Example sentences of "it [vb -s] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet historical interpretation of literature fairly easily loses sight of literary interests ; if it goes far enough , the interpreter may assume that the idea of poetry or drama as art can be abandoned , since what counts are cultural traces , of whatever kind , and the ideological impressions they appear to bear . |
| 2 | It goes far towards helping to account not only for the high and growing degree of relative autonomy from non-Nazi élites enjoyed by Hitler and the Nazi leadership , but also — as the counterweight to terror , repression , and intimidation — for the weakness of resistance to the regime . |
| 3 | I welcome the Bill , but I do not believe it goes far enough . |
| 4 | If the Bill had stopped there , we would have supported it as an unnecessary but reasonably harmless measure , but it goes far beyond the type of incident about which we are all deeply worried . |
| 5 | In relation to the Special Document , whilst I support the document er , as far as it goes with one exception , and that 's in relation to the unemployed members , but whilst I support it as far as it goes , I do n't believe it goes far enough . |
| 6 | As a result of the vast range of clothing and household goods that Savacentre sells , it receives far more customer returns than the average JS branch . |
| 7 | The issue of planning is complex since it involves far more than merely accepting new structures and new forms of co-operation — for in effect it involves recognising a new dimension of financial commitment at a time when money is short . |
| 8 | And although home ownership has proved a profitable investment during most of the decade , with house prices rising by an average of around 12 per cent , it looks far less so now . |
| 9 | It has far less to do with strategy than with financial bargains struck in the market-place of Whitehall , and with efforts to contain galloping inflation in weapons procurement . |
| 10 | A fox in a chicken run , faced with such an unnaturally generous supply of food , will release its instinct to kill until all the birds are dead , and it has far more than it can possibly cope with . |
| 11 | In Unix , it has succeeded in creating the impression that it has far more of the management , security and support capabilities in place than any of its competitors , and while this may not be entirely valid , time and again in the computer industry , winning the perception is nine tenths of the battle : in the 1970s , it was universally acknowledged among the cognoscenti that Burroughs Corp had by far the best mainframe architecture and operating software , but that did nothing to prevent the vast majority of its users migrating to IBM over time . |
| 12 | It has far reaching implications for the voluntary sector , for any organisations with ACE workers or voluntary workers and for trade unions . |
| 13 | Today , inevitably , like all too many high places , it has far from legendary radio and television installations on top of it . |
| 14 | It has far greater fluidity and dynamism — it avoids the static quality of factual description . |
| 15 | It has far too much legislation and far too much centralisation . |
| 16 | The OALD prides itself on the number and quality of its examples — it contains far more than any comparable dictionary . |
| 17 | Yes , it matters far more than most people have grasped in this trivialised campaign . |
| 18 | Although it happens far less frequently , a divorced man can rely on his former wife 's contribution record during the years they were married to improve his basic pension . |
| 19 | It is funny , painful and moving , and although it is rooted in the detail of individual lives , it says far more about the way we live than the windy bellicosity of much of Brenton 's previous work . |
| 20 | It sees far fewer categories of goods or services as being susceptible to trade , and in particular sees companies as communities rather than commodities , basing wages on structured scales rather than market rates or productivity achievements . |
| 21 | It is an autobiographical poem and though it ranges far from Brigflatts in its subject matter , it is Northern in its very essence and its tongue is the tongue of the Dales . |
| 22 | It takes far less time than full-scale autobiography , for we are looking for a profile of the significant events that have made you the distinctive person that you are ( warts and all , as they say ) . |
| 23 | The reason for MI5 's inefficiency is that it wastes far too much time and resources chasing after the wrong sort of people who it believes to be subversive , while real enemies of the state are able to go on spying undetected for decades . |
| 24 | It appears far below , framed by near-vertical cliffs on both sides of a vast hollow into which the narrow road plunges in a series of sharp zigzags . |
| 25 | Although his brother later made the excuse that it was too hot that day , late November , it seems far more likely that he simply got drunk . |
| 26 | It seems far more reasonable to accept the great progress that Christian thinking has brought , while understanding the equally valid Christian teaching that man is a wretched sinner and needs to be changed . |
| 27 | But it seems far from unlikely that other explorers might have visited the Dogon in the intervening period , passing on the latest scientific information . |
| 28 | While much economic theory ascribes the sustained economic growth of post-war decades to the liberalisation of trade and the lowering of tariff barriers through GATT negotiations , it seems far more likely that the real engine of growth has been credit-creation , begun by governments through the Marshall plan and other state-initiated measures but continued through the combined efforts at financial innovation of transnational corporations and banks in issuing tradeable commercial paper . |
| 29 | It may be hard to tell " large " from " small " , or to bring classical and quantum objects into consistent association , but it seems far less perplexing to find a difference between the mental and the physical and so to attribute a special property to the interface of consciousness at which they meet each other . |
| 30 | It seems far more important to me to provide an effective and clear demonstration of those virtues of the product that you are trying to put across than to lose the proposition in the attempt to set up a credible context for it . |