Example sentences of "a far " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within the ranks of the clergy and religious orders themselves , there was a far from complete , centralized structure , but rather a dual one . |
| 2 | By the end of the Regency period the pub was becoming a far more attractive proposition for the government , too . |
| 3 | Magnus has a far better time than I do . |
| 4 | This philosophy , though on a far grander scale , can be observed in practice in such great gardens as Sissinghurst in Kent and Hidcote Manor in Gloucestershire , where similar plants and colour combinations have been placed in walled or hedged parts of the larger garden . |
| 5 | Closures had practically ceased by 1980 but a far greater force had by then begun to take effect . |
| 6 | The formation of the Metropolitan County Councils and their respective Passenger Transport Authorities would begin to have a far reaching effect on the future of many lines and stations . |
| 7 | As an environmental issue , bolting pales into insignificance beside other activities which are a far greater threat , argues Ed Douglas |
| 8 | Eleven years down that path he now has a far greater appreciation of dogs and the people who handle them professionally . |
| 9 | ’ So , after appearing to settle for third-person narrative , he doubles back on himself and leaves us to make what we can of an omniscient author who is bound hand and foot to a far from omniscient protagonist . |
| 10 | Ageing municipal domestic waste incinerators are a far greater source of dioxins ( and are slowly being upgraded ) ; domestic fires and unleaded petrol are the next biggest sources . |
| 11 | They are now certain an explosion was caused by Pentrite , a plastic explosive which requires much less skill to handle than Semtex and has been used by a far wider range of terrorist groups . |
| 12 | That gives us a far stronger base from which to campaign on trade union law than we have had before . |
| 13 | Slicker though Swansea were , Harlequins gained more than enough possession through their dominance at the line-out and the innumerable penalties to have expected more from the game — certainly New Zealand 's All Blacks will drive a far harder bargain when they play Swansea on 21 October . |
| 14 | There have , for example , been 29 changes in the method of computing the unemployment figures since the present Government came to power , so that the total number of people out of work has fallen by a far greater amount in appearance than in reality . |
| 15 | This move was based purely on jealousy , as professionals on the Continent enjoyed a far higher standard of living than their British-based counterparts . |
| 16 | Be that as it may , this work , heavily reliant on repetition and never straying far from the home key , cried out for someone to nurture its more lyrical passages , to shake its often delightful phrases , to exploit its contrasts ; in short , for a far more imaginative approach than that brought by Harry Christophers . |
| 17 | Whether this is the start of a deliberate confrontation , or the result of bad management of the kind which provoked BBC staff to strike this summer there is every sign that Mr Black wants his staff on a far tighter rein . |
| 18 | England face a far less forbidding task than in 1973 , when defeat on the same Chorzow ground by a gifted , combative Poland signalled the beginning of the end for Sir Alf Ramsey . |
| 19 | No , I was thinking of a far worse fate Which can o'ertake you when you 're 28 . |
| 20 | However , no doubt mollified both by the President 's dramatic decision on Tuesday to announce the release of eight long-term political prisoners and by the urbanity of his style , the archbishop did note that the talks had proceeded in ‘ a far better atmosphere ’ than previous encounters he has had with the government . |
| 21 | The referee 's first task of a damp evening was to ask Wasps to change their jerseys in order to avoid confusion and they emerged with a far more waspish look about them in black-and-yellow hoops . |
| 22 | ‘ We 've learnt from our past mistakes in approaching Thurrock and Nottingham and we 'll use the experience we gain from Southwell to the full at Telford to build something on a far grander scale , ’ Muddle says confidently . |
| 23 | Formal control within the police bureaucracy is therefore experienced by the RUC reserve as a tangible and omnipresent reality to a far greater extent than by regular police , which leads reserve police to have critical views of police management and some resentment towards the regulars , whom they feel ‘ get away with things ’ . |
| 24 | During this same period a far wider survey had been undertaken of all the fifty-nine party cells in the Poltava guberniia . |
| 25 | Above all , there was a general belief that , after three decades of social welfare and redistributive taxation , the spirit of Beveridge and ‘ fair shares ’ was not dead , and that Britain was a far more equitable society than before the war , with more genuine opportunity for different classes and races . |
| 26 | Therefore the little Ramsey , when he arrived at Repton in 1918 , met a headmaster destined to play a far more important part in his life than is the fate of most headmasters . |
| 27 | It is certain that the electors discussed the name of Stephen Neill , who had had a far more brilliant academic career as an undergraduate than Michael Ramsey and had lately dazzled the university by his lecturing and preaching power . |
| 28 | Though the poetic richness of ‘ Exequy ’ would be surpassed in The Waste Land , a far subtler piece of writing , the emptiness of the lesser work and its pained despair would be repeated in the masterpiece . |
| 29 | When the band became serious , I thought this is a far more contemporary and interesting way to make an artistic statement . |
| 30 | Such a far reaching change could ultimately only have been achieved with general Kikuyu support . |