Example sentences of "was far " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think they had their fun , she took the veronal to sleep soundly , then when she was far gone he smothered her . ’ |
| 2 | I smiled a smile that was meant to signify interest in this excursion , but Carla was far too intelligent to believe it showed anything of the sort . |
| 3 | However , any protest she made was far more likely to lose her friends then gain me any . |
| 4 | He shared his pupils ' impatience with the history side but he was far too polite ever to express this prejudice in my presence — and he was pleased that there was somebody else in the department who was prepared to cover that part of the teaching . |
| 5 | Not at all — the price was too good — MacDonald 's factor was far too busy agreeing a price for the young folk that he sold to the Carolina merchants . |
| 6 | Oh no — never — the bribe was far too great to refuse — they ran a cordon round the Green and delivered over their own folk to the men-of-war . |
| 7 | The adoption of the name ScotRail by the Scottish Region was far more than a marketing ploy . |
| 8 | Probably because it started the 1980s with a fleet of new 125mph HSTs which had made a major impact on its market , the East Coast main line was far better placed to withstand the rigours of the recession than its West Coast neighbour . |
| 9 | Although studying and admiring Tchaikovsky 's methods of composition , Stravinsky felt he could break away from the stereotyped dance forms demanded by nineteenth-century balletmasters , His music was far more economical in melody and orchestral sound but his rhythmic phrasings and marked attention to newer dance forms inspired Ashton to break away from traditional class-room practices . |
| 10 | But how it could be brought to bear on specific political decisions that had to be taken in for instance the 1930s — this was far from clear even to Eliot himself , if we judge from the dryly disenchanted tone of many of his editorial pronouncements and observations in The Criterion . |
| 11 | However , forest decline was far more extensive in Germany and continental Europe than , for example , in Britain and Norway . |
| 12 | The other game was far more interesting with Speelman looking for much of the time as though he was spending a very unhappy 33rd birthday . |
| 13 | He was far more forthright on the omission of Steve Cram . |
| 14 | Addressing the Supreme Soviet during a debate on emergency price curbs , Mr Ryzhkov was far blunter than a man accustomed to the velvety circumlocutions and understatements , second nature to Western central bankers . |
| 15 | And the pain I 've had for three years was far worse . |
| 16 | Reading a rightwing paper never had any significant effect on this aspect of Thatcher 's image and only a small effect on Kinnock 's image in the Pre-Campaign Wave , though its influence grew steadily thereafter : in the first fortnight of the campaign press bias was a little more influential than anything except partisanship and in the second fortnight it was far more influential than anything except partisanship ( Table 8.6 ) . |
| 17 | This was far less dramatic than in a much larger city like Petrograd . |
| 18 | The lot of the Kursk peasant , in 1922 as shortly before 1917 , was far more narrow . |
| 19 | The effect of the Famine in 1921–2 was far more crippling in the Volga provinces than in Tambov guberniia , so that one can argue either way as to whether it had a stimulating or depressing effect on the mettle of the Tambov Greens ; certainly in Samara and Saratov its vehemence blew out all hope of resistance . |
| 20 | It cost too much , its intellectual standard was far too high , and its distribution was inefficient . |
| 21 | The devolution campaigns began in the winter of 1978–9 when , as will be seen , the public was far more concerned with the ‘ winter of discontent ’ with the trade unions and the likely approach of a general election . |
| 22 | Even Scotland was far removed from the necessary 40 per cent margin . |
| 23 | He was far removed from the centralism embodied by his predecessors Ernest Bevin and Arthur Deakin . |
| 24 | The main thrust of Thatcherite social and economic philosophy was far from clear when she took office in May 1979 , so entrenched were key figures of the Heathite past in the party ; but the general thrust would clearly lie in pursuing the monetarist approach of the Chicago economist , Milton Friedman , in which control of the money supply through M3 indicators , and identifying inflation rather than unemployment as the central enemy , were the fundamental themes . |
| 25 | In the autumn of 1989 , therefore , the evidence for a permanent revolution in British public and private attitudes as a result of ten years of Mrs Thatcher 's rule was far from conclusive . |
| 26 | By the end of the 1980s , partly as a result of deliberate government action , more perhaps because the unduly optimistic assumptions of Beveridge and other founders of the British welfare system were being falsified by financial and cultural factors ( such as the breakdown of the old nuclear family of fabled tradition ) , the welfare state was far less able to temper the asperities of a harsh and divided society . |
| 27 | Mrs Thatcher was far from alone in condemning any thought of a ‘ United States of Europe ’ in her Bruges speech . |
| 28 | If rumour speaks true , the pattern on which the plan was based was obsolescent before the second five-year phase of the plan was far advanced . |
| 29 | He refused to allow the party access to his fund , and partly for this reason the Liberals were forced to accept a drastic reduction in the number of candidatures , from 513 in 1929 to 112 in 1931 , The condition of the Liberals was far more serious than that of Labour , for the Liberal party was beginning to lose its sense of identity and purpose ( and has still not fully recovered it ) . |
| 30 | For much of the period he discusses , it was far from easy to prove whether a couple was legally married at all . |