Example sentences of "in far " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rarely is the customer consulted ; in far too many cases the regular is a powerless bystander as his or her pub is transformed by identikit ‘ Victoriana ’ . |
| 2 | In a world where money and material reward are held in far higher esteem than quality of life , their response will be predictable . |
| 3 | Reporters spent the day scurrying around in far from dignified fashion but not even the foreign television networks , with the vast logistical operations they run , were able to establish any sightings or obtain any hard information . |
| 4 | In far away Haiti a young black Methodist minister , Philip Potter , who would one day be Secretary of the World Council of Churches , mulled over the book as he struggled with villainy in a very poor and very sad land . |
| 5 | His Majesty appealed to him as a Statesman and as one who had been a Minister of the Crown to place before everything the present dangerous situation of the country , Sir Herbert replied that he and his party were just as patriotic as the Conservatives : the country would be in far greater danger from Tariffs — price of food stuffs would rise , there would be strikes and outbreaks all over the country . |
| 6 | Under normal circumstances when there is no undue stress — as in the examples of the soldiers or people living normal lives — adrenalin is released in far smaller amounts . |
| 7 | THE national championships begin in Newcastle today with Martine Le Moignan , the world champion , and Del Harris , the England No.1 , defending their British titles in far less confident mood than would have been the case a few months ago . |
| 8 | At this point I had to fly and catch him up , so I flew to Khabarovsk in far east Siberia where I had to spend a night . |
| 9 | This was , however , his notorious Reichstag speech on 30 January 1939 , when , in far more menacing fashion than ever before , Hitler made his threatening ‘ prophecy ’ that a new war would bring ‘ the destruction of the Jewish race in Europe ’ . |
| 10 | For the top and intermediate Party leadership , Hitler 's image stood therefore in far closer relationship to reality than it did for the broad mass of the population . |
| 11 | Thus they caused deep resentment in the hearts of the British troops , more taciturn , impoverished , and clothed in far rougher and less smart uniforms . |
| 12 | In addition , people are influenced by their own preconceptions , which will have evolved , in all but the very young , in far less enlightened times . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , reviews within the periphery did begin to deal with the relationship between form and content in far more radical ways than left or core reviews were prepared to do and were even able to hint at possible political meanings that might be derived from this process . |
| 14 | I would have enjoyed them even more had I not been about to faint every ten yards , but I was in far too bad a mood to tell my colleagues to slow down and wait for me . |
| 15 | So , in strong winds , the sail has to be sheeted in far tighter than in light winds . |
| 16 | In far too many instances real hard preparatory work is confined to well trained union negotiators . |
| 17 | In far too many management jobs there is the tyranny of the in-tray . |
| 18 | She wanted to tell of the flogging he 'd had , not in far off Jamaica , but here in England , but the forbidding frown and her own instinctive suspicion of strangers kept her silent . |
| 19 | A propaganda of peace based on the readiness of objectors to undergo hard labour was likely to meet with derision , if not anger , at a time when hundreds of thousands of young men were fighting and dying for their country in far more appalling conditions . |
| 20 | In the second place , even those people who have heard of the doctrine , and who accept it , do not , in far the greater number of cases , base their judgements that two states belong to the same self on a previous conviction that they are caused by the same body . |
| 21 | In the end , though , we are reminded that The Smiths ' four proper albums represented these songs in far more forceful contexts , from the arrogant hesitation of ‘ The Smiths ’ through to the extraordinary confidence , wit and power of ‘ The Queen Is Dead ’ and onwards , we notice that things like ‘ Reel Around The Fountain ’ just do n't sit comfortably in the middle of a Fun Corporate Pop album , and in the end we say ‘ Are you too idle to buy the proper original records rather than fork out for ‘ Best … |
| 22 | The Indian presence in far flung outposts of the Empire , for example , from Malaysia to East Africa , can only be understood in this context , and it is important to note that a tradition of emigration from Jamaica had already developed in the nineteenth century , with 2,000 Jamaicans migrating to build railways in Panama , followed by well over 80,000 who went to work on the first attempt at constructing the Panama Canal in the 1880s . |
| 23 | Flexibility within the classroom , the hallmark of the gifted teacher , must find a place in far more of our schools . |
| 24 | But the sociologist of religion is interested in far more complicated questions than merely who would call themselves Methodist , Muslim or Mormon — or the proportion of each faith that attends a place of worship each day or week or month , or commits suicide in a particular year . |
| 25 | Because of the very obvious advantages of growing in containers the practice , in far too many hands , has become a circus . |
| 26 | Nottinghamshire SSD has reacted angrily to an Appeal Court judgement which it says will result in far more children being taken into care throughout the country . |
| 27 | The press , the Catholic church and even the army are held in far higher regard . |
| 28 | Mr Atkinson estimates that Japan 's 21 most important commercial banks — including the seven trust banks and the three long-term credit banks , all in far worse condition than the city banks — have a total of ¥31 trillion of loans on which they are receiving either puny interest or no interest at all . |
| 29 | It is in far better shape than its main state-owned rival , Crédit Lyonnais , which has lent recklessly to film moguls and on property . |
| 30 | However , the issue is a lively one today , since some contemporary utilitarians adopt a highly rigorist outlook ( arguing , for example , that not to have done all one personally might to feed the starving in far off places is as bad as murder ) which other moral philosophers see as the reductio ad absurdum of utilitarianism . |