Example sentences of "[art] far [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While literature in the West concerns itself with little more than sex and other people 's books , there on the farther shore writers matter . |
| 2 | In other references dhamma is the raft on which men may cross the ocean of existence to the farther shore of Nirvana . |
| 3 | He saw the pond they called the lake and the grey bulk of the Mithraeum on the farther shore . |
| 4 | The river 's edge , where Virgil 's ghosts held out their arms in longing for the farther shore , and Dante , as a living man , was refused passage by the ferryman , the few planks that mark the meeting point of land and water , there , surely , is a place to stop and reflect , even if , as Father Watson did , you stumble over a ten-gallon tin of creosote . |
| 5 | They watched it clear the farther hedge and disappear into the wood beyond the river . |
| 6 | As she reached the gate at the farther edge she could see right under the low bridge — and as she looked she saw the van turn the bend at the top of the short hill leading to the bridge , and increase speed down it . |
| 7 | Soon they were in grey twilight and could see that the stream bordered the farther edge of the wood . |
| 8 | Sprinting across it , he reached a particularly thick-trunked tree at the farther edge . |
| 9 | The visitors expressed a desire to see the farther end of the garden . |
| 10 | She sort of froze for a moment , tried to smile and not smile at the same time , looked uncomprehendingly at me , turned ever so slightly towards the farther side of the road from me and walked away with quick nervous steps . |
| 11 | And yards out from the farther side of the-marsh , too far from the side to be even touched by hand , was a chestnut pony , trapped nearly up to his flanks in the quicksilver morass helpless and desperate . |
| 12 | Dolly , sitting on the floor against the wall on the farther side of the bed , reached and tugged a blanket free . |
| 13 | Something moved on the farther side of the lochan , something hulky and dirty white , caught in the bog myrtle , where it shifted and billowed in the breeze . |
| 14 | Hazel came out on the farther side of the ilexes and followed the path round a bend . |
| 15 | On the instant , a fearful commotion began on the farther side . |
| 16 | The drive was tree-lined , so they went down the farther side , only visible now and then . |
| 17 | This morning she was on the farther side of the gates raking the gravel into a pattern exact as a piece of embroidery , when Nicandra came tittupping along , her hat hanging by its elastic on the back of her head . |
| 18 | The dry-stone wall on the farther side looked solid and uncompromising . |
| 19 | He slipped from the edge nearest Nora as soon as the hounds entered at the farther side . |
| 20 | Her frock was already soaked , but she paid no heed to that , because she could see she would certainly get wet from feet to head before she reached the farther bank . |
| 21 | The river was in flood and tradition maintains that Coilus was able to cross only by leaping onto a large rock in mid-stream and from it to the farther bank . |
| 22 | He hopped across the ditch to the farther bank and looked round him again . |
| 23 | Fiver was already beyond them and thrusting towards the farther entrance tunnel . |
| 24 | A recent scrutiny by the Monopolies and Mergers Commission commented favourably on the changes that have already been wrought and the further developments that are under way . |
| 25 | We will monitor the further developments and pronouncements of the several bodies presently addressing the subjects of corporate governance and accounting standards . |
| 26 | The further developments seen in Figs. 22.6–22.8 can probably be interpreted in a similar way . |
| 27 | And also there is the issue of where the response er decision which you may have Heathrow terminal five , will in fact , in any future er discussions about er the further developments of Stansted Airport . |
| 28 | This book , therefore , is not only about how men and women in the nineteenth century faced the hour of death ; it is also about what they expected to encounter on the further shore . |
| 29 | Boudiaf was one of the " nine fathers of the revolution " who had organized armed resistance to French rule in the late 1940s , and he enjoyed the further prestige of having spent five years in prison ( 1956-61 ) alongside Ahmed Ben Bella ( later President ) and Ait Ahmed . |
| 30 | The further expansion of Champagne 's vineyards suffered a temporary set-back in the early part of the fifteenth century when the old war with the English was resumed . |