Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] far " in BNC.
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| 31 | You can see from the results that my 486SX machine falls far short of the results achieved by the standard 386DX . |
| 32 | ( 2 ) When the clothing lasts far longer than even the best quality jeans , and costs no more , how will the agents maintain a business based on clothes bought near enough once in a lifetime ? ( 3 ) Is anyone stupid enough to want to wear heavy-duty , fur-lined , withstands-bloody-cold-arctic-conditions clothing in the summer ? |
| 33 | Thus the sphere of influence of Tyneside spreads far out into the surrounding countryside and along the coast . |
| 34 | The vendors ' first response to a request for warranties is likely to be that they should not be required to give any because the management knows far more about the day-to-day running of the company than they do . |
| 35 | This right goes far beyond the rights of rejection otherwise granted by the SGA . |
| 36 | The difference goes far deeper than the political complexion of the government . |
| 37 | We can see here that citizenship goes far beyond learning about Marshall 's ‘ citizenship of entitlement ’ and extends into cultivating the practice of citizenship , the promotion of a sense of community , social cohesion , and ‘ civic virtue . |
| 38 | Yet in its turn climate goes far to set limits to the use that can be made of the physical features of the country in which we live . |
| 39 | It is a measure of the importance we now attach to sport , that although few either know or care who the latest Minister of Sport is , we pay our national team bosses far more than members of the Cabinet . |
| 40 | He has only to look at what happened to Colin McFadyean at Bristol and Malcolm Lewis at Nuneaton to see that the job has far more snakes than ladders . |
| 41 | Wayne has far more things to obsess him than himself . |
| 42 | Newman and Nichols , in a study of a 60–80-year-old group in North Carolina , confirmed this and noted , as had Kinsey , that the extent of sexual activity in later years depends far more on the intrinsic sexual drive of the individual than on relative age considerations . |
| 43 | This design of eye reveals far less detail than a camera eye . |
| 44 | But his fame stretches far beyond Sedbergh and the Moorcock Inn and tonight he 's donning his showman 's hat for fans at the Tyne Theatre Newcastle . |
| 45 | House officers also need to know what to do if their job falls far short of the recommended standards . |
| 46 | One can still enter through a narrow stone gateway , though now a new town spreads far beyond the confines of its walls . |
| 47 | But while he indicates that there are such criteria for distinguishing between dominant and subordinate instances , Althusser pays far more attention to the relation between the dominant instance and economic practice , which itself constitutes a second sort of criterion for identifying the dominant instance . |
| 48 | You 'll find that the usefulness of the various kinds of map-making extends far beyond the obvious curriculum links with maths and geography . |
| 49 | The site operators enforce safety controls far tougher than those insisted on by Government . |
| 50 | But drinking too much over a period of months or years damages far more than the nervous system . |
| 51 | ‘ In fact , Ed knows far more about endorsement details these days than Martinez , who is mainly concerned with the big-time sponsors and the top brass at the TV companies . |
| 52 | The elite trainees may frequently enjoy higher prestige ( 'Our son Justin is training to be a doctor' sounds far more impressive than ‘ Our lad Jim 's a barrow-boy ’ ) . |
| 53 | Indeed , the evidence goes far to bear out the criticisms made by More in Utopia . |
| 54 | The Kempton race looks far stronger with Granville Again , Mighty Mogul and Oh So Risky all likely runners . |
| 55 | This means that the language of literature is no longer regarded as subordinated to the message supposedly carried by the text , and this emptiness of content illustrates far more powerfully than could anything else the primacy of language itself . |
| 56 | ‘ But we will and really must change the bureaucracy , the remoteness of management , the impersonal care for patients , the frustrations of the staff and the failure to maintain high standards everywhere that the present way of running the service causes far too often . ’ |
| 57 | The figure of more than 3,000 which I just quoted , when compared with 873 similar undertakings in France and 479 in Italy , shows that the United Kingdom has far and away more undertakings with more than 1,000 employees than either of our major European partners . |
| 58 | The painful spiritual growth of Bleek , his learning that love is more important than music , is acceptable enough , but Lee concentrates far too much on his own character , a much less sympathetic figure than was intended . |
| 59 | In each of these episodes , Pynchon releases far more information than Stencil registers , so that evidence proliferates far beyond the latter 's tendentious inferences . |
| 60 | The resettlement programme for peasant families lags far behind its targets . |