Example sentences of "in a far " in BNC.
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| 1 | Television may have made inroads on the number of live spectators but , if anything , it has encouraged a greater degree of participation in a far wider range of activities . |
| 2 | With Mr Milken 's pronounced bias towards debt , he and his raiders left companies in a far more precarious financial shape than they found them . |
| 3 | Only North , according to his notebooks , tried to counter in Tehran with something similar. : ‘ Because I am a Christian , I understand and believe that when one dies in faith he will spend eternity in a far better place . ’ |
| 4 | If you had n't been here we 'd all be in a far worse pickle . |
| 5 | This disciplined approach was unusual for the time , and indeed , many later medieval wars were conducted in a far more haphazard manner . |
| 6 | When Friends of the Earth researched the tapwater survey of England and Wales run in the Observer in 1989 , they found that lead exceeded the legal limit in a far larger and more widely distributed number of supplies than had previously been supposed . |
| 7 | ‘ It would be just , I think , if he were made to use his talents in a far more worthy cause . |
| 8 | He died as active as ever and , although only forty-five , had already crammed more into that space of time than most people manage in a far longer span . |
| 9 | And both movements are in the throes of similar internal debates between those who believe that a step-by-step , incremental approach to reform is the best means to make progress and those who believe in a far more absolutist confrontational approach . |
| 10 | Gypsies and other travelling people retain an instinctive awareness of the significance of sites and the flow of subtle energies through the seasons in a far stronger form than more settled people . |
| 11 | Immediately on his arrival , Louis had installed the exiled Stuart in a palace at St Germain-en-Laye , where he lived in a far more impressive style than most royal exiles . |
| 12 | Although more resilient , and easier to handle as well as coming in a far higher range of breaking strains ( up to 200kg or over 400 1 b ) , braid is still vulnerable to kinks and twists . |
| 13 | She writes that in August 1941 , before the Final Solution orders were given , Goebbels complained to Hitler that ‘ Antonescu proceeds in these matters in a far more radical fashion than we have done up to the present . ’ |
| 14 | The sapphire and diamond ring , first revealed this week in TODAY , and the gold wedding band had their origins in a far humbler place — her own studio in the quiet cathedral city of Winchester , Hants . |
| 15 | But I do want us to realise that evil today has to be faced in a far more fundamental and crucial theatre of war : it is in the processes and ideologies of the modern world itself that we find the destructive , impersonal and heartless force of the Dark Power . |
| 16 | The great mechanical cosmos understood in terms of cause and effect , and symbolised technologically in the mechanistic world of the age of steam , was reinterpreted in a far more sophisticated and brilliant new scientific synthesis , the theory of relativity ( first propounded by Albert Einstein in 1905 ) . |
| 17 | Rover , although in a far healthier financial state than before , was not considered suitable for a similar sale of shares to the public . |
| 18 | And start to treat your hair in a far better way . |
| 19 | Certainly within science they are to be found in a highly concentrated form and used in a far more rigorous and systematic fashion . |
| 20 | Having laid the groundwork of his interest , the politician had to be ready when election time rolled around again , and at that point an incumbent who could re-apply to constituents whom he had frequent occasion to meet , and ask them for a continuation of their friendship , without suggesting for a moment that any of them had a duty to support him in recognition of an implied bargain for past favours , was in a far stronger position than a man whose only contacts with his constituents took the form of patronage letters . |
| 21 | However , for others the condition may present in a far more insidious and subtle manner , the constant yawning or sighing , the one deep breath in three , excessive sniffing , each of these may account for the reduced levels of carbon dioxide in the lungs , which over time leads to the ‘ chronic hyperventilation syndrome ’ . |
| 22 | To the conventions of the romantic historical novel , then , Anthony Hope added the colour of society in his day and the pattern of love and courtship which appear , in a far less interesting way , in his novels of his own London society , and he drew in a more general way from the Victorian version of medieval chivalry , with its idealisation of woman and its desire for service to an ideal . |
| 23 | For these reasons it is the delightful little Concerto which comes over with the greatest conviction though the recording acoustic is far too resonant for the essentially intimate character of the writing ; and the sound in general affords too much prominence to the continuo which booms away in a far from discreet manner . |
| 24 | The infra-structure was encouraged with the development of railways , ports and roads : the preoccupation with railway construction reflected military concern and , as Bruce Cumings has remarked , helped to put Korea in a far more favourable situation vis-à-vis other developing countries in 1945 . |
| 25 | Provided we take enough water with us there 's no reason why we should n't be able to hold out for a considerable time in the banqueting hall , which is in a far better situation for defence … and let me remind you that with every passing day , relief comes nearer … perhaps as much as twenty miles nearer with every day 's march … |
| 26 | But er you 'll be in a far safer position if you actually produce your licence on the twenty fifth of October . |
| 27 | But er you 'll be in a far safer position if you actually produce your licence on the twenty fifth of October . |
| 28 | Whether one is ‘ sticking close to the knitting ’ ( Peters and Waterman , 1982 ; Redding , 1990 ) by focusing only on what one knows well , in a family business , or whether one is involved in imperatively co-ordinating only a fairly specific range of business-related activity , as in typical Japanese enterprises , leaving the broader picture to the inter-market relations and to state planning , one is certainly involved in a far more restricted and less audacious exercise of planning than one would be in trying to plan the twenty or thirty unrelated businesses of the typical conglomerate . |
| 29 | While for some this may be evident enough in the society of mass consumption , it has equally commonly been assumed that this degree of variability is an aberrant result of the wastage of modern capitalism , and that the ‘ pristine ’ subjects of social anthropology live in a far closer relationship with the given needs of their environment ( e.g. Forde 1934 ) . |
| 30 | Since I accept his primary submission I do not find it necessary to consider his other options , but I observe that in every case they would involve the court in a far more creative exercise in framing the law , which I doubt we would be entitled to undertake , than by holding as I would do that a corporate public authority has no right to sue for the tort of defamation and is to be left , if necessary , to such other rights as it may have , in particular the right to sue for malicious falsehood . |