Example sentences of "[verb] far [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As with all the Fairy Basslets that this species will flourish far better when kept in pairs , individuals often displaying a mere shadow of their potential . |
| 2 | International trade in goods was liberalised far sooner than that in financial services . |
| 3 | She had never been pushed academically , although there is no doubt she had the intelligence to have done far better than she ever did . |
| 4 | Some of her friends had fairly eccentric ideas of bed-sitter decoration , and had done far better than the Chianti-bottle , British Railway-poster effort , but none of them had ever conceived of anything like this : and the nicest room she had ever seen had been the drawing room of a friend 's mother in Sevenoaks , which had been distinguished by a bare and gentle colour scheme , and some pretty Georgian furniture . |
| 5 | Ardeshir Zahedi had done far better than that . |
| 6 | ‘ Actually , you 've done far better than I expected . |
| 7 | The modern tail and underwater shapes will enable you to make progress in stronger wind and sail far quicker than if you use a wide square-tailed board with a flat bottom . |
| 8 | Instead of paying cash for each chance accepted would charity not benefit far more if 50p was paid for each dropped catch and missed stumping ? |
| 9 | It was her first Party conference , and she was certain she could do far better than them . |
| 10 | Those countries which were protesting about the repatriation would do far better if they offered to take some of the boat people themselves . |
| 11 | All right for Jazz , cap or not , for his dark body had a natural grace and he could swim far better than anyone had suspected . |
| 12 | If the island did become detached in the way he suggests , then the mountainous regions in the south would have been separated far longer than the northern parts . |
| 13 | If you 're selling cars , you 've got a guarantee warranty with it , and I think most customers are misled into believing that those guarantees and warranties cover far more than they do in fact . |
| 14 | Surprisingly , supermarket products fared far better than specialist varieties . |
| 15 | In retrospect , one can see far better than even he could see at the time how deeply the logic of the ‘ New Theology ’ , biblical and historical rather than scholastic , was bound to challenge the whole shape of the contemporary Church and the way it perceived orthodoxy . |
| 16 | erm it might well look like that for that very small piece of graph , but the overall picture you 've lost completely by not going far enough so you , you want minus infinity to plus infinity . |
| 17 | He shook his head , unperturbed it seemed , not in the least put out yet altogether immovable , a man whose quiet strength struck Daniel suddenly as impressive , a steadily burning , dogged persistence which would be likely to endure far longer than his own vivid bursts of fire . |
| 18 | This was not what Marian wanted , for they had worked out that the smoke of the outlaws , main Camp must be nearly two days march away and help and shelter for Hugh was needed far quicker than that . |
| 19 | But one thing has been proved by frequent controlled tests ; not only does the absorption of the substance into the system reduce the mental powers of the individual to a greater or lesser degree , but other problems arise because he imagines that he is actually able to function far better than usual . |
| 20 | They 've had far more than what we 've ever had |
| 21 | But Steven Morrissey 's Manchester was rooted far deeper than the élitist circle of rock music . |
| 22 | If we are accused of structuring a massive bid proposal to expressly favour G Tec , and if G Tec end up being the only bidder we should expect to encounter major public relations and or legal problems , and we could end up paying far more than we had anticipated for the needed goods and services . |
| 23 | I was much too shy ; they could all draw far better than I could . |
| 24 | Although Chancellor Kohl later agreed to an apparent compromise it was clear even then — how much more so now — that West Germany had killed the programme , and it had done so because it sensed far better than any of its Nato partners how completely President Gorbachev had changed the situation in Europe . |
| 25 | Exile from the West Country was to last far longer than Coleridge can have expected . |
| 26 | Trouble is , I do n't know what he 'd do - " He broke off suddenly and turned his head away , whispering , " My father , my father , my father … " in a way so bitter and desperate that she turned to him and held him ; and although they had already stayed far longer than on previous nights , she had a sudden foreboding of events , so that she needed to love him again , now ; and a little while later , without thinking of the danger , she cried out with the joy of him : a single shriek in the night that echoed in the trees below the house and was followed by a strange , almost tangible silence . |
| 27 | A price is agreed in advance and even if the project takes far longer than initially planned , there will be no extra charge . |
| 28 | ‘ I can understand it , even if I do n't like to think of her moving far away unless I get a personal recommendation about whoever takes her on . ’ |
| 29 | The pace of change that arms control has to match in Eastern Europe can not be predicted , but it shows every sign of moving far faster than Nato can respond . |
| 30 | around the m around the Mansfield =field , and these Children , at School they know far more than I do at my age I think . |