Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] far [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such approaches , of course , were ordinarily difficult to resist , for a house never knew when royal gratitude might be of value to it in some application of its own or in some lawsuit ; a number of larger houses , like Bury St Edmunds in 1303 , even found themselves accommodating more than one royal corrodian ; furthermore , the recipients of these requests ranged far outside the hundred or so houses of which the king was patron . |
| 2 | Raw flint from the mines as well as finished artefacts were analysed , mainly hoards of flint axeheads found far from the mines , and there were some unexpected results ( fig. 6.5 ) . |
| 3 | Many blacks remained far from contented , yet two factors helped the President 's effort to quieten the racial issue . |
| 4 | But the Jezebel poems went far beyond vilification of Elizabeth . |
| 5 | He did not think that their ambitions extended far into Western Europe but he thought it had been a serious error to let the Russians take Berlin and establish themselves there . |
| 6 | The whistling of the males carried far across the water-logged land , a wild and haunting sound : ‘ Peee-yoo , peee-yoo . ’ |
| 7 | The enactment of both provisions remained far from certain , however , as they were attached to a campaign finance bill which had yet to receive congressional assent and which faced a threatened veto from President Bush . |
| 8 | Cresci was doubtful — these gloomy hills and bruised skies looked far from spectacular . |
| 9 | In a century of imperial expansion it was inevitable that many sons died far from home and not , as they might have wished , in the bosom of the family . |
| 10 | His old friend , the abbot of St Peter 's Abbey in Salzburg , noted that Leopold had been a man of ‘ much wit and wisdom ’ , whose talents went far beyond those of music alone , yet he had ‘ had the misfortune always to be persecuted ’ and was consequently held in less esteem in Salzburg than elsewhere in Europe . |
| 11 | In seeking to understand and present the work of others in his Report on the Theory of Numbers , he had in many cases progressed far beyond them . |
| 12 | Another important feature of the election was the relatively weak showing of the extreme right-wing Republicans ( Republikaner ) , who gained seats in several councils for the first time but whose votes lagged far behind those obtained in the European elections in June 1989 and forecast in recent opinion-poll findings . |