Example sentences of "been far [adv] [det] " in BNC.

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1 Colin MacLeod , chairman and owner of Nottinghamshire-based Caledonian Mining , which competed against the consortium for the pit , said : ‘ There has been far too much in the press about the poor miners being done and that we were the big bad boys coming up to take over .
2 There have been far too many examples of artists ‘ living for the moment ’ , putting their faith in others to run their career , and waking up to find themselves penniless , out of favour with the public and feeling rather stupid .
3 It was a disgraceful affair and over the past few years there have been far too many riots in our prisons .
4 It is one of the facts of the computer world that there have always been far too many different printer types for the programmers to support and printer manufacturers have never managed to catch on to this simple fact .
5 There have been far too many cases of abuse in which local authorities have contrived a system of competitive tendering under which only the direct service organisation could win because special conditions were imposed .
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