Example sentences of "[prep] the far " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he had ethnographic remarks to make about both Spain ( Strabo 3.4.17 ) and Gaul ( 4.4.6 ) , and he seems to have prepared the way for the far more comprehensive enquiry of Posidonius . |
| 2 | In the later Vogue piece only the style remained as the far more overtly sexual , Kahloesque models lounged and pouted in their ‘ Mexican ’ interiors . |
| 3 | They seem to have got through the far more alarming Crick without hysteria , but at Bosworth , some of the beauty and fashion displayed ‘ strong symptoms of fear ’ . |
| 4 | Hall guides us through the far more tortuous path that led Newton to his discoveries and explains why not all his many critics can be dismissed simply as benighted traditionalists . |
| 5 | At least it took her mind off the far less confident emotions that she was feeling on her own account . |
| 6 | There soars the moon from the rim of the far off sea . |
| 7 | They found that while nearly everyone had heard of gonorrhoea and AIDS , only a few had heard of the far more common chlamydial and trichomoniasis infections . |
| 8 | I was vividly aware of the far reaching and vast contribution that Basil had made to education , to values , to the good influences of the Authority on teachers and children , colleges , schools and students , and I am of the privileged few who were able to work with Basil in the early days of struggles , so I know how much , how very much he did — So I felt that at least he had fulfilled — as nearly as we can ever judge — so much of his life 's work even to the developments in his own personal creative medium — and this must be a comfort to you as well as to us who knew him as a friend and colleague . |
| 9 | Thus far Cadfael had deferred his own news in favour of the far more urgent word brought back by these battered survivors from the forests of Leicestershire . |
| 10 | For whom the news of his ships , far from mortifying , must have signalled the approach of the far greater fleet he was awaiting . |
| 11 | Despite the far greater sophistication ( and cost to users ) of RDS , Carfax appears to remain the superior approach , permitting local traffic announcements to be made as soon as information is available to broadcasters . |
| 12 | For much of his Mastership the stipend paid by the Company actually fell below the far from lavish £10 to only £9 . |
| 13 | They 're not girlfriendly ‘ cute ’ like the far more successful Charlatans ; they 're not a ‘ lads ’ band , like the Happy Mondays , who are finally becoming MTV regulars . |
| 14 | Ranged against the far more powerful pro-Israel lobby , the groups have so far had little impact on policy . |
| 15 | A tiny remote voice in her brain told her she was crazy , that this whole thing was crazy , but it was instantly silenced , reason standing no chance against the far stronger forces of sheer need . |
| 16 | But outside the Nazi Movement , the objective function of the ‘ Führer myth ’ was rather to integrate into the Third Reich , through association with the far more popular and attractive aspects of Nazi rule symbolized by Hitler , the mass of ‘ ordinary ’ and ‘ non-organized ’ Germans for whom the ‘ Jewish Question ’ retained only a relatively low level of importance . |
| 17 | The fact that English judges are recruited almost exclusively from the ranks of successful practising barristers has also had the effect of narrowing considerably the background from which judges are drawn , even in comparison with the far from represen-tative magistracy . |
| 18 | Yet in Christ that barrier has been broken down , along with the far bigger wall separating both Jew and Gentile from God . |
| 19 | During the civil war , Palestinian guerrillas moved into the far more impressive fortress of Beaufort on the heights above the Litani River , from where they could gaze deep into Israel — or into Palestine as they would insist — and shell the Lebanese Christian villages in between . |
| 20 | In the remoter corners of water authority empires , which have had little more than a decade in which to professionalize themselves since their formation in 1974 , gangs of river maintenance staff inherited from the far less environmentally accountable river boards have guarded their independence from interference by senior central management within their own organizations . |
| 21 | The wealth of scholarship in which the book luxuriates sometimes deflects from the far simpler scientific story ; that seismicity in the different regions of Iran varies through time , and that it is possible , from a complete analysis of the history , to find patterns in this shifting activity . |
| 22 | The most difficult job is to separate carbon-14 from the far more abundant carbon-12 . |
| 23 | The central event of the former 's pontificate can hardly fail to be seen as Humanae Vitae in 1968 , central because its publication marked a watershed separating the first years of enthusiasm , of an optimistic post-conciliar implementation in which Rome and leading Catholic theologians were still working more or less hand in hand ( as they had done in the latter years of the Council ) from the far more contestatory and unsure later period . |
| 24 | The frenzied living for ourselves which we once used to value so highly now disappears before the far more vital longing to keep company with God in faith , hope and love . |
| 25 | In the far more competitive world of private education there is a great deal of collaborative effort including the setting up and running of the Independent Schools Information Service which produces publicity pamphlets and booklets . |
| 26 | In the far more complex factory environment the skilled maintenance engineer is likely to have a role for some considerable time yet . |
| 27 | Whereas the aims of the work of civilization accomplished by France in her colonies rule out all idea of autonomy and all possibility of development outside the French Empire ; [ therefore ] the eventual constitution , even in the far off future , of self-government in the colonies is out of the question . |
| 28 | But Belinda says they ended up in the far from deserted capital of Rarotonga . |
| 29 | The statistic is only an informed assumption , and no one offers one in the far more delicate field of photography . |
| 30 | But most of all they were underlain by an intellectual transformation , by the victory of the modern idea of territorial sovereignty over the far older one of feudal dependence . |