Example sentences of "[prep] far the " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 In the second place , even those people who have heard of the doctrine , and who accept it , do not , in far the greater number of cases , base their judgements that two states belong to the same self on a previous conviction that they are caused by the same body .
2 There will probably also be some classes in radio , television and film techniques and perhaps singing too , but by far the largest proportion of time will be allotted to the production exercise which is part of every term 's work .
3 Theoretically , one would expect the Northern catholic community and the six counties of Ulster to be considered a lost remnant , unredeemed from British rule , and indeed this is by far the most popular interpretation .
4 By far the best service that can now be done to these pubs , both for ourselves and future generations , is to leave well alone .
5 Hamburger outlets are by far the most important , representing almost 80% of total turnover in the fast food market .
6 By far the most widespread brand , Amora , is strong tasting and useful for vinaigrettes and in some sauces .
7 Light cross winds , and in particular those with a slight down wind component , create by far the most treacherous conditions for both take-offs and landings .
8 However , although the stick position and the total lack of response to the elevator are by far the most important symptoms of the actual stall , many instructors hardly mention it .
9 Late waves like the P300 and the more recently identified N400 are by far the most cognitively interesting of the ERP components .
10 Nevertheless InterCity cheerfully reveals that the VIP/first-class/full-dining trains contribute by far the largest share of the special-trains earnings — 50 per cent — compared with the 23 per cent from private charters , 18 per cent by standardclass charters , and 5 per cent by the steam market .
11 Railfreight is now by far the biggest user of locomotives .
12 Erdinger is by far the biggest wheat-beer producer in Germany ( about twice the size of the other famous specialist , Schneider Weisse ) .
13 When you are tackling a larger area — a whole wall , or perhaps even a complete room — you use exactly the same techniques ; the big difference is the sheer scale of the job , which makes the preliminary setting-out by far the most important part .
14 Cards are by far the most effective means of investigating performance of a DSP device .
15 What could rescue the United Airlines deal is the nature of the buyout ; United employees will control 75 per cent of the airline 's voting stock , making it by far the largest employee-owned corporation in the US .
16 According to the Fintech Mobile Communications newsletter , the UK is still by far the largest market with almost 700,000 subscribers split between Racal Telecom 's Vodafone and British Telecom 's Cellnet .
17 By far the greatest worries were those of divided families .
18 But it adds : ‘ Six makers lag behind the mediocre majority — Citroen , Daihatsu , Hyundai , Skoda , Yugo and , by far the worst , Reliant with its Rialto . ’
19 This has sensibly not escaped the British heavyweight champion ; so for all the understandable excitement felt when knocking out Tyrell Biggs in the seventh round , by far the most important of 32 consecutive victories he has achieved since turning professional in 1984 , he was not reluctant to focus on the flaws .
20 With 464 delegates out of the total of 1,276 , they are by far the largest bloc .
21 Of the three Cambodian resistance factions , the Khmer Rouge is by far the best organised .
22 The Poles played 3-4-3 , with a sweeper , and looked by far the more flexible .
23 The last is by far the most frequent type of request for assistance .
24 Political propaganda on the part of the American Relief Administration , by far the longest foreign source of aid , warped its judgement at the time , and the subsequent polarization of Russian-American relations has not improved the objectivity of later scholarly accounts of the Famine as seen through American eyes .
25 In the first place it comprised by far the largest number of workers in one industry .
26 The contract hire scheme is by far the most popular and it attacts over 90% of new car applications .
27 Institutional care , therefore , especially of the long-term patient , is , however unattractive from some points of view , by far the most efficient in terms of manPower per patient .
28 The first , and usually by far the largest , is the ‘ mechanical ’ royalty .
29 Book IX was by far the most thumbed section of Eliot 's Odyssey , and it was the story of the Cyclops that ‘ savage man ’ which he read most attentively .
30 from the point of view of history , including economic history , this is by far the best analysis we have of the genesis of the General Theory .
  Next page