985 , it does not go far enough to state properly whether the exemption does in effect apply to a small group . |
| 18 | While his conclusions may be correct — and we discuss this at greater length in the next chapter — his evidence , unfortunately , does not go far enough to give weight to them . |
| 19 | It believes that audit committees and the obligatory rotation of audit partners may not go far enough to convince the public of their independence , and suggests that shareholders should be more involved in appointing auditors , determining the scope of the audit , and in the decision to obtain other services from the auditing firm . |
| 20 | Steps were taken to reduce capacity : shifts were cut and shod time introduced but these measures did not go far enough to balance supply and demand . |
| 21 | In these circumstances our concerns are not that community care changes are a step too far , but that they will not go far enough to produce radical change . |
| 22 | X-rays can detect only big tumours , and bronchoscopes — flexible fibre-optic cables which relay pictures from the inside of the lungs to the outside world — only see those that have spread far enough to wrinkle the lining of the lung . |
| 23 | The TARDIS materialized under an arched portico , its sound not carrying far enough to attract anyone 's attention . |
| 24 | In 1970 , the State Ministry of Education wisely recommended a reintroduction of Hausa medium in lower classes , but this proved far easier said than done . |
| 25 | Computerworld interprets IBM 's willingness to make public its plans for OS/2 3.0 as the latest advance in the clash with Microsoft Corp : having lost out in the personal computer operating system game , where OS/2 is lagging far behind compared with MS-DOS and Windows , IBM is trying to position the next generation OS/2 competitively against Microsoft 's forthcoming NT operating system . |
| 26 | This is shown here ( Fig. 1.4B ) for the premaxillary suture , which is in the process of opening but has not yet proceeded far enough to destroy the integrity of the skull . |
| 27 | Despite the current fear of AIDS and the moral backlash increasingly in evidence in the late eighties , most callers now take far less persuading that homosexuality can be part of a valid lifestyle . |
| 28 | She had refused to sign the treaty recognizing Elizabeth as legitimate Queen of England , still considering her far from legitimate ; yet , once returned to Scotland , she compromised far enough to say that she would accept Elizabeth 's tenure during her lifetime on the understanding that her own eventual right to the succession was acknowledged . |
| 29 | The privilege would not stretch to reports of fresh statements made by speakers after the protected meeting has been closed , although it has been held that it does extend far enough to allow those who have spoken in the course of the meeting to repeat their privileged statements to reporters afterwards so that the latter may check the accuracy of their notes . |
| 30 | Nick Champion of Russell , Baldwin and Bright Markets , who run it on the four Tuesdays prior to Christmas and sell several tons a year , says dealers are having to travel far afield to collect mistletoe to sell at Tenbury . |