Example sentences of "[adj] and [adv] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's pouring down with rain , bitterly cold , extremely muddy and so far only half the PA 's turned up . |
| 2 | Like a best-man 's speech , Edward Petherbridge 's The Eight O'Clock News is an anecdotal monologue , often rambling , occasionally funny and inevitably far too long . |
| 3 | High and very far to the north I could just hear an aeroplane , only the third or fourth I had heard at night since coming to the island . |
| 4 | William Charles , the eldest son , had only recently left town for good , off to join his cousins in London ; young Benjamin was too young to be playing at soldiers , and Charles the Cheesemonger himself was a bit too old and certainly far too unhealthy to offer his services as a volunteer . |
| 5 | He had no right to wear the tie but he felt that it was rather distinguished and so far no one had caught him out . |
| 6 | Yet such discrepancies are not caused by the logic of structures but by the messy and often far from inevitable ways in which people come to understand the world around them and their own practices . |
| 7 | What it boiled down to was : there was here , where he had friends and family , or there was London where he had a few friends and a lot of contacts , and it felt like things were happening , and where you could fill time with something no matter how mixed up and fraudulent you felt … or there was abroad , of course ; the rest of the world ; India ( to take the most extreme example he 'd found so far ) , where you felt like an alien , lumbering and self-conscious , materially far more rich and spiritually far more poor than the people who thronged the place , where just by that intensity of touching , that very sweating crowdedness , you felt more apart , more consigned to a different , echoing place inside yourself . |
| 8 | seems to be producing more than just cereals and soups at the moment … the baby business is booming and so far they are all boys . |
| 9 | If in any given case the land in dispute is unbuilt land and the squatter is aware that the owner , while having no present use for it , has a purpose in mind for its use in the future , the court is likely to require very clear evidence before it can be satisfied that the squatter who claims a possessory title has not only established factual possession of the land , but also the requisite intention to exclude the world at large , including the owner with the paper title , so far as is reasonably practicable and so far as the processes of the law will allow . |
| 10 | As to this , counsel for the council accepted the correctness of the following statement ( so far as it went ) which I made in Powell v McFarlane ( at 471 – 2 ) : " … the animus possidendi involves the intention , in one 's own name and on one 's own behalf to exclude the world at large , including the owner with the paper title if he be not himself the possessor , so far as is reasonably practicable and so far as the processes of the law will allow . " … |
| 11 | ‘ Every eye in that room will be on the royal couple and they would all love to ask questions but they 're far too polite and obviously far too diplomatic . ’ |
| 12 | Apart from a cameo role in the ill-fated and so far unreleased Bloodhounds of Broadway , she has not taken a film role since the poorly conceived Shanghai Express and Who 's That Girl . |
| 13 | She should have followed her instincts and remembered what Debbie had written at the end of those notes , taken them as a warning and run as hard and as far as she could away from this Capricorn man ! |
| 14 | Though there were shipowners who accepted the principle of a national conciliation board , its establishment seemed to most to be a step too quick and too far . |
| 15 | Shelley was inoffensive , human , honest , humble and subsequently far more dangerous than the pathetic macho world of the Joe Strummers who inhabited punk 's general stance . |
| 16 | Centralized government , so the argument goes , has proved too large and too far removed from the problems with which it seeks to cope . |
| 17 | Religious conviction , in that age , and still more religious observance , were seen as naturally conservative ; and the Christian revival of the 1940s was openly regressive , anxious above all that the world might be changing too fast and too far . |
| 18 | It has been suggested that the Soviet political process produces tendencies for problems to be faced too late and for decision-makers then to push too fast and too far paying little heed to the impact of their decisions in other realms . |
| 19 | Then , of course , there were the Bruces , Lord Bruce who should be preparing himself for death instead of being involved in politics as if he were some young courtier intent on rising as fast and as far as he could . |
| 20 | She wanted to get up and run ; run as fast and as far as she could away from this man who seemed to be intent on humiliating her . |
| 21 | Even small changes in how fast and how far the contraction spreads can have profound effects on form . |
| 22 | All trainee managers follow the same route ; how fast and how far they develop depends entirely on their individual performance . |
| 23 | So we were caught like a lot of other people in not predicting just how fast and how far the land sales er prices would actually go down . |
| 24 | The little mouse which had run so fast and so far would now sit still in its corner . |
| 25 | Eric Cantona 's 85th minute goal was far too little and unfortunately far too late to save Howard Wilkinson 's men suffering the agony of going out for the second time in the space of five weeks . |
| 26 | Similar powers in the Housing Act of 1890 had only been permissive and so far only a few councils ( notably London ) had been active house builders ; indeed some , including Birmingham , had regarded the proposition as a matter of last resort . |
| 27 | Mr makes there was an under , enumeration of figures and that has been made clear in the reply the reply is quite clear about the basis on which the structure plan is being promulgated and the total projected total population in two thousand and six regards the historical data , that should be taken , as far as I 'm concerned , as matters of fact , will of course not be absolutely accurate and as far as projected data is concerned all that we can do any of us can do is to try and make the best estimates possible and I am satisfied that our officers will have done that . |
| 28 | They wanted to see it happy and successful and as far as possible united . |
| 29 | The disadvantages are less well-known and yet far more common than most people realise — even with the more expensive systems . |
| 30 | So it is not simply that the inner northern route gives far greater traffic relief than the outer northern and therefore far more effectively meets the need , but also on environmental criteria , the Council 's own consultants appear to have found that at least in its effect on the landscape that it is preferable . |