Example sentences of "[verb] far [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus the people were scattered far away from their original home , and bitterness and a capacity for battle entered their souls . |
| 2 | Some of the brecchias and rock fragments will also be scattered far away . |
| 3 | But in my own brief experience of compiling papers on behalf of the institute I found far more in common than in conflict . |
| 4 | When buying flowers for pressing from a florist , remember that you will need far less material than you would to create an arrangement of fresh flowers . |
| 5 | The people interviewed would not be experts , but would simply be key participants with useful knowledge , whose interviews would yield far more useful information than a random survey of the community . |
| 6 | The anti-Germanism reflects the Report 's composition in the aftermath of the First World War ; at the same time , this passage looks far ahead , already foreshadowing the opposition between Zapp and Swallow as representative figures . |
| 7 | Also , manufacturers like Patrick Eggle and Paul Reed Smith have countersunk their controls , which looks far more attractive and is more in keeping with the otherwise classy demeanour of a guitar like this . |
| 8 | Use pattern that is appropriate to the style and size of your home — a small sprig design looks far more at home in a Victorian cottage than a grand , formally patterned carpet that would be better suited to a large room . |
| 9 | Curled up on his armchair , thin as a wood shaving , he looks far too slight to carry this immense spectacle . |
| 10 | Bright blusher looks far too blatant in summer , so avoid it like the beach on a bank holiday . |
| 11 | And although home ownership has proved a profitable investment during most of the decade , with house prices rising by an average of around 12 per cent , it looks far less so now . |
| 12 | American sports , Mr Fellice notes , are becoming far more popular overseas . |
| 13 | Coal also suffers from competition from gas , which is more environmentally friendly , and — as we have heard this evening — is becoming far more important in terms of baseload electricity generation in the near future . |
| 14 | And , ’ she added , determined to have the last word , ‘ she is becoming far too toffee-nosed . ’ |
| 15 | But there is a groundswell of opinion , and not before time , that ‘ categories ’ are becoming far too important . |
| 16 | ‘ Mush ’ is a terrifically exciting record , and one which presents new possibilities for a genre which was becoming far too complacent for its own good . |
| 17 | this prevents civilians from becoming far too powerful and then becoming a dictatorship . |
| 18 | ‘ I can wait for you , ’ she said huskily , and Claudia wanted nothing more than to leave a car that was rapidly becoming far too small for three . |
| 19 | Sentencing Harris , Lord Sutherland , told him that attempted murders involving such lethal weapons were becoming far too prevalent . |
| 20 | The domestic malt market is becoming far less predictable with increased import competition and continued concentration within the brewing industry following the far-reaching Monopolies and Mergers Commission ruling on tied estates last year . |
| 21 | ( as the study of the symbolic function , expressed in language , so strikingly indicates ) — it is necessary and sufficient to grasp the unconscious structure underlying each institution and each custom , in order to obtain a principle of interpretation valid for other institutions and other customs , provided of course that the analysis is carried far enough . |
| 22 | First , she lost the opening singles match 6-3 , 6-3 to Jana Novotna then she dithered far too often in the deciding doubles after Graf had , as expected , levelled the score by crushing Helena Sukova 6-2 , 6-1 in the other singles match . |
| 23 | True , his western armies were pushing forward rapidly as planned , but danger lay even in this , for the troops were becoming exhausted and famished as they moved far ahead of their supply trains . |
| 24 | When they first moved far enough into the courtyard to glimpse Gabriel sitting on his cloud , the morning sunshine dazzled eyes that had been indoors for days on end . |
| 25 | I mean we had an example from the miner 's strike but that ha was happening far away in a sense and it was just something that you could support or yo you did n't support or you put a tin of beans in the box in Quix and that was what you did you know sort of And then actually faced with having to accept food from that people had given you in a way , it 's a very quite a difficult concept . |
| 26 | You know they must be you know and a certain amount of guilt maybe that they that they did n't support the miners or you know it was something that was happening far away and maybe y like I said you gave the odd tin of beans you know but er |
| 27 | It seems to be happening far too often , and I wonder i I wonder what 's actually going wrong that this happening so often and in so many places , seems to be something that you know , perhaps we need to address it far more generally as a problem of housing management as a whole . |
| 28 | Hell , bands should be challenging our tolerance and expectations of how they should sound and behave , but there must be better ways than this drama-school drop-out , turgid , clumsy , aimless artwank that tip-toes far too close for comfort to being morally repugnant . |
| 29 | Looked far too small to play with Wallace up front . |
| 30 | For example , in examining the relationship between aggregate consumer spending and aggregate disposable income , it is important to determine whether or not , over a period of years , the spending and income data tend to fluctuate around a regular trend , or have a tendency to wander far away from their trend . |