Example sentences of "far [subord] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There , my darlings , is not Miss Abbott a finer sight by far than that tawdry tinsel fairy you wanted for our tree ? |
| 2 | The 16-day-old stand-off appeared no closer to being resolved , and negotiations on Sunday were described by the FBI as ‘ less by far than any other day ’ . |
| 3 | She would instantly see that a plastic spoon proffered in open-hearted supplication and tender humility was more beautiful by far than any thorny rose or second-hand diamond given to her with a leer of anticipation . |
| 4 | On the other hand , it leads to the admission that in so far as all linguistic theories are provisional and incomplete ( particularly in the sphere of semantics ) , even the best-informed linguistic analysis leaves a great deal to be desired . |
| 5 | By the making of a new will or of a codicil or other writing executed with the same formalities as a will , so far as such later document is inconsistent with the will . |
| 6 | However , in so far as such social features are part of the meaning of utterances , they ought also to be treated in pragmatics ; yet within pragmatics , these social constraints on language usage and their systematic effects on language structure , have been very much understudied , perhaps as a result of the philosophical and linguistic bias ( no doubt reflected in this book ) towards what Buhler ( 1934 ) called the representational , and Jakobson ( 1960 ) the referential , function of language . |
| 7 | This annual service charge is an object of some suspicion as far as many would-be buyers are concerned , and in some countries there is legislation to protect buyers against developers who set the charge low initially and then raise it excessively later . |
| 8 | Dyson-Hudson ( 1984 ) has also commented that since c. 1970 the equivalent of $US600 million has been given as development funds to Africa 's rangelands but has brought few rewards as far as more efficient and productive pastoralism is concerned . |
| 9 | Large-scale industrialization and urbanization were bad enough as far as most Basque Nationalists were concerned ; even worse was the descent upon their homeland of tens of thousands of ‘ Spanish ’ immigrant workers , many of whom were affiliated to the Socialist UGT . |
| 10 | As far as most outstanding bonds are concerned this is still true but the picture has become more varied . |
| 11 | From now on , I 'll concentrate on the virtues of Granada 's resumed series which , like Jeeves , continues as far as most other viewers are concerned to give complete satisfaction . |
| 12 | As far as most nineteenth-century thinkers were concerned , it was obvious that the driving force of human evolution must have been a steady expansion of the brain , which merely continued the progressive thread that ran through the whole evolution of life . |
| 13 | Most significantly , and as far as most English observers were concerned most ominously , diplomatic relations with Rome which had been broken off at the Reformation were now restored . |
| 14 | The acceptance of tidied-up urban commons as an alternative to mown grass may be well in the future as far as most local authorities are concerned . |
| 15 | Finally , fears that fundholders would encourage referrals to private clinics to avoid a charge on their budgets seem to be unfounded , certainly as far as these aggregate data are concerned , and there was only limited evidence that fundholders were making use of their freedom to contract with private hospitals for outpatient services for NHS patients . |
| 16 | In so far as these religious matters were an expression of English resentment against their conquerors , such a Danish attitude would have tended to appease and disarm the opposition . |
| 17 | Territory has a particular kind of significance in all this in so far as these young people are reasserting their lost solidarity and independence through literally ‘ winning space ’ : claiming particular territories to be ‘ theirs ’ . |
| 18 | In so far as these subordinated forms of racism are granted some relative autonomy , and are not treated as simply an echo of the dominant ideology , the argument usually reverts to the classical tenets of a ‘ necessary false consciousness ’ . |
| 19 | Interactive 's work with Kodak , recently helping to develop its new Photo CD product , will continue as far as several large imaging projects go . |
| 20 | As far as this representative model is concerned procedural entitlements are viewed in purely instrumental terms , according to the contribution they may be expected to make to the accuracy of the underlying substantive policy judgments , and since no one has a right to a particular policy outcome , no one has aright either to any particular form of decision-making process . |
| 21 | In so far as this political power , as ‘ concentrated violence ’ against the bourgeoisie , is itself an economic force , it is the force which severs the capitalist relations of production , by putting the proletariat in charge of the material and physical framework of production … on the other hand , this same ‘ concentrated violence ’ is partly turned inward , where it is a factor in the self-organisation and compulsory self-discipline of the workers . |
| 22 | That is probably an impossible dream as far as this present government is concerned . |
| 23 | The main distinctions between provision for foreign language teaching and community language teaching , as far as this working party is concerned , relate to the social context in which the target language is acquired and used . |
| 24 | However such an examination is the more timely — and likely to be the more revealing — in the light of the London — Peking accords on the transition to Chinese authority , in so far as this last may affect the nature of the bureaucracy , modify its practices and , possibly , inject popular consultation on some issues . |
| 25 | I mean all I , I would like to , to say is that so far as this particular road , whatever you may call it , er is concerned , that we look at highways priorities in this committee and that we would receive an assurance that this would not be bulldozed through , if I may put it that way , erm and opposed to one two three four other major schemes which are perhaps of more importance in terms of highways rather than er a , a corporate objective . |
| 26 | But smoking was obviously kosher as far as this old bat went . |
| 27 | In so far as both these questions have to be solved simultaneously , it is important to utilize the other quadrants in Fig. 11–2 . |
| 28 | True , he no longer had any real family with blood links or domestic ties : separated from his mother since adolescence , so far as any real communication went ; his father dead ; himself disappointed in love . |
| 29 | In so far as any one institution is responsible for this basic stage of child socialization — literally , making social — then that institution is more often than not in our society the nuclear family . |
| 30 | A woman may not be bound by her role as a housewife but it is still the case that in so far as any one person is left with the main responsibility for the housework , that person is the woman . |