Example sentences of "far well " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The tradition for diesel cars is far better established on the Continent and that is where the best buys come from . |
| 3 | Even Smolenskaia derevnia , an organ specifically designed for local peasant consumption and far better attuned to Belorussian interests than Bednota , was criticized in 1923 for insufficient contact with village life . |
| 4 | The police were far better organized than ever before , with the National Reporting Centre to co-ordinate police movements and intelligence and a high degree of latitude given to police in the handling of pickets , however violent the methods used . |
| 5 | They 'll appreciate the inside of the house far better now . ’ |
| 6 | If foxes have to be killed , then shooting strikes me as being as decent a method as any , and probably far better than most . |
| 7 | Far better , then , not to plant the worthless white mulberry , but rather to take the king 's money and plant instead the almost identical black mulberry , Morus nigra , which since Roman times had borne delicious crops of long , purple fruit . |
| 8 | She had never been pushed academically , although there is no doubt she had the intelligence to have done far better than she ever did . |
| 9 | Although Chancellor Kohl later agreed to an apparent compromise it was clear even then — how much more so now — that West Germany had killed the programme , and it had done so because it sensed far better than any of its Nato partners how completely President Gorbachev had changed the situation in Europe . |
| 10 | Far better , perhaps , to concentrate on civil aviation . |
| 11 | Far better , perhaps , to concentrate on civil aviation . |
| 12 | Those countries which were protesting about the repatriation would do far better if they offered to take some of the boat people themselves . |
| 13 | In 1958 regular recruiting went far better than the demographers had predicted , and the Army Council was able to substantiate its claim for a higher manpower ceiling . |
| 14 | He understood far better than Mao that socialism had to be built gradually and on the basis of ‘ capitalist production ’ . |
| 15 | D2 MAC fudges that problem by offering a picture which , though far better than today 's TV , is not as good as what HDTV will eventually provide . |
| 16 | On the evidence of this book , he is far better suited to winning the election than to succeeding in the presidency . |
| 17 | Wherever its East German ally , the German Social Union , did well , the Christian Democrats did far better . |
| 18 | Its results are weapons already far better than needed to defeat second-rate enemies , which may be the only ones to worry about once the Soviet Union has imploded . |
| 19 | The West Indians could sell tourism , or promote local interests ( in sugar , bananas , bauxite and so on ) far better together than apart . |
| 20 | Zambia was wearing some of Tammuz' clothes and Roirbak thought the khaki and green suited hir far better than the dusty black SHe usually favoured . |
| 21 | Gnostic teachers claimed that their dualism explained the origin of evil far better than the orthodox church 's view that the created world comes from a perfectly good and all-powerful God . |
| 22 | But slaves in good households were far better fed , clothed , and housed than the free wage-labourers who formed the majority of the labour force . |
| 23 | However , he played far better yesterday and was heading for a 67 until he unexpectedly dropped shots at both the 16th and 17th . |
| 24 | It was a triumph to see the Grand National from so many angles — far better than being there — to have the camera on the winning boat , to watch the two FA Cup semi-finals , one after the other , and to round off the day with Nigel Mansell 's win in the Brazilian Grand Prix . |
| 25 | Warm-up rants at smaller home-grown affairs in Glasgow , Blackburn and Barry from Gordon Brown , Robin Cook and Tony Blair respectively went down far better with the party activists than the leader 's indigestible offerings , giving an intriguing clue to an uncertain future . |
| 26 | In adjacent streets , there are disused and even derelict buildings which would far better repay investment . |
| 27 | The Tell performance I attended — at Covent Garden on Monday — hung together musically far better than it did two years ago . |
| 28 | EDWINA CURRIE turned down the offer of a job in Mr Major 's Government yesterday , saying that someone else could do the job far better than she could . |
| 29 | However , I felt that someone else could do the job far better than I , so I have declined . ’ |
| 30 | I liked it far better than this North Africa , which is more ‘ civilised ’ and cultivated . |