Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | Martin , one of the remaining 1940 Fighter Flight pilots , took command of Hal Far . |
| 2 | A dimly lit gully beckons to a short easy solo and a luminous dawn over a deserted plateau : the light of Aviemore far away . |
| 3 | On land , the weight of plants far exceeds the weight of the animal–that feed on them . |
| 4 | The disabled person would then hire-purchase or lease his motor car on terms far more advantageous than he could possibly contrive for himself , since the organisation would have the buying power to obtain cheaper cars and insurance , lower interest rates and a number of other concessions . |
| 5 | It was possible , of course , that their man had taken his taxi to a part of London far from the place he was staying in . |
| 6 | Gripping the ski-poles I tried to keep myself steady as the velocity increased and then , all of a sudden I sailed over the edge and felt myself going head over heels towards a white mass of snow far below . |
| 7 | He had never questioned either her motives or her decisions , allowing her a most aristocratic freedom of movement far beyond anything her middle-class upbringing in general and her life with her father in particular had encouraged her to expect . |
| 8 | Other Western diplomats , local journalists and most political analysts claimed , however , that the coup had been rumoured for weeks and had a level of sophistication far greater than that expected from mostly illiterate soldiers in the ranks . |
| 9 | ‘ Each month approximately 300 new requests are made for an occupational therapist assessment and this level of demand far outstrips the borough 's available resources . ’ |
| 10 | Interestingly , it is the semantic anomaly that probably makes this kind of joke far easier to translate from English into another language than the jokes which depend on sound-play or polysemy . |
| 11 | Newington Butts had the dark , deserted look of night far advanced . |
| 12 | The bulk of Germany 's railways were established between 1848 and 1877 , but even then they served the west of Germany far better than they served the east . |
| 13 | The manufacturers , flooded with a backlog of orders far in excess of their capacity , also felt that they would be able to do a better job if designs could be standardised , and had pressed the Government for action in 1947 . |
| 14 | This came as something of a surprise , for nothing Victor Saunders had told me about the Priut refuge quite prepared me for my first sight of this three-storey silver sausage — an amazing futuristic construction with a dining room that looks out on a wonderland of peaks , and with some four-bedded dormitories which , if you 're lucky enough to be allocated one , ensures a degree of comfort far different from alpine-style overcrowding . |
| 15 | I think er , we need to er , look at this issue of carers far more rigorously , and I 'm very sad that the government , having made a great play about back to basics and er , encouraging family values , erm , are not in fact prepared er , to do something to er , alleviate unemployment by encouraging employers to make adequate provision to ensure that people with dependants can actually work . |
| 16 | I take exception to the fact that the people who are deciding matters at intergovernmental conferences want to force the issue of unification far faster than I would wish . |
| 17 | Gnostic teachers claimed that their dualism explained the origin of evil far better than the orthodox church 's view that the created world comes from a perfectly good and all-powerful God . |
| 18 | Four minutes later he claimed a second near Hal Far , but did not see it crash and had no witness , although he believed that the pilot of this aircraft also baled out . |
| 19 | Alyssia ended up looking forward to her lunch with André far more eagerly than she had originally thought possible . |
| 20 | Despite this lack of data , science popularisers delight in calling Earth an insignificant ‘ speck of dust ’ , and science-fiction writers love to populate the Universe with races far more advanced than ours . |
| 21 | They seem to have their origin in Judaism far more than the rest of the book . |
| 22 | It is difficult to define this kind of skiing which ranges from skiing down the edge of the piste in the powder which the pistemachine does not reach , to touring from hut to hut far away from ski resorts . |
| 23 | For the same reason , there was no obstruction of the highway — the miners were getting from home to colliery far more quickly than normal , thanks to the chauffeur and the VIP escort . |
| 24 | The hill towns of central Italy witness very obviously to two historical facts : to a continuity of life far surpassing the English towns we have compared with them , and to a love of independence , of a way of life in which turbulence and freedom and constant war were endemic factors . |
| 25 | Hopefully my experiences will make the business of doing business in Japan far easier and will pave the way for WEC to work with Japanese companies in the future . ’ |
| 26 | He felt his strength powerfully , and a joy in flight far more real and powerful than the dreams and hopes had made of it in his cage at the Zoo . |
| 27 | Within weeks of the Zeebrugge disaster , P&O , the ship 's owners , agreed to a settlement with Pannone far in excess of its statutory obligations . |
| 28 | The links between politics and patronage can not have been beneficial to the efficiency of the customs service as a revenue-collecting agency , for all too often strong political interests could secure an important post for a man with little or no experience who was placed over the head of men far better qualified than himself , and presumably resentful of their own failure to secure advancement . |
| 29 | His voice was scarcely louder than the faint London hum of traffic far away that came through the window . |
| 30 | Thompson represents a humanistic current of Marxism far removed from either Althusser 's structuralism or Foucault 's post-structuralism . |