Example sentences of "[prep] far [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a way of simulating cleanliness while actually covering up other odours of far less salubrious origin . |
| 2 | Federico Joni 's output also included a large amount of far less brilliant work , done in the normal course of his activity as restorer and expert creator of artefacts in the Renaissance style , and designed to satisfy the demands of a wide market . |
| 3 | The Common Law takes little interest in the goods , which are of far less importance , and especially of far less public importance , than the land . |
| 4 | It was less demanding than the similar education given to Elizabeth or Lady Jane Grey , and Mary was undoubtedly of far less intellectual a cast of mind . |
| 5 | This is one of the quantitative fallacies of far too much missionary thinking . |
| 6 | Policy networks ( such as local government professionals , ‘ interested ’ councillors , local pressure groups , local/specialist journalists , and so on ) are also generally of far more practical importance than is often realized . |
| 7 | On the other hand it was a very swift descent from the heights of a collectorship to the rank of a common gauger for a man who had friends among the voting freeholders , and some of those friends at once moved to his aid , their resolve strengthened by Carrick 's complaint that while five supervisors were dismissed , the other four were quickly reinstated in their rank and only he remained reduced , while , according to Carrick , at least one of the lucky men had been guilty of far more serious omissions than himself . |
| 8 | In theory , and ( with due allowance for the uncertainties involved ) in practice too , this approach clearly generates accounts of far more economic use than the historical cost mumbo-jumbo that still appears in so many corporate accounts . |
| 9 | This approach clearly generates accounts of far more economic use than the historical cost mumbo-jumbo that still appears in many corporate accounts |
| 10 | Clearly , games can be devised that are tests of far more subtle strategies and complex manoeuvres . |
| 11 | language is capable of far more subtle ways of metaphoric expression than the stock grammatical ways . |
| 12 | A film of far more breathless peaceful kisses : |
| 13 | Yet , in a somewhat art-y place like Freud 's which recently displayed the photographic work of Jane Ralley , the solitary wild-eyed scribbler was not too out of place ; but then , judging by the subject of half of the photographs in the show , the owner could count on this crowd to retain its sophisticated bonhomie in the face of far more deliberate provocation . |
| 14 | It would be improbable that men totally unqualified for their rank would be placed in a fleet commanded by the patron whose own career might be damaged by inefficiency , but given the situation in the fleet , of far more qualified applicants than available places , the choice was likely to fall upon a friend of a friend . |
| 15 | But it was capable of far more sophisticated applications , giving swift updating of average salaries and enabling Personnel Management to compare one company within the Group with another . |
| 16 | Most importantly , its key objective was to promote openness and trust at the top level , a refreshing contract to the dog-eat-dog approach being bred into far too many managers in this sado-masochistic age . |
| 17 | I think he went into far too much detail about it . |
| 18 | The tour was badly administrated with far too much time allocated at certain studios . |
| 19 | The criticism is that these problems have left DGIV with far too much power to act as both prosecutor and judge in the cases it has pursued . |
| 20 | ‘ I got away with far too much . |
| 21 | ‘ That secretary of his , ’ said Mrs Baggley with an inconsequence which was only apparent , ‘ feeds Charles with far too much tittle-tattle . |
| 22 | The policeman seemed to be treating him with far too much respect , Folly thought with irritation . |
| 23 | The biographical approach to Jesus ' life , and the psychological study of his own mind , were thus left with far too little to work with . |
| 24 | With far too masculine a man . |
| 25 | Such criteria must be viewed in context with far less quantifiable social factors and a consideration of the officially indefinable ‘ quality of life ’ . |
| 26 | It was indeed precisely the combination of as much ‘ national ’ pride as was to be found among the greater kingdoms of Europe , with far less material resources on which to base it , which made Scotland so unusual . |
| 27 | In the 1968 ( Ministry of Health 1968 ) proposals , the boards were envisaged as operating as small executive management teams , with the senior administrator acting as managing director and with far less professional and medical input into decision-making . |
| 28 | Nowadays there is a large sector which deals with far more high-powered recruitment , and men are as likely as women to find themselves seeking work through an agency . |
| 29 | Not least of these is the need to achieve complete combustion and consequent complete oxidation of the contaminants , as partial oxidation can result in the production of intermediate chemical compounds with far more offensive odours than the original substances . |
| 30 | Yet each development officer thought she would end up with far more paid support workers than was actually the case ; one surmise , for example , was that there might come a time when they had 30 clients on their case load each with two paid carers . |