Example sentences of "far [adv] [conj] [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am also concerned that if these new unitary authorities come into effect , it seems er reasonable to assume the majority of members will be all the district councillors er whose involvement in planning of course is very different to our own and therefore their understanding of strategic planning , their appreciation of its importance will be far less and we could actually find that these planning committees authorities are really old district planning committees and the new and er there really could be quite serious implications for a whole number of things in Sussex I mean we know that the planning department is at the moment trying to erm create er a new and vibrant |
| 2 | I was much too shy ; they could all draw far better than I could . |
| 3 | EDWINA CURRIE turned down the offer of a job in Mr Major 's Government yesterday , saying that someone else could do the job far better than she could . |
| 4 | I guess he figured the malais would be less alert in the torpor of the mid-afternoon , while darkness was still not so far away that it could n't cloak his escape . |
| 5 | This followed the line of the river , which ran straight from almost as far away as they could see , flowing smoothly without fords , gravel shallows or plank bridges . |
| 6 | He kept himself diagonally across the room as far away as he could . |
| 7 | Alyssia gazed at him for a fraction of a second , then she took his advice and walked back to the house , when what she wanted to do was run as far away as she could from it . |
| 8 | She saw that she must do exactly that — run away from him as he had suggested , but as far away as she could go ! |
| 9 | Their mother and father were so far away and you could n't write that sort of thing in a letter . |
| 10 | And you know , as we come and submit ourselves to God , and as we look back , whether it 's back on a day , on a week , on a month , on year , on a lifetime , he has given to us far , far more than we could ever have asked or expected from him ! , as the apostle said , he is able to do abundantly above all that we can ask or think ! |
| 11 | Though they were standing as far apart as they could , and though they were both fully dressed , her hand flew to her mouth and her eyes widened . |
| 12 | Straining his neck as far forward as he could , he managed to push the window open several inches and , with another surge , wedged himself in the embrasure ; the spike on which the latch usually rested now sticking into his stomach . |
| 13 | Even then it piled up far faster than they could analyse it . |
| 14 | He says he did think of whipping up and running them down , but it would have been useless , they could shoot far faster than we could drive at them . |