Example sentences of "[noun pl] be far [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Speaking personally , my own view is that reputable City institutions are far too ready to temper the wind to slick operators like Ingard . |
| 2 | The American commanders are far more gung-ho than the politicians in Washington , and pressure mounts for an all-out attack on the enemy , including massive air strikes . |
| 3 | No , my reasons are far more physical : His one-time wife was none other than Marilyn Monroe ! |
| 4 | Surely , if scientists , whose work is in the public domain and open to critical scrutiny , are prone to distortion , the police must be many times more vulnerable , seeing that police investigations are far less structured and not at all open to outside scrutiny . |
| 5 | Conservative policies are far more forward-looking and visionary . |
| 6 | Sons are far less likely to follow their fathers or other male relatives into the same occupations or places of work . |
| 7 | Sons are far less likely to follow their fathers or other male relatives into the same occupations or places of work . |
| 8 | But where , as often , there is no such difference , the fact that adverbs are far more common than adjectives in structures where a property extends a verb will discourage speakers from using the adjectival form . |
| 9 | Because mature teeth are far less complex , biologically , than most tissues , restoration of their shape and function has been straightforward and David Watts discusses the use of certain polymers and composites for this purpose . |
| 10 | Current business and strategy proposals are far too simplistic , say the authors — IBM must cannibalize its products , migrate user to micros and develop new architectures around PowerPC and Intel chip , porting the software systems and applications that are still competitive to new hardware and operating systems . |
| 11 | By comparison , Kenya 's five-year plans are far behind in specifying a strategy . |
| 12 | the roads are far too busy for me now , I used to drive , but not now . |
| 13 | Everyone is a guest , non-Leeds fans are far less likely to be tolerated coming out with anti-Leeds stuff . |
| 14 | Your methods are far more subtle , and far more effective . ’ |
| 15 | Ethical considerations are far more difficult to rationalist . |
| 16 | often , the journalists are far more neurotic and insecure than you are . |
| 17 | ‘ Evidence seems to suggest that young drivers are far more likely to have accidents , which is not surprising because they are very inexperienced , ’ he says . |
| 18 | Back-bench Members of Parliament whether of government or opposition parties are far more removed from questions of policy and administration than are councillors who discuss these matters through a series of committees and subcommittees . |
| 19 | And there , as someone else said , erm earlier , organizing their party , the day of their life which happens to be also their wedding day , and those sort of parties are far more fun to work at than the far more stilted family affairs that do happen for younger people . |
| 20 | At the very top end of the price scale the savings are far more dramatic , with Italian exotica such as Ferrari and Lamborghini having suffered some of the greatest losses of all . |
| 21 | The emphasis is very much on the hope of betterment and opportunity , the town offers a fluid situation , where the chance of improvement may arise , unlike the countryside , where opportunities are far more limited . |
| 22 | At home our relationships are far more strained by not expressing our feelings than by the silent death of suppressing them . |
| 23 | The stables were far more primitive than Perdita expected . |
| 24 | There were no correlations between the clouds and known weapons tests , and in any case the 200-mile-long plumes were far too large . |
| 25 | Leaked accounts say it finds that army units were far more deeply involved in the repression than were the navy , the air force or the police , whose chiefs have all taken command since the coup of 1973 . |
| 26 | Yet the survey also found the same drivers were far more likely to drive badly and to flout the law . |
| 27 | It has n't stopped him making guest appearances and recordings with western orchestras , and he is no longer in a position where he 's asked only to conduct Russian music — ‘ Berlioz and Beethoven with British orchestras were far more interesting propositions for me than , for example , Tchaikovsky , because you remember too much the way Russian orchestras play Tchaikovsky with the huge sound and the heaviness and the passion ’ . |
| 28 | The European nations were far too absorbed in their own conflict to give heed to China 's concerns . |
| 29 | Thorneycroft insisted , like Sandys before him over the TSR 2 , that economies should be made by the Navy and RAF using the same airframe for their future supersonic fighter , but he was equally unsuccessful : the requirements for the two environments were far too far apart . |
| 30 | The sins were far too wicked to be named , Henry had answered with a confidential glance at Lettice who held her dainty hands at her mouth , wide-eyed . |