Example sentences of "can [verb] far " in BNC.

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1 If your arms are fit enough , it is best to sail without using the harness as much as possible since you can make far more sensitive adjustments .
2 Our critical strategies can range far wider , and in doing so can take on a general character .
3 We can know far more about a fictional character than we can about another human , even more than we can know about ourselves .
4 Interestingly enough I also heard recently that takes patients from a private hospital , the , because they can give far better treatment than the private sector .
5 You are a natural athlete , the stroke feels right to you and you find you can achieve far greater power this way .
6 They do , however , believe that individuals can exert far greater influence over society within capitalism than Marxists .
7 Similarly , empirical evidence concerning reductions in defence budgets in the 1950s and 1970s indicates that , while the military-industrial complex can exert far more influence on the budget than hithertofore , this influence is never assured .
8 By ‘ brainstorming ’ , groups can generate far more and better ideas than individuals working on their own .
9 If that blood is fresh we can do far more with it . "
10 We can do far more for the author . ’
11 The full Oxford English Dictionary is available on compact disc ; and with it you can do far more extensive searches for information than the printed book allows .
12 Divorce can bring far more anguish to young children than parents ever realize .
13 There will normally be another venue nearby where you can sail far more safely .
14 In retrospect , one can see far better than even he could see at the time how deeply the logic of the ‘ New Theology ’ , biblical and historical rather than scholastic , was bound to challenge the whole shape of the contemporary Church and the way it perceived orthodoxy .
15 Thus , we can move far beyond purely descriptive statements recording that this or that apparently arbitrary subclass of adjectives is ungrammatical in this or that position ; it is possible , even at levels of such fine detail as in the grammaticality of ( 60 ) beside ( 59 ) , to find principled explanations for the patterns of grammaticality , based ultimately on the intensional distinction between qualification and assignment .
16 In the guitar plants , there 's an own-design computerised fret-insertion machine plus a robot which holds and twists guitar necks so that every part gets buffed equally — a job it can perform far more accurately than any luthier .
17 In the guitar plants , there 's an own-design computerised fret-insertion machine plus a robot which holds and twists guitar necks so that every part gets buffed equally — a job it can perform far more accurately than any luthier .
18 So , elephants can hear far lower sounds than us , while mice cut off below 1000 hertz but can hear sounds as high as 100 000 hertz .
19 Damage to especially favoured areas , such as mangroves and coral reefs , can have far reaching effects elsewhere .
20 Most of the time it is just a minor irritant , but interference can have far reaching effects .
21 The wrong selection can have far reaching consequences ; the initial choice of an elastomer for the seals in the landing gear of the DC-8 aircraft resulted in serious jamming because the seals become swollen when in contact with the hydraulic fluid .
22 They can have far reaching consequence in the development of an organism , e.g. one error of a base results in haemoglobin S being produced which results in sickle cell anaemia .
23 You will learn about how they all depend on each other and about how the destruction of any one of them can have far reaching consequences .
24 If you are upgrading an XT class machine then you can re-use far less of the hardware .
25 He says he can capture far more detail on slides than he could by sketching .
26 So the economic implications of social services can go far beyond the immediate practical ones of financing the current provision .
27 The effects of humans can go far beyond this , in moving plants away from their natural range so that they appear ‘ native ’ in their new homes , often with the advantage of no pest pressure .
28 I dare say you can get far better versions out there !
29 The combination of the two policies , which are likely to be extended to the rest of Britain , means that land which can support far greater numbers and variety of trees will be available to foresters .
30 The average Greek lawyer , poor chap , earns only half as much per year as the average Greek factory worker — if you believe their tax declarations , which a self-employed professional man can fiddle far more easily than can any mere employee .
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