Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mountain , in the Pakistan Karakoram , is sometimes known as Masherbrum Far West , and appears to have been climbed only once before by an Italian team . |
| 2 | Half a million different laws ( although no one knows for certain how many ) have insured that the legal system is rigged , keeping the cost of formality far beyond the reach of the average small Peruvain entrepreneur . |
| 3 | Experience in many hundreds of practise field selections and approaches in a motor glider show the most common faults to be : leaving the choice of field far too late , and poor planning and judgement of the circuit and approach . |
| 4 | She had seen and lived in lots of houses far superior to this one , it implied . |
| 5 | This point was expressed by Lord Herschell in Vagliano as follows : I am of course far from asserting that resort may never be had to the previous state of the law for the purpose of aiding in the construction of the provisions of the code . |
| 6 | erm In that sense , whereas of course in the case of primary schools there 've been fewer resources but of course far fewer students . |
| 7 | The bulk of Germany 's railways were established between 1848 and 1877 , but even then they served the west of Germany far better than they served the east . |
| 8 | In the Driftwood at St Agnes , the pub talk also invariably turns to Morocco , although the tales of waves far outnumber the eulogies to drug and carpet buying . |
| 9 | The difference between this and our normal looking may seem small but it is fundamental , since the mental attitude of recognizing the active deed of directing a finger of looking to touch the building is experienced as a real extension of consciousness far beyond the limits of the physical body . |
| 10 | Feelings of grief far outweighed thoughts of revenge . |
| 11 | Gripping the ski-poles I tried to keep myself steady as the velocity increased and then , all of a sudden I sailed over the edge and felt myself going head over heels towards a white mass of snow far below . |
| 12 | The salted scent of the sea told her of fishing far off on La Blanquilla . |
| 13 | EVERYONE remembers those school trip tragedies which have claimed the lives of youngsters far from home . |
| 14 | Like the British , the Danes have watched with growing alarm as the institutions of the EEC have begun to take control of matters far beyond what was thought to be their original remit . |
| 15 | The new manufacturing towns were growing around collections of villages in the north of England far removed from the privileges of the chartered municipal corporations . |
| 16 | Between 1934 and 1937 it invalidated a string of measures initiated by President Roosevelt and passed by Congress to attempt to deal with the economic depression , while between 1954 and 1963 it made a series of decisions regarding the rights of blacks far in advance of anything that could obtain strong presidential and congressional support . |
| 17 | The US administration claimed that the recent dramatic increase in the numbers of refugees far exceeded the total of 12,500 who could be accommodated at Guantánamo . |
| 18 | Yet most modern models of language , from Saussure 's onwards , give a fuller and more coherent account of it than traditional grammar ever did , and therefore offer the possibility of describing the linguistic features of texts far more exactly than was possible with the rag-bag of grammatical and metaphorical terminology on which criticism has traditionally depended . |
| 19 | It is that the sum of currency deposits held outside their country of origin far exceed the sum of the NOSTRO/VOSTRO accounts to which they nominally correspond . |
| 20 | The biggest provincial cities and towns had reached a stage of urbanisation at which the scale of wealth far exceeded that of the countryside . |
| 21 | I think er , we need to er , look at this issue of carers far more rigorously , and I 'm very sad that the government , having made a great play about back to basics and er , encouraging family values , erm , are not in fact prepared er , to do something to er , alleviate unemployment by encouraging employers to make adequate provision to ensure that people with dependants can actually work . |
| 22 | It is instructive to compare the ways the forest is exploited by two groupings of Amerindians far apart on the terra firme of Amazonia , the Jivaro , in the west under the slopes of the Andes , and the Kayapo in the east . |
| 23 | Interestingly , it is the semantic anomaly that probably makes this kind of joke far easier to translate from English into another language than the jokes which depend on sound-play or polysemy . |
| 24 | In this way , such studies give the subjective wants and goals of individuals far more centrality as explanations of change . |
| 25 | On land , the weight of plants far exceeds the weight of the animal–that feed on them . |
| 26 | But the number of applicants far outweighed the spaces available . |
| 27 | At this scale , the costs of duplication far outweigh the benefits of competition — especially as each machine would be host to more than one experiment , allowing internal competition free rein . |
| 28 | When our turn came , I could see the rifles and guns lying on the table and the long queue of lorries , leaving the land of oranges far behind and spreading out over the winding roads of Lebanon . |
| 29 | As the plane hangs in darkness over a net of lights far below , Kate looks in amazement at her new sandals and the label on her hand luggage . |
| 30 | Newington Butts had the dark , deserted look of night far advanced . |