Example sentences of "far [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FAR RIGHT The gift of reading is one of the most important a parent can give to a child . |
| 2 | You see , Ludens , if one goes on far enough the thing collapses under its own weight . ’ |
| 3 | Once back in the ops room , I laid the boy flat on his back , so far down the mattress that his dropped foot hung over the edge at the bottom , just as I had seen the Australian nurse do when I watched her during her London visit the previous year . |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't believe that Scotland has fallen far down the pecking order of top rugby nations . |
| 5 | But as it was I travelled only so far down the ramp and stuck there with my head and shoulders protruding into the street . |
| 6 | The meeting should be at a place far down the beach . |
| 7 | Clearly devolving responsibility for delivering the service locally by pushing such responsibility as far down the hierarchy to the point of delivery as is reasonably possible , and by ensuring that the local manager is placed in a hierarchy of managers , all with closely defined job descriptions from top to bottom of the organization |
| 8 | On attaining the summit , it 's a bit of a shock to see how far down the ridge drops round the lip of the corrie before climbing back up to Aonach Beag , but it snakes invitingly away to the east , presenting an irresistible walkway into untamed terrain . |
| 9 | I am aware that it is not possible for me to call every Scottish Member at Scottish Question Time , but I thought that it was fair today — I hope that the House will agree — to get as far down the Order Paper as I possibily could . |
| 10 | The fractional volume of activity depends on how far down the cascade one is ; i.e. on , where κ O is a typical wave number of the turbulence energy production . |
| 11 | It is also possible at this early stage for workers to transfer to other firms without falling too far down the promotion ladder although such mobility is rarely between large firms . |
| 12 | There is no ultimate theory , but there is an infinite sequence of theories that are such that any particular class of observations can be predicted by taking a theory sufficiently far down the chain . |
| 13 | ‘ It was quite wet and Imran went quite far down the wicket — he may be a great player but he 's not a great runner — before sending Inzamam back . |
| 14 | The world is returning to normal , and I wonder how far down the news Deptford will have slipped . |
| 15 | I know I do n't need to tell you , but for the record , I will have to clear all this in Oxford and so we should n't get too far down the line . |
| 16 | Not only do most people find this tricky but you run the risk of forgetting how far down the list you have travelled . |
| 17 | Mr Bowstead says that location is quite far down the list of priorities for companies choosing a printer and that P&W is well to the fore in providing services such as pass-the-press which allows clients to check the product during the printing process . |
| 18 | They then , ‘ … not knowing what honesty and far less the word of a soldier imported ’ , seized him and threatened to kill him if the Castle did not yield . |
| 19 | Quite simply , the concept of agitation on civil rights , far less the creation of a movement to carry out such agitation , is missing from the documents . |
| 20 | They could not tell how far away the ridge might be . |
| 21 | If one eye is shut , the brain only gets one picture and it is more difficult to tell exactly how far away the pencil is . |
| 22 | This would n't tell the bat how far away the tree was , but it might still be very useful information , nevertheless . |
| 23 | So if you know how fast the beam is going , and that 's in fact the speed of light , then you know how far away the object is , and you can do this for the planets . |
| 24 | I looked round to see how far away the horse was and saw there were two galloping towards me . |
| 25 | We set out before 7 a.m. , but Jean-Claude did not tell me how far away the château stood , or how long it would take to reach the boundary of the domain . |
| 26 | The bee that has found a food source does one of two main kinds of dance according to how far away the food source is . |
| 27 | The descent from the second Munro was knee-wrenching , and although it 's a relief to regain the track in the glen , it 's not such a relief to remember how far away the starting point is . |
| 28 | We started to do the old trick of counting the time between the lightning flash and the thunderclap to discover how far away the eye of the storm was . |
| 29 | A little transistor with a tin spike for an aerial was useless so far up the valley . |
| 30 | ‘ She is now so far up the beach and has suffered so much damage that it would be physically impossible to get her off , ’ said Orkney 's Marine Pollution Officer , Captain Bob Sclater . |