Example sentences of "[vb past] [ex0] be far " in BNC.

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1 Like the Channel Four programme on Thursday , which explores the secret life of the photocopier , John 's workshops showed there is far more to the machine than duplicating documents and jamming the paper .
2 Some officials , especially in the lightly-populated dry zone , thought there were far too many useless cattle .
3 Dr. Watkinson said there were far more former Selborne residents than Whitehill residents in the Blackmoor churchyard .
4 This is believed to be the first time that such a report has been made from Scotland through the Scottish Office to Europe under the EC nitrates directive and Mr Buchan , vice chairman of the River Board said there were far reaching implications .
5 The latest , a Government-sponsored inquiry by Professor Gordon Higginson , vice-chancellor of Southampton University , concluded there were far too many A-level syllabuses , and that they were stuffed too full with information .
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