Example sentences of "[pron] far [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I could remember nothing further back than the time I was walking over that miserable plain .
2 I hope that my further work and the work of others around the world will help to clarify the advantages of the fifty millesimal potencies over the centesimal potencies .
3 My further example of the stylistics of self-reference , from the writings of Michael Riffaterre , is a more recent instance of deviation-theory , but assigns to it a more restricted role than the Prague School did within the literary text .
4 I could look forward to going back to school , astonishing everyone with my further weight loss , and engaging in battle with true adversaries — those who would fight back .
5 Any of my old school friends in Wallingford that know me er well they 'll just never believe that I can run 26 miles because I do n't know if when you were at school , but when er when we used to have a cross-country run I was the one at the back and usually the P E instructor used to go round and whack us with a slipper , you know the slow ones and I was unfortunately one of those , but er now I 've been running with the Bicester Road Runners for what 2 years , er half , I 've done a few half marathons , nothing anywhere near 26 miles , I 've , my furthest run until yesterday was 16 miles , and yesterday , injured , with a bandage round my knee , I managed 18 miles , and I 'm pleased to say it 's still holding out and I 'm quietly confident that I 'm going to complete this , and like I say , if I can er well , just get the local businesses in Bicester interested and to support me , I say however small , just a , you know , if they , a penny a mile from just a few of the businesses in Bicester and , well , the Bible school could have , you know , a few pounds coming to them , which I 'm sure they 'd be , you know , greatly received .
6 Peering out along the pontoon , he could see the contrasting starkness of new wood at its farther end , the only trace in all this orderly solitude of what had occurred there eighteen months before .
7 By exoticizing them , it even colluded in their further disenfranchisement .
8 They had seemed quite satisfied with his answers to their further questions , piddling little questions about the baby 's weight and hair and eye color , about the progress of the birth .
9 To their further questions I answered that I was too tired to speak .
10 Although the US , or at least the State Department , ‘ frankly [ had ] no solution of problem to suggest ’ it was obvious that the US was at this stage hoping for a negotiated settlement , a settlement in which their further hope was that France would find it possible to be more than generous .
11 The failure of the continuation school movement shows that the class position of the prospective pupils , rather than any age relationship , determined that the significance of their labour power was more important than their further education , however that may have been defined .
12 I think erm many men have changed their attitudes erm towards women , particularly since erm men and women were educated together in colleges in their further education , because they 've shared their life together before marrying , before having children , and I think young men have become much more erm domesticated , if you like , I think that 's the only way to say it .
13 De Corpore contains only hints about these sciences , and their further development is in the other two parts of Hobbes 's Elements of Philosophy — De Homine and De Cive .
14 Their work is not accounted for , and so their further development potential is grossly neglected .
15 But he emphasizes very strongly that in no way does this mean that there is no longer scope for their further development , or that their return to profitability is a flash in the pan , to be reversed whenever the next downturn comes .
16 Later contemporaries of Edward , namely Boniface VIII and Clement V ( who was Edward 's own subject ) , emphasized the tradition of papal legislation in this period by their further additions to the body of canon law .
17 ( 5 ) Management and institutions then subscribe their shares ( in management 's case , their further shares ) in Newco , and Newco completes the acquisition of Target .
18 It may well be worth surveying the teachers ' intentions and , later , their further use as a guide to improving long-term take-up .
19 Prior to the meeting , the purchaser and MAS will need to establish their further information requirements distinguishing between that which will need to be investigated before more precise deal terms can be negotiated and that which will need to be seen before a deal can be completed .
20 Well , in their further training our qualified teachers and trainers are brought into contact with a great variety of influences , to widen their horizons and enrich their teaching .
21 Mr Brown refused to say how the papers had been shown to him or to disclose their further contents .
22 The time spent on the High Court bench will also impose its further stamp upon the potential appellate judge .
23 If we accept the Jefkins definition , then we must also accept its further implication — ‘ that PR exists whether an organisation likes it or not ’ .
24 ‘ Defence has been perfected to a remarkable degree , ’ he said , ‘ and I have heard it suggested that through its further development football may be brought to a state of stalemate … it will be a sorry reflection on forwards if they have not the intelligence , the inventiveness to devise means by which they can carry their attack to a successful end . ’
25 The Third Period concerns its further development .
26 Rather , many contemporaries were impressed by the growing capacity of some at least of the working class to practice self- and mutual-help and they sought ways of encouraging its further development .
27 The very conditions which had originally supported the expansion of the model now turned into limits to its further development .
28 For Marx , democracy is a historical phenomenon which is far from having unfolded all its possibilities , and the principal agent of its further development is the working-class movement .
29 If we regard stateless tribal societies as being in some measure representative of very early human societies , we can then ask what causes have brought the state into existence and assured its further development .
30 Is not it also true that , next year , its further development will be restricted to three more blocks , whereas there are 170 tower blocks in Glasgow in which it has not yet been developed ?
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