Example sentences of "[vb past] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | Raw flint from the mines as well as finished artefacts were analysed , mainly hoards of flint axeheads found far from the mines , and there were some unexpected results ( fig. 6.5 ) . |
| 2 | But in my own brief experience of compiling papers on behalf of the institute I found far more in common than in conflict . |
| 3 | The storm that had been circling in the distance wandered far off , only an occasional casual flicker of light low in the sky showed that somewhere the enormous battle was going on . |
| 4 | His mind and spirit wandered far from the crowd of contemporary detail . |
| 5 | There they took a different path from the High Elves and wandered far from the mainstream of Elf culture , declaring themselves independent of the Phoenix Throne . |
| 6 | She seemed to find it difficult to make friends , and the fact that she hardly ever wandered far from the house only added to her loneliness . |
| 7 | And he created far more than he is ever given credit for … ’ |
| 8 | First , she lost the opening singles match 6-3 , 6-3 to Jana Novotna then she dithered far too often in the deciding doubles after Graf had , as expected , levelled the score by crushing Helena Sukova 6-2 , 6-1 in the other singles match . |
| 9 | Leading pacifists were drawn to Guild Socialism , and the ILP itself moved far towards endorsing the idea of self-government in industry . |
| 10 | True , his western armies were pushing forward rapidly as planned , but danger lay even in this , for the troops were becoming exhausted and famished as they moved far ahead of their supply trains . |
| 11 | When they first moved far enough into the courtyard to glimpse Gabriel sitting on his cloud , the morning sunshine dazzled eyes that had been indoors for days on end . |
| 12 | So France , which built far too much nuclear capacity with cheap government-backed loans , exports electricity to Britain and Italy at absurdly low rates . |
| 13 | It tasted far worse than I imagine my four-day-old socks would — a memorable moment remembered for the wrong reason , not least for the expression of anguish on Pete 's face as the brew hit his tonsils . |
| 14 | ‘ Why did you realise at Christmas ? ’ she asked , nuzzling her mouth into his warm neck , and thinking it tasted far better than the doughnut she had been dutifully consuming . |
| 15 | What is clear is that it was by looking at these eastern arts , whose strict conventions embodied far more of nature than the near-abstract Geometric , that Greek artists were able to break from that and establish a comparable style of their own . |
| 16 | ‘ It cost far too much and is far too grand for an old fellow like me . ’ |
| 17 | I was not only surprised to find they had plenty of timber for fence posts , but also that it cost far less than new wood . |
| 18 | Instead Smith Kline chose just twenty-five key distributors , with whom it maintained far closer contact than was usual practice . |
| 19 | Marslen-Wilson ( 1975 ) found that fluent restorations occurred far more often during the shadowing of normal prose than when the mispronounced word was semantically or syntactically incongruent with respect to the sentence containing it . |
| 20 | Mainly , the leading eugenists devoted themselves to preparing ‘ pedigree studies ’ of pauper families in order to establish that the residuum was a degenerate sub-species , genetically afflicted by feeble-mindedness , insanity , al holism , venereal disease , criminality , tuberculosis , and infant mortality , which multiplied far more quickly than superior members of the race . |
| 21 | He ranged far wide of any possible Treasury brief or of the broadest interpretation of his Exchequer responsibilities . |
| 22 | Such approaches , of course , were ordinarily difficult to resist , for a house never knew when royal gratitude might be of value to it in some application of its own or in some lawsuit ; a number of larger houses , like Bury St Edmunds in 1303 , even found themselves accommodating more than one royal corrodian ; furthermore , the recipients of these requests ranged far outside the hundred or so houses of which the king was patron . |
| 23 | Dr Hunt has pointed out that the geography of farm wages changed far more between 1750 and 1790 than at any time in the period 1790 to 1914 . |
| 24 | The French manufacturers of the Exocet missile , Aerospatiale , had been done a lot of good to by the Falklands imbroglio and reported far better order books . |
| 25 | The quantity of whales and dolphins caught far outweighed the tuna . |
| 26 | It was easy enough to spot them in the distance if they were in a clearing on the mountainside , but extremely difficult to detect them as Abdullahi and I approached through a tangle of giant heath that rose far above our heads . |
| 27 | Within Europe in particular , ‘ import penetration ’ rose far above the levels of the early fifties , which in turn were similar to the very low levels of the interwar period ( table 10.3 ) . |
| 28 | And certainly it was the case as my understanding of it anyway , is that those l er those routes that had links into Harrogate provided far greater relief than those that did n't have links . |
| 29 | With no pause between the fountains of rainbow brilliance illuminating the darkness , Gina found herself holding her breath as the spectacle exploded far above her head . |
| 30 | This quietly spoken young lieutenant commanded far more respect and confidence , with his ability to put soldiers at their ease and his willingness to help . ’ |