Example sentences of "is far " in BNC.
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| 1 | I feel that this sentence is far too harsh . |
| 2 | It is far better to like and admire something that is wrong , or to like and admire for the wrong reason , provided we do so sincerely , than to follow slavishly the dictates or ideas of some other person . |
| 3 | There is far less of the mystification which can be attributed to the account of the troubles in Guerrillas : what we get is the mysterious politics of forest and township as observed by an outsider , by an African Asian who understands a good deal of what is going on . |
| 4 | But they are brought together , in successive books , by the force of this preoccupation , and the reader has to make what he can of the resemblance between two figures quite remote from one another in any coarser understanding of the matter , to do this while adjusting his sight to a vista of copycats , impostors and successive interpretations — a vista which is far from unfamiliar now and can be caught , for instance , in the productions and reproductions of contemporary literary theory . |
| 5 | There is an elective affinity between this cultural vision and the religious vision of the Roman catholic church prior to the second Vatican Council , in its exclusivist attitude towards other Christian churches , an attitude which is far from overcome at the level of popular Roman catholicism . |
| 6 | Not only is it little consolation , he wrote , it is actually a further cause for despair , for it only shows that everything is far too late , that the glass was a dream of lateness and the work on the glass was a fantasy of lateness and the belief in the glass was the madness of one who has lost all sense of the meaning of lateness . |
| 7 | A pub , like any other old building , is far more than just its principle facade , or its four walls . |
| 8 | Where either of these is not practical then off-site training is far more effective as a constructive environment can be created and release from day-to-day pressures guaranteed . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Off-site training is far more effective , ’ — Charles Mobbs |
| 10 | In contrast , the restaurant manager is far less easy to define . |
| 11 | The dreaded gardeners ' garters , of Phalaris arundinacea ‘ Picta ’ manages to creep all over the place but is far too lovely a plant to write off just for that reason . |
| 12 | Silphium laciniatum , from the prairies of the central and southeastern states of America , is another six-footer , sometimes more , whose large , deeply divided foliage is far more ornamental than the yellow daisies it produces in late summer . |
| 13 | There is always something to be learned from a knowledgeable local instructor , and a flight is far more valuable than just a site briefing . |
| 14 | In windy weather every effort should be made to avoid having to move the glider upwind ; it is far safer and easier to land well into the field and then to move the glider back down wind . |
| 15 | With strong winds , the tendency to swing into the wind is far more pronounced , and after landing the swing can not always be controlled by full rudder . |
| 16 | With a low-powered winch or tow car , the acceleration is far slower and there is plenty of time to get the glider nicely balanced on the wheel so that it leaves the ground with a safe margin of speed . |
| 17 | This is far better than opening a little airbrake , then some more , and then finally having to use full airbrake for the landing in order to avoid overshooting into the far boundary . |
| 18 | In light winds the situation is far more critical than in windy weather , when it may be possible to land ahead from 500 feet or more , even on a relatively small site . |
| 19 | Remember that it is far better to get down and then to run into obstruction than to stall on to it at flying speed . |
| 20 | With a rope break , the climb out is at the normal towing speed when the rope breaks , whereas when engine problems occur the tow is usually slow and the climb is far worse than normal . |
| 21 | Then , when the glider pilot recognises he is far too low , any quick movement to regain position takes the glider up through the same wind gradient , causing a sudden surge of speed and producing an unexpected and possibly uncontrollable gain of height . |
| 22 | In most respects , using wave lift is far safer than cloud flying for attempts at Gold and Diamond heights . |
| 23 | The image , as with the subject itself , is far more ethereal , and meaningful . |
| 24 | Mr Chatrier 's involvement , and influence , in tennis is far from finished . |
| 25 | In my view , to have 32 seeds , even in the men 's singles where there is far greater depth of talent than among the women , can not possibly be justified . |
| 26 | To me and , I 'm sure , to many others , the title above is far more offensive . |
| 27 | This is far easier than setting out wall tiling , because floors have far fewer obstacles than walls do . |
| 28 | This is far more effective than brush application . |
| 29 | It is far easier to prevent behaviour problems from developing than it is to correct them once they have become entrenched habits . |
| 30 | It is far from unknown for an expert reader who provides an unfavourable report on a book in manuscript to find it nevertheless being published a year or so later . |