Example sentences of "on a far [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether this is the start of a deliberate confrontation , or the result of bad management of the kind which provoked BBC staff to strike this summer there is every sign that Mr Black wants his staff on a far tighter rein . |
| 2 | To one of those , Taddeo Ugoleto , Matthias gave the care and control of the library : ‘ Ugoleto sought out Greek codexes for the library and copying was carried out on a far greater scale than ever before . |
| 3 | They came in the form of series of explosions on a far greater scale even than any of the preceding ones , and greater than anything that man has experienced before or since . |
| 4 | By the late Saxon period , most settlements occur on the heavier soils ; indeed by that date settlement is found on a far greater variety of soil types . |
| 5 | The first volcanoes to appear on the surface of the cooling planet erupted on a far greater scale than any that we know today , building entire mountain ranges of lava and ash . |
| 6 | This philosophy , though on a far grander scale , can be observed in practice in such great gardens as Sissinghurst in Kent and Hidcote Manor in Gloucestershire , where similar plants and colour combinations have been placed in walled or hedged parts of the larger garden . |
| 7 | ‘ We 've learnt from our past mistakes in approaching Thurrock and Nottingham and we 'll use the experience we gain from Southwell to the full at Telford to build something on a far grander scale , ’ Muddle says confidently . |
| 8 | Not only do they record the history of their localities , they are themselves the product of history , played on a far wider stage . |
| 9 | Regional Hubs are being established in Aberdeen and Singapore and , with a high degree of customer support already committed , we can now expand cost effectively our positioning capabilities into related markets and on a far wider geographic basis . |
| 10 | As you well know our mission statement , Save The Children 's vision , commits us to using our experience gained here and overseas to achieve lasting benefits for children on a far wider scale than would be the case if we just confined our work to those children and families who happen to be involved in the projects we run . |
| 11 | It was developed mainly by Trumbull , with Kubrick 's encouragement , to reproduce on a far bigger scale some of the experiments done by John Whitney Sr to make abstract , flat animation — approximately the film equivalent of abstract expressionism in painting ( Pollock , Rothko ) . |
| 12 | It was as though everyone had dashed off on a far bigger , far better story than they had covered in their lives . |
| 13 | These are events similar to the Big Bang but on a far smaller scale . |
| 14 | More importantly to Branson , it meant Virgin were on a far smaller margin of any profit . |
| 15 | Even on a far smaller scale the pilgrimages to Jerusalem of the third century B.C. must have represented important events . |
| 16 | The agent , a good one , reported that the affair was n't quite as dramatic as first accounts had suggested and had been on a far smaller scale , but that students had definitely been involved and at least one of them appeared badly hurt . |
| 17 | But there are still others who have no sense of conviction because of problems on a far deeper level , such as a crisis of identity . |
| 18 | Resistance , grounded on a far deeper sense of the rights of conscience , the role of the laity and the fallibility of ecclesiastical authority than existed in pre-conciliar days , will not be overcome at the level of the clergy , the religious orders , the thinking laity or — above all — the theologians . |
| 19 | Papert builds on a far older European tradition of cognitive psychology . |
| 20 | They also saw a deep hole lined with concrete , where earlier experiments were to be repeated on a far larger scale . |
| 21 | Though a certain amount of work has been done on the history of Africa 's media , there is room for research on a far larger scale . |
| 22 | However , no thermally formed vortices have been observed , and if they were they would theoretically be on a far larger scale than the spacing of the longitudinal dunes ( Mabbutt , 1 977 ) . |
| 23 | And though the numbers fluctuated , according to economic conditions in both the countries of origin and the receiving countries , it continued on a far larger scale than ever before . |
| 24 | " There will be more logging and deforestation on a far larger scale . " |
| 25 | Griffith had the wit to apply Inglis 's mathematics on a far finer scale , to ‘ openings ’ of almost molecular size and too fine to see with an optical microscope . |