Example sentences of "the far " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sort of froze for a moment , tried to smile and not smile at the same time , looked uncomprehendingly at me , turned ever so slightly towards the farther side of the road from me and walked away with quick nervous steps . |
| 2 | While literature in the West concerns itself with little more than sex and other people 's books , there on the farther shore writers matter . |
| 3 | The farther the galaxy , the redder its light , and so the faster it is receding . |
| 4 | The redder the light , the farther and faster the galaxy . |
| 5 | The farther away they were from the centre of authority the easier it was . |
| 6 | And the farther away they were , the more likely it was that one tribe would dominate the district . |
| 7 | Her frock was already soaked , but she paid no heed to that , because she could see she would certainly get wet from feet to head before she reached the farther bank . |
| 8 | As she reached the gate at the farther edge she could see right under the low bridge — and as she looked she saw the van turn the bend at the top of the short hill leading to the bridge , and increase speed down it . |
| 9 | And yards out from the farther side of the-marsh , too far from the side to be even touched by hand , was a chestnut pony , trapped nearly up to his flanks in the quicksilver morass helpless and desperate . |
| 10 | The red tape always seems less voluminous the farther away from headquarters you are , and Fairbanks was apparently far enough away from both U.S. , and U.S.S.R. officialdom to make the approval possible . |
| 11 | Moreover , the farther from shore a duck sleeps the greater the distance a cat must cover in its final uncovered dash . |
| 12 | The river was in flood and tradition maintains that Coilus was able to cross only by leaping onto a large rock in mid-stream and from it to the farther bank . |
| 13 | The farther one went east from the Rhine , or the farther south from the Loire , the more diverse social custom and land tenure became : and above all , the commoner became ‘ allodial ’ land , land not held of any lord . |
| 14 | In other references dhamma is the raft on which men may cross the ocean of existence to the farther shore of Nirvana . |
| 15 | He saw the pond they called the lake and the grey bulk of the Mithraeum on the farther shore . |
| 16 | Dolly , sitting on the floor against the wall on the farther side of the bed , reached and tugged a blanket free . |
| 17 | Something moved on the farther side of the lochan , something hulky and dirty white , caught in the bog myrtle , where it shifted and billowed in the breeze . |
| 18 | Hence one might expect the orbiting gas to become more and more quiescent the farther it recedes from the stimulus of the ILR . |
| 19 | The farther it goes from the entrance before it dances , the farther away is the flower that it has discovered . |
| 20 | The farther it goes from the entrance before it dances , the farther away is the flower that it has discovered . |
| 21 | A light , shone on to the mirror and reflected on to a fairly distant surface , would provide an initial doubling in amplification of the movement of the mirror , and the farther the light was projected , the greater the subsequent amplification of any change in potential difference . |
| 22 | Hazel came out on the farther side of the ilexes and followed the path round a bend . |
| 23 | Soon they were in grey twilight and could see that the stream bordered the farther edge of the wood . |
| 24 | They watched it clear the farther hedge and disappear into the wood beyond the river . |
| 25 | He hopped across the ditch to the farther bank and looked round him again . |
| 26 | Fiver was already beyond them and thrusting towards the farther entrance tunnel . |
| 27 | On the instant , a fearful commotion began on the farther side . |
| 28 | The drive was tree-lined , so they went down the farther side , only visible now and then . |
| 29 | The farther the sight , |
| 30 | Our view of the pig/human relationship is that the farther out of sight the living pig is , the better — as though the actual animal is an embarrassing stage that pigfeed has to go through on its way to being packaged bacon . |