Example sentences of "far [adv] [adj] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The system is further complicated by the fact that on many issues a Flemish socialist is far less likely to agree with a French-speaking fellow-socialist than with a conservative fellow-Fleming . |
| 2 | In addition , it would make us far less likely to eat for the wrong reasons . |
| 3 | Organizations are arenas within which some things will tend to hang together and be adopted by power-players as a bundle , while other forms of combination may be far less likely to occur as a coherent package , perhaps because they are less coherent or because the alliance which could make them so lacks a position in the field of power to be able to constitute the necessity of its choices . |
| 4 | It is far more difficult to account for a further type of confusion . |
| 5 | The work of the secretary has been revolutionised by the advent of the word processor and secretaries are now far more able to take on a more substantial support role . |
| 6 | As many of the old river managers learned from first-hand experience of tinkering with their rivers , it is ultimately far more productive to work with a river than against it . |
| 7 | It could be argued that this is far more likely to occur to a self-regulatory body than to a statutory body . |
| 8 | She was far too early to go to the office , it was a waste of time to go home and she could think of nothing to do . |
| 9 | Then there was an unannounced shock of antique sound , a rapid arpeggio , far too real to come from a radio or record . |
| 10 | Anyway , she 's far too tame to survive in the wild , so she lives quite happily at Maureen 's . |
| 11 | Such a crack is far too small to see under the optical microscope and might be hard to see with an electron microscope . |
| 12 | They think that they are far too rare to travel with the ordinary animals on Noah 's ark so they build their own ’ . |
| 13 | They think that they are far too rare to travel with the ordinary animals on Noah 's ark so they build their own ’ . |
| 14 | A good example of Airdrie 's dogged persistence came when Alan Lawrence , looking far too frail to survive amid the Rangers defence , somehow wriggled clear of Oleg Kuznetsov on the right and flew the ball to the head of Owen Coyle , who headed high and away from Andy Goram as the goalkeeper twisted to his left . |
| 15 | The package was far too large to stuff down the side of the chair , but Mrs McMahon tried anyway , then gave up , and , with a helpless glance at her son , leaned back , ‘ Nothing , ’ she repeated . |
| 16 | In the first , there are protein molecules in the cell which bind specifically to X. Consequently , when an X molecule passes randomly into a cell , it may become bound to a protein , which is far too large to pass through the membrane . |
| 17 | Although you look far too pretty to suffer from the present malaise , you might find it means something to your generation . ’ |
| 18 | By the time the graves were dug , it would be 2.00 am and far too cold to sleep in the sub-zero winds that blew around the bottom of the mountain . |
| 19 | Well , it was tiny for a trampoline , but it looked far too big to push inside a person . |
| 20 | She is imprisoned within massive earthen walls from which she can never escape for her body is far too big to get through the passages that lead to it . |
| 21 | Sir Kenneth 's rules were a bit daft in places and far too detailed to work without the risk of continual recourse to the courts . |
| 22 | Some of these were intended to cover such large areas ( 150 metres by 60 ) that they had to be woven in situ , since they would have been too long and far too heavy to transport to the building , and certainly could not have been manoeuvred through its maze of passages . |