Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | BT could , if given the incentive and the wherewithal , take the country into a genuine information revolution that goes far beyond the plans for cable television . |
| 2 | The refusal this week by Virginia Bottomley , the new Health Secretary , to outlaw ‘ gagging clauses ’ in health workers ' contracts raises alarm about the climate of fear in British society that goes far wider than the NHS . |
| 3 | Sky are determined to disprove the hackneyed managerial cliche that ‘ it 's all about 90 minutes ’ with a variety show that goes far beyond 22 men and a ball . |
| 4 | Both universalise prematurely , hardening and expanding one aspect of the moral situation to cover ground that goes far beyond its relevance . |
| 5 | It is becoming more , not less important to provide adequate teaching in schools on personal relationships and on how people should treat one another that goes far beyond straightforward lessons on sex education — important though this is . |
| 6 | What I can help you with is an understanding of the nature of a product that goes far beyond these crudities ; these academic categories masquerading as truths . ’ |
| 7 | If girls deviate , they tend to do it in a way that causes far less disruption than boys , such as pretending to write when they are bored . |
| 8 | Hell , bands should be challenging our tolerance and expectations of how they should sound and behave , but there must be better ways than this drama-school drop-out , turgid , clumsy , aimless artwank that tip-toes far too close for comfort to being morally repugnant . |
| 9 | This interrelation of various disciplines is fundamental to science : the word ‘ science ’ itself derives from a Latin word meaning ‘ knowledge ’ — a term that embraces far more than the circumscribed disciplines just mentioned . |
| 10 | On goes the road in a series of turns and twists and interesting situations , with intriguing glimpses of the coast and the wide sweep of Eddrachillis Bay , and then the vast seascape is fully revealed as the road comes alongside the lovely Clashnessie Bay , bounded and sheltered in the west by a peninsula that thrusts far out to sea and ends at the rocky Point of Stoer . |
| 11 | With concern about persistent young offenders on the increase , Mr Major said at Commons question time : ‘ There is a responsibility that spreads far beyond any government . |
| 12 | It soon comes alongside the Kyle of Durness , yet another sea loch that penetrates far inland . |
| 13 | At the symposium , ‘ Are You Prepared for IT ? ’ , hosted by Zenith Data Systems , Gates spoke out on object programming , saying he thought the concept was just another hype that extends far beyond the reality available today — having said that , he said to look out for Microsoft 's Object Linking and Embedding 2.0 ‘ during 1993 ’ , saying he was all for any technology that will enable the economical re-use of parts of programs . |
| 14 | A profile that provides far too many irrelevant references is of little use ; such lists normally find their way into a wastepaper basket because the user sees that they are full of irrelevant material and is not prepared to search through them hoping to find some relevant references . |
| 15 | Iago can take a stand with every appearance of confidence : Yet from that firm-sounding position he lapses into uncertainty — ‘ I speak not yet of proof ’ ( ironically true ! ) — but an uncertainty that suggests far more than it states , with its rash of words for perception and deception ( ‘ look ’ , ‘ observe ’ , ‘ wear your eye thus ’ , ‘ not … secure ’ , ‘ abused ’ , ‘ look ’ , ‘ know ’ , ‘ see … pranks ’ , ‘ show ’ , ‘ conscience ’ , ‘ keep't unknown ’ ) . |
| 16 | This is a state of the art system , much faster than the old manual methods and produces far more concise and accurate reports . |
| 17 | This resulted in the loss of three of Schleswig-Holstein 's 14 constituencies , and goes far to explain why in the whole of the Federal Republic there were only four excess seats in seven general elections held from 1965 onwards compared with 13 in the previous four . |
| 18 | It can be argued that this confinement to land-use issues was the basic problem with structure planning and goes far to explain why the exercise has in practice proved so limited in its impact , but in this chapter the focus is precisely on the politics of land use , and structure plan intentions are of considerable importance . |
| 19 | Subsidiarity is an old doctrine from German Catholic social philosophy and has far more to do with this than with constitutional theory . |
| 20 | By avoiding these foods , she has remained very well , and has far more energy in her fifties than she had as a teenager . |
| 21 | And to me this is much more important , and has far greater consequences for the sport here , then any fine print in the Brands Hatch disaster . |
| 22 | What irks the Brits , and irks far more their Unionist fellow-citizens in Northern Ireland , is that foreigners — in pursuit of domestic votes , not Irish welfare — are using economic pressure to tell them how to behave . |
| 23 | The wondrous creature marries younger than ever , bears more babies and looks and acts far more feminine than the ‘ emancipated ’ girl of the Twenties or Thirties . |
| 24 | The First is that period which recedes from the very beginning of life on earth and reaches far back into the unknowable depths of the timeless universe . |
| 25 | Fourth , the extent of illness in the wider society has sometimes been measured by intensive medical examination of small communities and invariably this approach highlights the iceberg of disease and uncovers far higher rates of illness than the other approaches . |
| 26 | They discover , however , that the logic of narrative is far less rigorous and relies far more on individual taste : ‘ … it seems harder to tell a story , even our own , than to make up the most complex program . |
| 27 | In central Siberia , Alaska and Canada tundra forms a belt several hundred kilometres wide on the mainland and extends far out onto the islands beyond the continental coasts . |
| 28 | Its principal practitioners and beneficiaries do not , of course , complain , but a BMA document just published expresses grave concerns about current realities and proposes far reaching reforms which , if implemented , would offer a fairer , better deal for all junior doctors ( p 798 ) . |
| 29 | Britain collects far more and spends far less than any other EC country . |
| 30 | This is one reason , probably , why Mr Perot speaks far less about deficit reduction than he once did , and spends far more time shooting at easy populist targets , such as NAFTA and wicked foreign lobbyists . |