Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] far [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The second and most detailed stage will be a series of three interview surveys : of solicitors , to establish the amount and kinds of work they do ; of general legal services , such as the Citizens ' Advice Bureaux , to establish how far they complement or duplicate the service provided by solicitors ; and of a sample of the population from selected parishes to find out the kinds of issues that have caused individuals to resort to legal advice . |
| 2 | To A. M. Fairbairn , one had to visit America ‘ to discover how far we have travelled out of the darkness towards the light ’ , while to R. F. Horton , it was a land with ‘ truth open to all who have eyes to see it and those who have not eyes held in wholesome restraint from meddling with those who have ’ . |
| 3 | After some three months have passed it is often wise to conduct a full review of the new systems and to discover how far they have progressed . |
| 4 | It was clearly a spot height — in fact there was a small stone to mark it , but it was almost hidden in rough grass and gorse , and Maggie really did n't want to know how far they had climbed . |
| 5 | But say the figure had been erm fo he 's travelling at forty eight point three miles an hour , and you want to know how far he 's gone after twenty seven minutes or something , it 's a bit more awkward then so it 'd be easier to look it up on a graph . |
| 6 | Unfortunately , unlike its predecessor it has no score system ( I always like to know how far I 've got in a game ) , but I presume this is due to memory restrictions . |
| 7 | Floy glanced over his shoulder , trying to gauge how far they had come and in which direction the road now lay . |
| 8 | You may like to consider how far you agree with this view . |
| 9 | The rest of this paper will look at the care programme approach in practice , to judge how far it meets , or can meet , its goals . |
| 10 | Indeed the aim of the work was to demonstrate how far he had fallen from ancestral glories , in order that his successors might rectify his errors . |
| 11 | The competition was to take place in August and , although she was for ever panicking about what they still could n't do , she tended to overlook how far they had come from first beginnings . |
| 12 | I really have to watch how far I push myself these days , though . |
| 13 | Cos the purpose of the exercise is for us to see how far we 've come , but the most important purpose of the exercise is to determine where we wan na go . |
| 14 | The usual definition of ‘ chutzpah ’ is a small boy peeing through someone 's letter box , then ringing the doorbell to see how far it went . |
| 15 | They therefore look to social stratification to see how far it meets these functional prerequisites . |
| 16 | Then he started to see how far I had gone . |
| 17 | It 's very hard to see how far I have come . |
| 18 | A small , suspicious caution held her back : a small caution teased Cliff , teased Steve , teased her friends , kept them on a hook , watching , waiting , to see how far she dared go . |
| 19 | But such an explanation is surely ridiculous to the modern reader forced to realize how far he stands from an age when mythological explanations were permissible . |
| 20 | ‘ Your friends asked me to measure how far you have come . |
| 21 | It is up to him to ascertain how far he wishes to travel and by what route . |
| 22 | To get this far they had to swim from their breeding grounds in the Gulf of Mexico . |
| 23 | The data are piling up thick and fast , and it is time that we paused to examine how far we have travelled and which direction we should now follow . |
| 24 | But the main reason was that I wanted to explain how far I felt we had come in our understanding of the universe : how we might be near finding a complete theory that would describe the universe and everything in it . |
| 25 | It was his intention to people it with English colonists , but it is difficult to say how far he succeeded , since there is virtually no information about the civilian population of Calais . |
| 26 | Unveiling the proposals , Delors called on the United Kingdom government to clarify how far it intended to go towards EMU . |
| 27 | The winger 's dramatically improved form has been a key factor in Norwich 's surprise success and Fox believes that a visit to Manchester United , which also sees the return of £800,000 striker Mark Robins to Old Trafford , will provide the perfect stage to show how far he has progressed . |