Example sentences of "their [noun] [is] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | While all the neural crest cells are not completely multipotent their fate is far from fixed as they begin to migrate . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Yet they 're one of the few products not advertised on TV , probably because their appearance is far from viewer-friendly . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Their stay is far from leisurely . |