Example sentences of "it [be] [prep] far [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had six million viewers and it 's by far the most popular thing I 've done , but I do think it was watched by all types and ages of people . ’ |
| 2 | Some say it 's by far the more challenging of the two . |
| 3 | In the cold , wet northern and western parts of the country it is by far the most reliable cereal crop . |
| 4 | Having read it , I am convinced it is by far the most important study of both the man and the scientist . |
| 5 | Some of this land is not its responsibility , for while it is by far the biggest operator in the china-clay industry it is not the only one , and there are mica dams , abandoned pits and spoil tips where neither the writ nor the sheep of Derek Owen run . |
| 6 | Known as the pressoir coquart , it is by far the most common machine in Champagne presshouses ; in other areas the hydraulic and pneumatic horizontal presses are more commonly used . |
| 7 | If it seems odd to devote a chapter to one book , however important and significant , it must be appreciated that numerically it is by far the most commonly found book and one which has been published over such a long period that the collector will see it more frequently than any other . |
| 8 | It is by far the best single-source reference on this ever-growing subject available . |
| 9 | That it is by far the funniest and most essential comedy show on television ( fourth series imminent in October , kids ! ) is a sad indictment , I mean , all that money Roy Clarke earns … |
| 10 | ‘ It is by far the most common cause of asthma in Britain , the allergy that kills 2,000 people a year , incapacitates hundreds of thousands and costs £450 million a year in NHS prescriptions and billions in hospitalisation and time off work . |
| 11 | This can occur with any mineral , but it is by far the most common in clay minerals which typically have rather loosely bonded cations on their surfaces which can be readily exchanged for cations in solution . |
| 12 | The first of these was chosen because it is by far the shortest sentence of the story , whilst the remaining two contain , respectively , explicit and symbolic allusions to death . |
| 13 | Louise had gone back to Nîmes now but she had left Sally the white dress as a parting gift and even without the waspie-waisted basque it was by far the nicest thing Sally owned . |
| 14 | When the time approached for a decision on when to ground PA474 , the feeling within the RAF was that PA474 should be kept airworthy for at least another ten years , and the suggestion was made that R5868 should go to Hendon instead , as it was by far the most historical of the two Lancasters . |
| 15 | After its vast spending spree on new factories at the tail end of the 1970s and in the first five years of the 1980s , IBM scared the pants off its competitors by stressing that it was by far the lowest-cost manufacturer in the industry . |
| 16 | Perhaps the best proof that the previous figures were flawed is that they suggested that Asia 's weight in world output had fallen from 7.9% in 1985 to 7.2% in 1990 , although it was by far the fastest growing region . |
| 17 | It was by far the most resolute action of his political life up to that point . |
| 18 | It was by far the most laboriously produced of the sequence : there are some five drafts , and thirteen separate typescripts , extant . |
| 19 | After a half-hour programme with Bristol tennis girl Jo Durie , once in the top half dozen in the international ratings , she said it was by far the toughest thing she 'd ever done on television . |
| 20 | The eighteenth-century Château de Remaisnil is magnificent by any standards ; it was by far the grandest home the Ashleys had yet lived in and it presented them with numerous challenges of a personal and artistic nature , not least of which was learning to speak French . |
| 21 | Rhaw 's collection of Newe deudsche geistliche Gesenge ( 1544 ) was not the earliest collection of polyphonic Lutheran hymn-compositions — Walter 's Gesangbüchlein ( see p. 220 ) reached its fifth edition in the same year and the Concentus novi trium vocum of Hans Kugelmann ( d. 1542 ) had appeared at Augsburg in 1540 but it was by far the most important . |
| 22 | It was by far the most sensible arrangement , since Geoffrey did not know the real purpose of their visit , but Loretta was seized with apprehension as soon as she was alone . |
| 23 | It was by far the most memorable part of the evening . |