Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the beginning of a love far deeper than he ever realised . |
| 2 | It is , of course , of a complexity far beyond our power to solve . |
| 3 | That departure to university of a man far less intelligent than himself had been a blow to Stephen . |
| 4 | At that moment there was the sound of a horn far off in the forest . |
| 5 | Every other sound that she had hitherto been conscious of — the distant bleat of sheep in the field , the wind in the trees , the mewling cry of a hawk far above her — disappeared , vanished from her awareness . |
| 6 | To understand the primitive way of life , or the way of life of a society far removed from our own , it is necessary for us to extend our way of life into the orbit of the form of life of that society , rather than bring the form of life of that society into the orbit of our own . |
| 7 | What looks like a four-leafed clover in the centre of a galaxy is in fact a product of gravitational lensing ; the four leaves of the clover are four different images of a quasar far more distant than the galaxy in which they seem to nestle . |
| 8 | Mrs Goreng was by no means the youngest but , unfortunately , the women of her age were married to officers of a rank far junior to her own husband and — therefore — herself , while the youngest colonel 's wife was forty-three , as I ascertained . |
| 9 | And another young man suspect of a thing far out of his scope , who must not die a similarly unjust death . |
| 10 | By the time she got to him , he looked impatient , like a man far too accustomed to everyone in the world dropping whatever they were doing to look after his needs first . |
| 11 | As a result far too many people emerge from their doctor , lawyer or bank manager feeling that they have not had a fair deal and have been treated as children rather than as adults who know their own mind . |
| 12 | That would seem to be the case here , where we must remember that the storyteller had as his raw material a tale about a demon far , far removed from the mainstream of Israel 's talk about her God . |
| 13 | It will take you through a forest far stranger than this tiny Ryhope Wood . ’ |
| 14 | She remembered the leaves of the laurel , a thick , tough , leathery spotted green and yellow : she was obliged , through ignorant association , and through a learning far wider than her experience , to picture poets and emperors crowned with such grim suburban foliage . |
| 15 | Moreover , to predict that an incoming Labour government would surely be faced with a mess far greater than any previous inheritance by a new administration is a double-edged weapon . |
| 16 | We soon discovered , not surprisingly , that she could cope with a curry far hotter than we could eat . |
| 17 | The result has been a noticeable increase in the number of pilots who suddenly find themselves faced with a situation far beyond their control , usually a situation that they had not even considered at the start of the flight . |
| 18 | The Syrians used their tanks against the leftists without compunction , but by October they were armed with a weapon far more powerful than their armour : a mandate from the Arab League to enter Beirut as an ‘ Arab Deterrent Force ’ . |
| 19 | Composed variously of opus sectile ( marbles in a variety of geometric shapes ) , opus alexendrinum ( large slabs of precious oriental marbles ) and opus tessellatum ( pictorial designs made from tesserae , like mosaic ) , over the centuries the pavement has buckled into a surface far from level and has suffered from atmospheric pollution as well as wear and tear of daily use . |
| 20 | Although he 'd written that I was not a fantasy for him , he had dreamed me , written me , into a woman far less flawed than I am , or ever could be . |
| 21 | Once again The Smiths waltzed into a situation far in advance of their short-lived career . |
| 22 | Some students with pre-RAF flight training can skip a level and go directly to the Tucano , leaping as they do so into a world far distant from general aviation . |
| 23 | But now I think of these ideas as coming from a principle far more subtle . |
| 24 | One such was one of those oval rattan wicker chairs which hung from a beam far above . |
| 25 | And in a knowledge far beyond that of our senses . |
| 26 | Mary was indeed brought up in a country far wealthier and more powerful than that which she was to rule . |
| 27 | It 's obvious that what God said to Noah would have seemed extremely odd ; build a huge boat in a country far away from any substantial water . |
| 28 | While Mrs Walton washed the baby and dressed him in a layette far finer than she had ever imagined existed , Tempy attended to Tamar and put a fresh nightgown on her . |
| 29 | For The Rite Of Spring celebrates the mythical and timeless regeneration of both the natural and the human world in a spirit far removed from the tranquil and ordinary daffodils immortalised by Wordsworth . |
| 30 | Their home was in a village far away in the High Tatra Mountains . |