Example sentences of "far [adv] [adj] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The person who is feeling stable , confident and optimistic is far less likely to mind being alone than someone who is still reeling from a major bereavement or break-up . |
| 2 | But far more numerous have been depictions in light entertainment shows : often with regular ‘ gay ’ characters : the suggestion of a relationship between Hugh Lloyd and Terry Scott in ‘ Hugh and I ’ ( early sixties BBC1 ) , and the John Inman character in ‘ Are You Being Served ? ’ |
| 3 | So far about 100 have been established , mainly in Scandinavia but also in Japan and several third world countries . |
| 4 | So far relatively little has been written about the use of review meetings or family meetings in work with elderly people , although their value in practice is increasingly being recognised . |
| 5 | A tourist probably dropped it , I thought , but when I looked closer there were more of them , far too many to have been left by a traveller . |
| 6 | ‘ Atropine is confirmed , and far too much to have been a slight slip of the deadly nightshade . |
| 7 | Perhaps part of the problem is that far too much has been expected of positivist criminology or , alternatively , positivist criminologists have been responsible for fostering too grandiose expectations . |