Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] far [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This uneven distribution produces anomalies far more obvious than those in England or even Wales ( Alexander 1982a : 125 — 131 ) . |
| 2 | Butter also presented problems far too complicated for mass production . |
| 3 | The discworld offers sights far more impressive than those found in universes built by Creators with less imagination but more mechanical aptitude . |
| 4 | Assimilation in play has allowed the child greatly to improve its powers of abstraction in space and time ; that is , to imagine objects far away in both of these dimensions ( see also Vygotsky 1978 : 92–104 ) . |
| 5 | Alderly has had owners far more distinguished than its Georgian creator . |
| 6 | Large chains can keep track of shoppers ' preferences daily , enabling central merchandisers to predict selling trends far more accurately than the average store manager could hope to do . |
| 7 | My wages of twenty-five shillings ( £1.25 ) a week did not permit birdwatching trips far afield and , although I was fairly keen and competent , I was bounded by pretty narrow horizons ! |
| 8 | And in The Sea of Faith , Don Cupitt , Lecturer in Divinity and Dean of Emmanuel College , Cambridge , presented perhaps the most penetrating television study yet undertaken of Christianity today — a study containing statements far more contentious than those of the Bishop of Durham . |
| 9 | If we are considering distances far away from the origin of Fig. 2.3 , i.e. |
| 10 | I could hear voices far away and then something hurt my shoulder . |
| 11 | The processors themselves are linked by a mesh of point-to-point connections , which carry localised traffic between co-operating processors far more efficiently than a shared bus . |
| 12 | The group pioneered the use of Hidden Markov Model techniques and were able to demonstrate performances far better than HARPY ( Bahl et al , 1983 ) . |
| 13 | After the weekend , the Unionist Whips decided that they had taken things far enough , having wasted an entire week of parliamentary time and given their supporters a sign of the vigour with which the fight was being waged . |
| 14 | Toads are poisonous , too , but like the cobra they prefer not to use their poison except as a last resort , although for a different reason — their poison glands only secrete their lethal dose when the toad is bitten hard by an attacker , and for the toad this is leaving matters far too late , with serious injury a strong possibility . |
| 15 | ‘ The fanatics out there take things far too seriously . |
| 16 | Money is like a body of water ; a pebble dropped in here , a sluice gate opened there , can send ripples or waves that erode coastlines or flood cities far away . |
| 17 | I see things far away , and they 're coming close . |
| 18 | I was called in and told the show was too expensive and was stretching facilities far too greatly for a children 's programme . ’ |