Example sentences of "[be] [prep] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its produce of fruit , fish , nuts , raisins , dyes , medicines and natural chemicals are worth far more than the value of cut timber . |
| 2 | They are worth far more than £300 million in entertainment value . |
| 3 | In a later study of economic growth in the USA , and Western European countries during the period 1950–62 , Denison found the minimum contribution of education to economic growth to have been of far less importance : 15 per cent for USA , 13 per cent for UK and Belgium , and the rates for the remaining six countries varied from 7 per cent for Norway and Italy , to 2 per cent for West Germany . |
| 4 | The Common Law takes little interest in the goods , which are of far less importance , and especially of far less public importance , than the land . |
| 5 | They 're in far worse shape , as always , when John 's done . |
| 6 | Because in our field we 're we 're by far the biggest and the best in in terms of support and finance . |
| 7 | After all , the world is full of people in danger — look at Bosnia , many people there are in far greater immediate danger than I am . |
| 8 | When Adam heard that , he did n't want to sell , he was sure they must therefore be worth far more . |
| 9 | The " package " may also involve stock options — rights to buy shares at a specific value exercisable at a future date , the idea being that if the firm does well the shares will be worth far more than the exercise price . |
| 10 | Until the 1980s the killing of 2000 or so pilot whales each year in the Faroe Islands was considered to be of far less significance than the slaughter of tens of thousands of the much rarer great whale species . |
| 11 | The downside , as far as concerns book publishing in general , is that the lower-grade extended-caption tie-ins hog the limelight and drive out ‘ real ’ books which might otherwise be given more shelf space , and which would almost certainly be of far greater merit in themselves . |
| 12 | Companies , it is claimed , will put their energies into short-term performance and the payment of high dividends in order to maintain the value of their stock exchange listing , at the cost of long term planning and investment that would ultimately be of far greater benefit for the company , its investors and the economy as a whole . |
| 13 | What were once thought of as " mere " political " forms " are now recognized to be of far greater potential and actual importance than an exclusive concentration on economic and social power might suggest . |
| 14 | This greater reliance on context means that the branch of linguistics termed ‘ pragmatics ’ ( e.g. Levinson 1983 ; Sperber and Wilson 1986 ) is likely to be of far greater significance than semantics of syntax in those material culture studies which investigate the object 's communicative abilities . |
| 15 | So unlike for the basic rate taxpayer , the impact of the Budget tax credit changes is much less significant for the higher rate taxpayer — particularly as the capital gains tax exemption the PEP provides is likely to be of far more value to wealthier investors . |
| 16 | His Majesty appealed to him as a Statesman and as one who had been a Minister of the Crown to place before everything the present dangerous situation of the country , Sir Herbert replied that he and his party were just as patriotic as the Conservatives : the country would be in far greater danger from Tariffs — price of food stuffs would rise , there would be strikes and outbreaks all over the country . |
| 17 | A relatively old rug that has been well looked after may be in far better condition than a newer item that has seen less considerate use , and some contemporary items are deliberately made to look old by the use of chemical washes ( p. 27 ) . |
| 18 | Research has shown the method to be by far the most effective disciplinary technique to use in situations of defiance and ( as often occurs ) the ensuing aggression . |
| 19 | I consider that programme to be by far the best report on the effects of screen violence to be shown in recent years . |
| 20 | There is no special dispensation for accountants , but if the firm could obtain its own individual dispensation , this would be by far the best solution . |
| 21 | A nearly zero value , however , will be by far the most probable . |
| 22 | ‘ I did n't realise what I was getting into , ’ he admits , ‘ but I do know that this will be by far the hardest thing I 've done in my life . ’ |
| 23 | This will be by far the longest record for any society , a record which now breaks off in the 1880s . |
| 24 | While employee numbers will be reduced , United Distillers will remain a major employer in the Scotch whisk I industry with around 4,500 employees in Scotland , and will continue to be by far the industry 's largest producer . |
| 25 | It is interesting to note however that while Klemperer 's speeds thirty years are on far more deliberate , the rawness of Weill 's idiom remains intact . |
| 26 | Although initial estimates were for far more , production from these fields is likely to come to no more than 1600 million cu. metres per year ( 1.4 MTOE ) — sufficient for about a quarter of 1984 gas use . |
| 27 | There were , he said , 180 parks , forests and chases belonging to the queen , and the rights proposed to be leased in them were worth far more than £40,000 a year . |
| 28 | Considerable though the distance was across the metropolis , I sensed that the cultural and historical boundaries we traversed were of far greater significance . |
| 29 | And , because of what had happened to his father , honesty and integrity were of far greater importance to him than to many businessmen she had worked for . |
| 30 | He understood very well Keyes 's desire to investigate through poetry the subjects of pain and death , and his feeling of being in far closer communion with William Blake , William Wordsworth [ qq.v. ] , and Johann Schiller than with any living contemporaries . |