Example sentences of "[be] [prep] far " in BNC.
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| 31 | She-who-Pulls-the-Strings said the bars were to far apart and the dogs would get stuck in them . |
| 32 | The inventory of the shop shows that Martin made recorders ( flutes ) , bassoons , musettes and transverse flutes , the flute-type instruments being by far the most numerous . |
| 33 | Her legs were by far the worst , though — just supporting her own body weight could break them . |
| 34 | The years 1544 and 1545 were to see a number of English invasions , of which those of May 1544 and the autumn of 1545 — timed for the destruction of the harvest — were by far the worst . |
| 35 | The Conference leaders were by far the more accomplished side in front of a crowd of 5,443 — their best of the season . |
| 36 | Sheep were by far the most common livestock . |
| 37 | Touching and fondling were by far the most common complaints . |
| 38 | The haplochromines were also extremely numerous ; indeed , they were by far the principal biomass of Lake Victoria . |
| 39 | Both sides made use of bows , though the Moslems were by far the more proficient in their use . |
| 40 | And a strike in nickel mines in Canada a few years ago affected Britain seriously because they were by far the country 's biggest supplier . |
| 41 | ‘ We were by far the second best . |
| 42 | Kittiwakes were by far the most numerous of the gulls , nesting in huge noisy colonies on precipitous cliffs , while glaucous gulls with their all pale wing-tips replaced the herring gulls and black-backs I had become used to seeing in Shetland . |
| 43 | Their conclusion was that despite the large number of variables considered by the studies , the traditional variables of word difficulty and sentence difficulty were by far the most important . |
| 44 | The higher the father 's status , the greater the child 's chance of attending a grammar rather than a secondary modern school , though the occupational group ‘ skilled manual workers ’ was so large that their children were by far the largest single group in all types of school . |
| 45 | They were by far outnumbered by recent volumes on chemistry , electricity , galvanism , and natural philosophy . |
| 46 | My right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition and the leader of the Liberal Democrats were by far the most supportive . |
| 47 | Overseas guests , speakers and chaplain are an absolute must , as they were by far the most successful part of the conference . |
| 48 | Everywhere the most important element was a department or more usually a series of departments divided along geographical lines , which handled correspondence with missions abroad , of which those in the major European capitals were by far the most significant . |
| 49 | And the man who became articled to a firm of solicitors at the age of only 16 says his days as a judge were by far the most enjoyable of his career . |
| 50 | and about fifteen of the erm eight , eight , five troop chasing after me , it was like our sister troop yeah , we were , there was three troops in our squadron , eight , eight , five , eight , eight , six and eighty , eighty , seven and then there was three squadrons and a regiments , there was nine troops there , so like , if it , basically it was your troop and nobody else , but then it was your squadron and , and anybody else and then the few times that I , on regiment it was your regiment and nobody else , like , we could touch you cos your our regiment but if you try and touch us , you can get fucking hell , but it nearly always come down to the troops , and the thing is eight , eight , six , only had , the first year that I was there we 'd only had about thirty people , fourth year there had I opposed like fifty , sixty and seventy , second year we were there we had about forty- five opposed to like sixty , seventy , eighty , and the third year there we had about fifty opposed like fucking seventy , eighty and ninety in a , in a troop , so we were always well out numbered and we were by far the most outrageous |
| 51 | ‘ The reason people have been concerned about this case for so long is that it is about far bigger issues . |
| 52 | As a result of inflation and part repayment of mortgages most home owners have a property which is worth far more than they owe on it . |
| 53 | As a result of inflation and part repayment of mortgages most home owners have a property which is worth far more than they owe on it . |
| 54 | From the user 's point of view , the source of a requested item is of far less interest than speed of supply . |
| 55 | The ability to observe is of far greater importance and is readily enhanced by practice . |
| 56 | For the conditions described in this book it is the selection of the remedy that is of far greater importance than the specific potency used . |
| 57 | What is of far greater importance is that the candidate should come across well on TV news programmes and should constantly be seen in favourable settings making crisp and newsworthy remarks . |
| 58 | In a sense the development of such petitions is of far greater interest to the ecclesiastical historian in respect of its consequences rather than its origins ; for what this system entailed was public cognizance , and a public memory , of grievances ; when these complaints were directed at the church , parliament inevitably served to institutionalize and to unify countless discontents , and thus to provide kings and others with ideas , excuses and encouragement for actions against the church which might otherwise have remained unrealized . |
| 59 | It is of far greater historical significance that the legends of Kosovo helped to keep alive for centuries the spark of Serbian national consciousness which burst into flame with the Karadjordje revolt of 1804 , and which led ultimately to the founding of an independent Serbian kingdom . |
| 60 | It is in far better shape than its main state-owned rival , Crédit Lyonnais , which has lent recklessly to film moguls and on property . |