Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [verb] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We would never have a Labour government able to carry out a Labour programme — even when that programme had won far more votes than any of the other parties . ’ |
| 2 | In their examination of popular culture Stuart Hall and Paddy Whannel were worried by the fact that music-hall seemed to belong far more to the professional performers than to the audiences and that it was individual stars who actually seemed to have created the stereotypes and much of the idiom . |
| 3 | At this point the telephone started ringing far more than was usual even in this house . |
| 4 | Alan Hepple ( Cairns Angling ) , at the next peg upstream , clinched runner-up spot taking 8–5–0 as the main shoal refused to wander far from the wear top . |
| 5 | A 10-year study by the US National Acid Precipitation Assessment Programme published in mid-January 1991 concluded that acid rain had done far less damage to the nation 's lake and forests than had previously been thought . |
| 6 | In a laboratory in Oxford the purification of penicillin had progressed far enough to be reported in The Lancet in August 1940 . |
| 7 | Its morale had recovered far too well , in that its officers and instructors were turning to a doctrine of offensive warfare at all costs . |
| 8 | Moreover , elements of the personality cult had attained far wider resonance and , as we have seen in earlier chapters , can be said to have affected the vast majority of the population , leaving completely untouched only sections still wholly anchored ideologically in left-wing philosophies of life , those totally alienated by the attacks on the Churches , and a few exceptional individuals among intellectuals and members of the upper bourgeoisie who despised the irrationality of the Führer cult , were entirely nauseated by the populist vulgarity of Nazism , and could see national disaster looming . |
| 9 | Three factors combined to cause repeated postponement ; firstly , bad weather throughout most of April impeded the digging of jumping off trenches ; secondly , the French — under a new local commander on the Right Bank — had taken to launching a series of costly , but annoying , counter-attacks ; but thirdly , and most important , the attack along the Left Bank had fallen far behind schedule , and before those deadly flanking batteries could be mastered there was little prospect of an advance on the Right Bank . |
| 10 | This weakness had become far more pronounced since the oil crisis of 1973 with a severe cut-back in output and demand , and the annual percentage rate of growth in 1973–9 a mere 0.7 per cent . |
| 11 | By then it was clear that the relaxation of tensions between East and West had gone far beyond the détente of the 1970s , when the Atlantic alliance and Warsaw Pact had remained strong and tensions had been eased only against a background of continuing ideological competition between the two sides . |
| 12 | By now her hiding-place had become far too dangerous for her to remain in it for much longer . |
| 13 | Each Chief had to pay far more attention to the interests of his own Service in the cut-throat struggle for resources in a declining market . |
| 14 | By 1130 her reputation had spread far and wide and she was sought after as superior for many communities . |
| 15 | The speculating element had pushed far ahead of the line into Alberta along the location , and a place called Denwood sprang up . |
| 16 | With the country more and more forced into self-sufficiency , land was exhaustively cultivated , and by the closing stages of the war , when supplies from abroad had completely dried up , domestic production had fallen far below the 1941 level . |
| 17 | The house had become far too large and expensive to maintain for Aunt Lou and so it had been altered , the top half being made into a separate flat on the first floor and a studio apartment created in the former attics . |
| 18 | Political faction had become far more pervasive because the Reformation raised the temperature of Scottish politics , which now took on a focused European dimension , and because once the strong rule of James V had gone , men without the aura of royalty had to struggle with religious and political problems that they had never experienced before . |
| 19 | Even the Republic had felt far from confident about forming a long-term colonial policy ; Cromwell 's Council had invited merchants to say what should be done , but had not had time to do much more than conquer Jamaica and revive the East India Company . |
| 20 | I 'd dressed in my long dress , eaten breakfast bedu fashion , discussed the children 's health with the Sheikha over coffee — the Youngest Son had had far too many headaches and his usual teasing and joking had n't been seen for days . |