Example sentences of "been [vb pp] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | An angry Queen Victoria , however , felt it had been lifted far too much , particularly over the clashes between Palmerston as foreign secretary and the prince consort . |
| 2 | Once this chronological sequence had been established , a review of the excavation reports of similar work elsewhere showed quite clearly that in a good proportion of cases , town defences had previously been dated far too early , on the basis of residual pottery and coins . |
| 3 | Then one of the four buys the stakes of the other three : suddenly , that single investor emerges with almost a fifthof a quoted company ; the stake — a high platform for any a potential bidder — has been built far more cheaply than if one person had bought alone . |
| 4 | If the island did become detached in the way he suggests , then the mountainous regions in the south would have been separated far longer than the northern parts . |
| 5 | In each case the land has been exploited far beyond its true potential — out of dire necessity during the Wars , and now for blind greed and short-term gain resulting in vast surpluses which can not be eaten or sold . |
| 6 | But it has been used far outside its original setting . |
| 7 | Suppose that what is wanted is large-scale mapping of the city of Leeds , it is likely that snapshots of Ordnance Survey mapping will have been preserved far more frequently , for the practical purposes of town planners etc. , but they will have been preserved not in libraries but in planning offices , and will they have been preserved after the date when they were needed there ? |
| 8 | Since Sartre and Althusser there have been a number of possibilities : for some , the absolute historicism of the Frankfurt School has become increasingly attractive , although in its current manifestation in the work of Habermas we might say that history has been eclipsed far more effectively than by any comparable French philosopher . |
| 9 | He had not been impaled , but the spike had been driven far upwards from near his throat before his body had slumped clear . |
| 10 | They had been driven far further north than he had expected . |
| 11 | I am not sure who is more demoralised by that — the local people , who frequently complain that they do not get a quick response when they need help , or the local police , who attend the crime in an attempt to do the good job that they intended when they entered the police force , knowing that they are likely to be pulled in all directions to answer calls on a blue line that has been pulled far too thin by the Government 's demands . |
| 12 | Friends of the Earth welcomed the licences in principle but said the limits had been set far too high , condemning " vast tracts of countryside to damage by acid rain for decades to come " . |
| 13 | Brotherton & Harris ( 1988 ) point to increased difficulties in arranging back-up services and in discharging patients into community health services , if their hospital services had been provided far from their home locations . |
| 14 | In most liberal democracies complex new policy arenas have been judged far too important to be left in the hands of conventional judges and lawyers . |
| 15 | Although Duncan and Goodwin develop a particular analysis of local government which explains its existence largely in terms of uneven development and the representation of differentiated local social relations ( discussed extensively in Mark Goodwin 's chapter which follows ) , their conclusions here would have been shared far more widely both by academics in the field of local government studies and by many local government politicians ( such as Blunkett and Jackson , 1987 ) . |
| 16 | The powerful structure is in the direct tradition of early Attic heads ( fig. 15 ) , but has been brought far closer to natural forms . |
| 17 | When dye ( or smoke ) has been introduced far upstream within the turbulent region , the boundary of the dyed region closely approximates to the boundary of the turbulent region . |
| 18 | In the history of science theoria has usually been accorded far greater importance than praxis . |
| 19 | Wine is now produced in many areas of the world and the production of vine fruits has also been spread far and wide . |
| 20 | The preaching of the existence of a provident god who would supply all needs , was no doubt generally of good intent , but such preaching has been taken far too literally , especially by uneducated peoples , and the outcome has been a reduced sense of personal responsibility permitting , among other things , the production of large numbers of children for whom the progenitors had not the slightest hope of providing . |
| 21 | The late Nancy Mitford blew it out of all proportion by her ‘ snobbish ’ ( often tongue-incheek ) writings , which have been taken far too seriously by many . |
| 22 | But young farm workers today are part of the post-war generation of rural inhabitants who have been subjected far more than preceding generations to the cultural influences and judgements of wider society . |
| 23 | The next-door train had been left far behind . |
| 24 | When all these lights had been left far behind him and there was nothing but darkness on either side , Gazzer was still running . |
| 25 | But for Iain such everyday adolescent misadventures have already been left far behind . |
| 26 | Then it had suddenly been galloping over the sleeping bodies of a large wolf pack and , again , its mad speed had been such that the furious yelping had been left far behind . |
| 27 | While Scotland 's forwards have battled hard and bravely and produced plenty of ball all season , the back division have been left far behind in talent and imagination . |
| 28 | Young graduates over the years have been sent far and wide in search of that elusive first job . |
| 29 | I guessed that she had been blown far from her oasis , and now there was no landmark other than the wheelbarrow , not a tree , not a blade of grass , not a ripple on the plain , nor a rock bigger than my fist . |
| 30 | My attention here has been held far more by the enigma of syntactic structure , and how its development might mesh with the conceptual analyses of meaning and intentionality offered by philosophers of language . |