Example sentences of "far [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is often a good idea to have several small aquaria instead of one larger one , as it is easier to see the animals and to study them when they are in a small volume of water : they can not swim so far or so fast . |
| 2 | It is the stuff of or the basis of all the relations specified so far or still to be specified between cause and effect , causal circumstance and effect , and nomic correlates . |
| 3 | You should also note points where a pause could be made for recap on the story so far or for prediction of what might happen next . |
| 4 | He had asked if what was wanted was a detailed account of the whole course of the investigation so far or a brief statement of what was known . |
| 5 | for the are we that far or shall we offer them |
| 6 | So that 's why I ended up doing science and I 've got this far so I ca n't be bad at it . |
| 7 | However — ’ he shrugged ‘ — my vet in Westmead ca n't be expected to come out so far so I 've obviously got to find one for this shop . ’ |
| 8 | William says that he wants to win and then hopefully look towards the world championship and then the next Europeans … it 's been a good year so far so he hopes it ends like that anyway |
| 9 | She would instantly see that a plastic spoon proffered in open-hearted supplication and tender humility was more beautiful by far than any thorny rose or second-hand diamond given to her with a leer of anticipation . |
| 10 | The Unwins beamed and patted everyone within reach including the horse , and Mr Unwin in his great antipodean accent could be heard calling his jockey ‘ son ’ , even though the rider looked older by far than the owner . |
| 11 | She , the ‘ bootlace ’ of Latin America , has the longest coastline of any country on the Pacific — 3,317 miles , longer by far than the entire Pacific coastline of Australia , which is a mere 2,450 miles from Cape York to Tasmania . |
| 12 | Most others insist that the young Richard got his looks from his mother , Edith , a fair-haired girl , taller by far than Dic , a sweet beauty , ‘ a very strong woman ’ , to whom her husband was absolutely faithful and utterly irresponsible : as he was to all his family . |
| 13 | Dutch painting thus suggests a vision of interiors more revelatory by far than that of ‘ taste ’ . |
| 14 | I thought of the chessplayers in the Park , where we sat for so many hours , the chessplayers , more various by far than the pieces they wielded ( the players not erect , not regulated , but mumbling , shambling , rhomboid ) . |
| 15 | It had loomed over him out of the spectral mist , more horrible by far than the ghoul brats he and Cleo had encountered in the forest . |
| 16 | There , my darlings , is not Miss Abbott a finer sight by far than that tawdry tinsel fairy you wanted for our tree ? |
| 17 | But before he got into his aircraft to complete his detail he presented 20 piastres to Fagan , Fagan looked at the 20 piastres — and the 20 piastre piece was a great thing like a cartwheel , very large and bigger by far than an old-fashioned crown , some 2-2 ½ ″ wide , Fagan looked at this and the doctor said : I am sorry about the shit I blew over everybody — there is my fine , " Fagan looked at it and said " Doe , the fine was only 10 piastres . " |
| 18 | The 16-day-old stand-off appeared no closer to being resolved , and negotiations on Sunday were described by the FBI as ‘ less by far than any other day ’ . |
| 19 | He 's also been careful to work er with the United Nations who have done er much better so far than they have in er some crises in the past . |
| 20 | After the initial impetus has run out , he wrote , and before one has got in so far that it is easier to finish than to go back , it is then that it becomes hard to be sure of your footing , hard to know why you are doing what you are doing , hard to know if you are doing correctly what you are doing . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've heard no hevidence so far that the poor lady did . ’ |
| 22 | You must never allow yourself to be crowded out , neither must you retreat so far that you overstep the area boundary . |
| 23 | However , if the rattle slips down so far that it is no longer visible , the infant will at once lose interest and behave as if the rattle had also slipped out of existence . |
| 24 | Share prices could fall so far that his cash offer for DRG , the Basildon Bond company , starts to look attractive . |
| 25 | This is the clearest evidence so far that Mr Gorbachev is willing to change his government 's plans in order to share authority with the federation council — the first step towards wider talks . |
| 26 | However , Mr Major made his frankest admission so far that the Tory campaign had been dogged by the recession . |
| 27 | The exclusion of the courts It has been argued so far that the methods of control and accountability introduced by the 1985 Act leave much to be desired . |
| 28 | And in so doing , we must , of course , be aware of the risk of setting a standard which goes so far that it would mean that others — for example , the senile or the mentally handicapped , whom we would wish to treat if they were ill — were also included by it . |
| 29 | Some extreme theorists , such as Eric Midwinter , carried such arguments so far that he held it wrong to enter children from deprived backgrounds for any kind of examinations , since they were bound to fail . |
| 30 | Indeed in Lylsland Church in Paisley this fetish was carried so far that even the common cup used by the minister and elders on either side , had three wee individual cups soldered inside the brim , lest their lips should touch . |