Example sentences of "in far [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In far away Haiti a young black Methodist minister , Philip Potter , who would one day be Secretary of the World Council of Churches , mulled over the book as he struggled with villainy in a very poor and very sad land . |
| 2 | THE national championships begin in Newcastle today with Martine Le Moignan , the world champion , and Del Harris , the England No.1 , defending their British titles in far less confident mood than would have been the case a few months ago . |
| 3 | In addition , people are influenced by their own preconceptions , which will have evolved , in all but the very young , in far less enlightened times . |
| 4 | But all over Britain , in far less august surroundings , every day equally serious damage is done to people playing all sorts of sport from karate to table tennis . |
| 5 | She wanted to tell of the flogging he 'd had , not in far off Jamaica , but here in England , but the forbidding frown and her own instinctive suspicion of strangers kept her silent . |
| 6 | However , the issue is a lively one today , since some contemporary utilitarians adopt a highly rigorist outlook ( arguing , for example , that not to have done all one personally might to feed the starving in far off places is as bad as murder ) which other moral philosophers see as the reductio ad absurdum of utilitarianism . |
| 7 | Experts say young travellers are especially prone to problems in far off places and in different cultures . |
| 8 | In the Osma system , a small hole in each pipe connector tells you when you have pushed the pipe in far enough to allow for expansion : 10mm is normally allowed . |
| 9 | This was , however , his notorious Reichstag speech on 30 January 1939 , when , in far more menacing fashion than ever before , Hitler made his threatening ‘ prophecy ’ that a new war would bring ‘ the destruction of the Jewish race in Europe ’ . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , reviews within the periphery did begin to deal with the relationship between form and content in far more radical ways than left or core reviews were prepared to do and were even able to hint at possible political meanings that might be derived from this process . |
| 11 | A propaganda of peace based on the readiness of objectors to undergo hard labour was likely to meet with derision , if not anger , at a time when hundreds of thousands of young men were fighting and dying for their country in far more appalling conditions . |
| 12 | In the end , though , we are reminded that The Smiths ' four proper albums represented these songs in far more forceful contexts , from the arrogant hesitation of ‘ The Smiths ’ through to the extraordinary confidence , wit and power of ‘ The Queen Is Dead ’ and onwards , we notice that things like ‘ Reel Around The Fountain ’ just do n't sit comfortably in the middle of a Fun Corporate Pop album , and in the end we say ‘ Are you too idle to buy the proper original records rather than fork out for ‘ Best … |
| 13 | But the sociologist of religion is interested in far more complicated questions than merely who would call themselves Methodist , Muslim or Mormon — or the proportion of each faith that attends a place of worship each day or week or month , or commits suicide in a particular year . |
| 14 | He addressed us now for the first time , in far more lucid Indonesian than we had ever heard from his elders . |
| 15 | But while mathematical models work hand in hand with research directors in the laboratory , other company executives are appreciating the power of computational science in far more pleasurable surroundings . |
| 16 | There were enough provisions here to feed her for a week — and in far more luxury than she would have dreamt of buying for herself . |
| 17 | The end of the B version depicts hell and heaven in far more conventional terms , allowing these conventional limits to dominate the parameters in which Faustus 's actions may be interpreted . |
| 18 | Both in far more pleasant to the eye |
| 19 | Rarely is the customer consulted ; in far too many cases the regular is a powerless bystander as his or her pub is transformed by identikit ‘ Victoriana ’ . |
| 20 | I would have enjoyed them even more had I not been about to faint every ten yards , but I was in far too bad a mood to tell my colleagues to slow down and wait for me . |
| 21 | In far too many instances real hard preparatory work is confined to well trained union negotiators . |
| 22 | In far too many management jobs there is the tyranny of the in-tray . |
| 23 | Because of the very obvious advantages of growing in containers the practice , in far too many hands , has become a circus . |
| 24 | In far too many companies this is viewed as being somebody well down the line , very frequently a section manager , who is ‘ the only one you can get a decision out of ’ , or ‘ the only one who actually knows ’ . |
| 25 | It is in fact a movement : a coming together of teachers whose common conviction it is that teaching up to now has been conducted in far too random and amateurish a fashion , based at best on a kind of inspired guesswork , and that it ought to be possible by putting our minds to it , and applying the sort of thinking that is successful in other fields , to do a better job than before . |
| 26 | The zip gaped open an inch at his waist , which was cinched in far too tightly by a fake crocodile belt . |
| 27 | " No good , Peter — I 've been in court in far too many fraud cases . |