Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] a far " in BNC.
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| 1 | Helping an elderly parent through her sorrow can be a long , hard haul , but very rewarding in the end — not only in terms of her recovery , but also because , if you find yourself in the same position in later years , you will look back on this experience you shared with her and find that it has left you with a far deeper understanding of grief , and a greater confidence in the healing power of time to see you through your own period of adjustment to loss . |
| 2 | But to say truth , I trust this border to you with a far lighter heart than I trust the east march to Dunbar . ’ |
| 3 | So what was it that pushed them into a far more extreme position towards Mary than that of 1558 ? |
| 4 | ‘ We 've learnt from our past mistakes in approaching Thurrock and Nottingham and we 'll use the experience we gain from Southwell to the full at Telford to build something on a far grander scale , ’ Muddle says confidently . |
| 5 | If I can read it , it puts me in a far better mood . |
| 6 | But not too many of those who reckoned she should be pitting herself alongside the professionals recognised that she was putting herself through a far tougher ordeal by playing in a junior championship where she had everything to lose , nothing to gain . |
| 7 | " Survival of the strongest " , for instance , and its tooth-and-claw ethic which became associated with Social Darwinism , is not at all what Wallace had meant by " survival of the fittest " , where fitness was defined by him as a far subtler and more complex weave of forces than mere pugnacious self-interest . |
| 8 | One clearly libidinous writer gives thanks for my providing him with a far from platitudinous substitute for an invitation to come up and look at etchings . |
| 9 | Then , after his commission to complete Salvin 's Harlaxton in 1834 had introduced him to a far richer vocabulary , came the wonderful sequence of great Jacobean palaces of the 1840s — Falkland ( 1839–41 ) , Whitehill ( 1839–43 ) , Muckross and Stoke Rochford ( both 1841 ) , Dartrey ( 1843 ) , Revesby ( 1844 ) , and Poltalloch ( 1849 ) . |
| 10 | The search for the inspirational sources of Jack Nicholson the artist , and Jack Nicholson the man , takes us on a far more diverse journey than some of his contemporaries , like Robert Redford , Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman , who were born in the same year — 1937 . |