Example sentences of "their [noun] [be] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lists of freemen of the city must be used with great caution , for their coverage was far from complete , but they indicate patterns of immigration amongst the ‘ middling ’ groups of townsmen — the tradesmen , craftsmen and shopkeepers who together accounted for at least half the adult male population . |
| 2 | And their saddles are far more ornamental with a horn that cowboys use to tie up their lassoos . |
| 3 | While all the neural crest cells are not completely multipotent their fate is far from fixed as they begin to migrate . |
| 4 | Traditionally , Archdeacon Oliver explains , archdeacons dealt with legal and property matters , but although they still have to keep an eye on architects and parsonage houses , their work is far more , nowadays , to do with pastoral negotiation . |
| 5 | Their lives were far more than just hard . |
| 6 | Their influence was far more diffuse and elusive ; as one teacher put it , ‘ we keep them in the backs of our minds ’ . |
| 7 | If one considers hierarchical assemblies in general , their evolution from their constituents is far more likely if they consist of relatively stable sub-assemblies which themselves are evolutionary products of an earlier period . |
| 8 | Yet they 're one of the few products not advertised on TV , probably because their appearance is far from viewer-friendly . |
| 9 | Anyone who has peered too closely into a cut-throat finch 's nest when the bird is sitting on eggs will have experienced the disturbing feeling that , very suddenly , their eye is far too close to a snake for comfort . |
| 10 | In conclusion , it should be obvious that the people of the village oppose the erosion of its community facilities and that their needs are far greater than that of an insignificant empire builder . |
| 11 | Their problems were far more complex than any the teacher might have set them . |
| 12 | But elsewhere their predictions were far too rosy . |
| 13 | ‘ There are others , but their rates are far higher . |
| 14 | The Inspirals are n't cool rockers , and their approach is far closer to the 1966 garage punk bands of Texas and Frisco like The Castaways and Count Five than Jimbo 's dick-showing , Look at me , I 'm a mess angst . |
| 15 | Their relation is far closer than the arbitrary link between signifier and signified so that in some contexts ( irony or double entendre for example ) connotative meanings are part and parcel of the denoted meaning . |
| 16 | Some older men and women have very comfortable incomes , and the recent spread of advertised facilities for them such as sheltered home developments suggests their numbers are far from insignificant . |
| 17 | Their love-making was far more civilised , in one way . |
| 18 | Yet parents who smack their children are far more common than those who do not . |
| 19 | But lay the blame where one will , on whom one will , the illusion which inspired Tennyson and Christina Rossetti to sing so passionately about the coming of their loves is far rarer now than then . |
| 20 | We have seen the problems facing these mutations in the natural habitat , but in captivity their chances are far higher , because some fishkeepers find them interesting and attractive , and attempt to propagate them . |
| 21 | Given the abstract nature of our alphabetic system for representing language , and the abstract nature of our wholly context-free numerical system , their acquisition is far from immediate or straightforward . |
| 22 | Their cells are far more complex than those of viruses , but they are still relatively simple . |
| 23 | Their stay is far from leisurely . |
| 24 | Again , however , both the development of such services and evaluations of their effectiveness are far more advanced in America . |