Example sentences of "[vb -s] far [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Curled up on his armchair , thin as a wood shaving , he looks far too slight to carry this immense spectacle . |
| 5 | Bright blusher looks far too blatant in summer , so avoid it like the beach on a bank holiday . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Psychology 's obsession with behaviourism owes far more to the fashion for logical positivism emerging from physicists in the 1930s than to any understanding of the needs of psychology . |
| 9 | John Major has convinced the Scots that he cares far more about them than Mrs Thatcher did , but the real test in Scotland may be about to start , writes Toby Helm |
| 10 | He has also convinced the Scots he cares far more about their future than did his predecessor , Mrs Thatcher . |
| 11 | The huge postbag on the subject from SHE 's readers shows us that the subject needs far more serious investigation , and can no longer be dismissed as fantasy or wishful thinking . |
| 12 | Parsley needs far more root-room than it is usually given ; the main or tap root is rather like a small carrot , and this should be allowed for . |
| 13 | What irks the Brits , and irks far more their Unionist fellow-citizens in Northern Ireland , is that foreigners — in pursuit of domestic votes , not Irish welfare — are using economic pressure to tell them how to behave . |
| 14 | ‘ But we will and really must change the bureaucracy , the remoteness of management , the impersonal care for patients , the frustrations of the staff and the failure to maintain high standards everywhere that the present way of running the service causes far too often . ’ |
| 15 | This means that the language of literature is no longer regarded as subordinated to the message supposedly carried by the text , and this emptiness of content illustrates far more powerfully than could anything else the primacy of language itself . |
| 16 | Immediate cash profit has far too long been the overriding aim : it has warped the genuine economy and forced farmers to consider every move in the context of ‘ How soon will it pay ? ’ |
| 17 | Every appointment seems to be an outrageous shot in the dark , either because the person appointed has no experience , or because he has far too much experience , having been fired from 43 other clubs ( three times from QPR ) . |
| 18 | Anyhow , I think that Hatherby woman has far too much influence on Constance . ’ |
| 19 | It has far too much legislation and far too much centralisation . |
| 20 | The great experimental merit of Aplysia , by contrast with Drosophila , which has as many neurons , or the octopus , which has far more , is that many of the Aplysia neurons are very large — up to a millimetre or so in diameter — and they are located in characteristic and recognizable patterns , which are reproducible from animal to animal . |
| 21 | I compiled it onto another system which has far better de debugging tools and |
| 22 | Technically , the cetacean side of things is n't at all well handled : the beast is evidently as much of a pawn as Jonah ; its providential appearance just as the sailors are tossing Jonah overboard smacks far too heavily of a deus ex machina ; and the great fish is casually dismissed from the story the moment its narrative function has been fulfilled . |
| 23 | However , looking at the underlined stretches , which are those showing one or more grammatical , lexical or phonological features of Creole origin , it is apparent that Carol uses far more creole forms than Joan . |
| 24 | At the same time look for the mixed metaphor , which occurs far too often and adds nothing ( except humour ) to the sentence . |
| 25 | Newman and Nichols , in a study of a 60–80-year-old group in North Carolina , confirmed this and noted , as had Kinsey , that the extent of sexual activity in later years depends far more on the intrinsic sexual drive of the individual than on relative age considerations . |
| 26 | There 's not a world of difference between the carb 1.6 fitted to this estate and the injected version : 90bhp against 108 and no vast difference in refinement , which of course says far more about the injected engine . |
| 27 | It is funny , painful and moving , and although it is rooted in the detail of individual lives , it says far more about the way we live than the windy bellicosity of much of Brenton 's previous work . |
| 28 | This is quite easy with the E6000 as the width of the knitting is programmed into the console , but on the Duomatic 80 , when knitting with the Deco and one colour , watch that the lock passes far enough past the right edge of the work to allow the Deco and arrow keys to do their job properly . |
| 29 | Once the rink breaks through the surface everything happens far more quickly , you scramble in and you 're ready to sail again . |
| 30 | The estimates in Figure 8.2 are not based on observed cratering , which happens far too infrequently , but on the exposure of each planet to the small bodies that can be seen today to move among the terrestrial planets . |