Example sentences of "[noun sg] has [verb] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | The unemployment rate is close to the national average , and the recession has hit far harder in the south . |
| 2 | He says he thinks the case has taken far too long and too many animals have suffered . |
| 3 | What about the situation in which , on the one hand , many households have no contact with wage labour and are wholly dependent for reproduction on state benefits and , on the other , wage labour has penetrated far further into other households because of the importance of female employment ? |
| 4 | Greek and Roman objects were the first works the Met acquired after its founding in 1870 , but in recent years the department has figured far less prominently than other areas which have undergone elaborate reinstallation . |
| 5 | The authors close : ‘ The endless quest for thinness has done far more harm than good . |
| 6 | However , handwriting recognition has attracted far less research investment than speech , possibly due to the less ’ glamorous ’ image it possesses . |
| 7 | Robin Child 's influence has gone far beyond the limits of the classroom and his Marlborough pupils : he has lectured widely , here and abroad , to teachers , art societies , art colleges , educationists , church audiences and schools ( some subsequently sending their own heads of department to Marlborough to see how it 's done ) on many aspects of art and art history , the philosophy of teaching and his own approach to it . |
| 8 | Quite suddenly the whole battle has moved far away . |
| 9 | Simply , the Queen has spent far more of her life at the heart of politics than any of the party leaders . |
| 10 | Possibly because of its immensely larger bulk , antarctic ice has changed far less during the same period . |
| 11 | ‘ Roman , do n't you think this farce has gone far enough ? ’ she snapped , beginning to lose her calm diplomacy . |
| 12 | Even the most fiendish human torturer has fallen far short of the agony provided by this small , shallow-water fish . |
| 13 | This , conveniently , is at a time when sterling has fallen far enough against the Deutschemark to make it potentially competitive within ERM . |
| 14 | When this happens , the iteration has gone far enough , and we can take p = cs , when q is determined from the second of equations ( 6 ) , which is in fact the same as ( 4 ) . |
| 15 | Although Johnnies , remains a big player in the property market and is involved in a wide range of activities including township , industrial , office and retail property developments , their business has expanded far beyond its original sphere of holding and administering property . |
| 16 | Two hours later , the body has drifted far downstream , finally getting wedged at the top of the weir in Parson 's Pleasure — the place where the careless Howard Brown had earlier left his yellow programme — and his continental seven … |
| 17 | The resulting three volume report concludes that acid rain has done far less damage to the nation 's lakes and forests than previously thought . |
| 18 | For the duo in question are his parents , Anne and Francie Brolly , whose musical fame has spread far beyond the confines of their native Dungiven . |
| 19 | Nowadays the keen water gardener has become far more selective when purchasing waterlilies , either trying to obtain some of the rarer varieties or experimenting with some of the more recent introductions of nymphaea , especially some of the outstanding new varieties that have been produced in America . |
| 20 | In London , substantial pump-priming , from public funds , by extensive infrastructural provision and aggressive marketing combined with a more buoyant and dynamic economy has induced far higher leverage ratios and inspired a prolific construction boom that dwarfs the Merseyside renewal . |
| 21 | It may seem that an account of politics in a revolutionary state has strayed far from its main theme when it discusses the education of seven adolescent girls in a remote oasis . |
| 22 | The comic has travelled far from schoolboy stories of daring-do to sophisticated art form . |
| 23 | Painting is the art of reaching the soul through the eyes , but if the picture appeals to the eyes and never reaches the soul , the painter has fallen far short of his aim . |
| 24 | The reality has fallen far short of these early expectations . |
| 25 | Since 1980 , in the light of events in Central America , both editions have been produced monthly and the presentation of the Spanish version has become far more lively and colourful . |
| 26 | Work on the theory of classification has extended far beyond that which is evident from a study of existing classification schemes and the practice of library classification . |
| 27 | Er on the envi environmental aspect , I think it 's worth emphasizing because clearly this is the major concern of both Scotton and er the Residents ' Association and er that the County Council has and perhaps to some extent I think it 's certainly the public consultations or the exercises I 've been involved in at this stage in a major scheme has done far more work in trying to assess those effects than is normally the case at this stage in a ma major highway scheme . |
| 28 | Publishing has got far more professional . |
| 29 | Certainly the measurement of programme expenditure has lagged far behind that of administrative expenditure ( National Audit Office , 1986b , para 12 ) , while ‘ little progress ’ has also apparently been made with integrating performance measurement with the public expenditure survey and parliamentary supply procedures ( Richards , 1987 , pp. 28–9 ) — a development much sought after by the Financial Management Unit . |
| 30 | Running a large company has become far more complex , which is aggravated by the rapid pace of change , in his view . |