Example sentences of "[prep] [pos pn] [noun] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women expose themselves through their image far more than men do . |
| 2 | Edinburgh-based Dragon launched the all-paper bid for its rival Far Eastern trust last month . |
| 3 | Purchasers who seek prompt treatment for their patients far from home are unlikely to receive the results of peer review audit in the treating unit . |
| 4 | ‘ You 're taking this matter of my workshop far too seriously , ’ she declared . |
| 5 | Proponents of the changes did , however , find the prognostications of their adversaries far too pessimistic and polemical . |
| 6 | He stood up abruptly and resumed his restless pacing of the room , like a caged animal that had suddenly found the confines of its cage far too small for comfort . |
| 7 | In just a few days he had pushed back the horizons of her world far out of sight . |
| 8 | The antiquity of the land where he was born gave Davide intense pleasure , it expanded the stretch of his memory far beyond the circumscribed round of his life . |
| 9 | With her thoughts far away and her eyes fixed on the distant horizon , she did not notice where she was going — and as the tall , broad-shouldered man who was coming from the opposite direction was too deeply absorbed in his own reflections to be aware of his surroundings , there was a sudden abrupt collision . |
| 10 | Chief Executive George Mathewson is delighted with the 8 to 1 seal of approval , ‘ It has been a terrific boost to know that the number of customers impressed with our service far outweighs those who have a complaint , ’ he said . |
| 11 | But the objections to this provision quite apart from the point identified rightly by the Noble Viscount on second reading , erm raised in my view far wider matters major constitutional issues . |
| 12 | Ralph Berger has also found that subjects woken from REM sleep report colour in their dreams far more frequently than people do when asked about their dreams during the day — even subjects who claimed never to dream in colour . |
| 13 | ‘ She is in his presence far too much . ’ |
| 14 | Times have changed — and got greener — so that some typical decorations like coral are no longer acceptable , while style and fashion has made a good-looking living picture in your lounge far more important than the simple challenge of keeping pet fish alive . |
| 15 | And the tally of crown successes over its opponents far outnumbers its few failures ; Douglases , Crichtons , Livingstones , Erskines , Gordons , Hamiltons and many other members of aristocratic families who lost out to the crown over a huge range of disputes , from the heights of violent conflict to the crown 's ability to beat off rival claimants to lands , would have been astonished by the belief of later historians that they were more powerful than the monarchy . |
| 16 | She followed his gaze a moment , seeing how his eyes climbed the Wall to its summit far overhead , then looked back at him again . |
| 17 | Plainly she possessed none , except perhaps to her cat-creature far away , which she had condemned to death . |
| 18 | He used to write his poems on silk and send them to his wife far down the river . |
| 19 | An earlier example posed the case of man whose feelings for his garden far exceeded those for his relations whom he disliked because their brushes with crime offended the respect in which he held the law . |