Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spencer had been spoiled , treated for far too long as a baby and he had grown up knowing how to twist his mother around his little finger . |
| 2 | This woman has come from far away to write about your people . |
| 3 | The zip gaped open an inch at his waist , which was cinched in far too tightly by a fake crocodile belt . |
| 4 | So far it is dominated by Far East suppliers , including Sanken , Panasonic and TDK . |
| 5 | From them , genes can be located which may be carried by far greater numbers . |
| 6 | The first step , transcription , is considered by far the most important . |
| 7 | We have all endured for far too long , the blatherings of scientific greybeards regarding ‘ The Expanding Universe ’ . |
| 8 | Furthermore , in the aggregate we stand to be robbed of far more by these fine gentlemen acting in the good name of their corporation than by the common rogues apparently acting from some morally worthless motive . |
| 9 | Meanwhile we were at Ballyshannon , with its tall church spire seen from far away , its ‘ Old Barracks Bar and Lounge , 1700 ’ and a strange bell-and-weathercock tower that now housed a jeweller 's shop . |
| 10 | In both crimes , the person who had suffered by far the most had been the same man , Kemp . |
| 11 | The best made by far was the Ricoll and given a set of decently engraved keytops this would rate very highly as a direct replacement system and is also quite attractively priced . |
| 12 | But besides the falls I 've just mentioned there are many more falls and forces like Cotter Force , Catrigg Force and Scaleber Force which , perhaps because they are a little less accessible , are visited by far fewer people , although they are also arguably less impressive because they do n't fall as far or there are n't as many of them . |
| 13 | You are more likely to have a rug accepted by an auctioneer if you are prepared to put it up without a reserve ( a figure agreed between you and the auctioneer below which they will not sell the rug ) , but this is extremely risky as it could then be sold for far less than it is worth . |
| 14 | On a basically cylindrical figure like the hawk-priestess 's the swelling forms are modelled with far greater strength and subtlety , due not only to the slightly later date and much larger scale : this is the work of a great sculptor . |
| 15 | ‘ The fact is , Mr Stevens , your father is entrusted with far more than a man of his age can cope with . ’ |
| 16 | Against this , the Conservatives were preferred by far greater margins on the issues of defense and prices . |
| 17 | Of these , technology has had by far the greatest impact , by permitting structural changes in internationally linked production systems . |
| 18 | Channon rates his winner highly and said : ‘ She is the best two-year-old I 've had by far . |
| 19 | The exception to this is the police , who have had by far the largest addition to that , they have n't lost money when they lost S S A , erm , we have been ge , extremely generous to them , far more than to any other committee this year , erm , and although we have n't given them money for , to pay awards because we do n't know exactly what it is . |
| 20 | ‘ But I have had by far the better of the deal because the consultancy advice I have had from her has outweighed that ten times over . |
| 21 | He has had by far his best season since moving to Newmarket from California three years ago and can add another to his tally with Keen Hunter in the Remembrance Day Stakes . |
| 22 | Another said : ‘ He is the best man we have got by far . |
| 23 | The Control of Trade in Endangered Species ( Enforcement ) Regulations were agreed by Far Eastern countries in 1985 . |
| 24 | There were major changes afoot in the nature of the war in the Middle East and , like it or not , the SAS was going to be placed under far firmer control . |
| 25 | Although she could not resist adopting a dancer 's grace for the performance , the mocking allusion to the demeaning domestication of women was clear enough , though this theme has been treated with far more wit and poignant effect by other artists ( notably Bobby Baker ) . |
| 26 | SALVAGE specialists last night called off attempts to refloat a ship aground on an uninhabited island in the Pentland Firth — as pressure mounted for far tougher controls on vessels using the channel . |
| 27 | The meeting at the Presbytery after Benediction had dragged on far too long , but he had caught his bus , and was congratulating himself on being out of the rain , when the conductor had bawled |
| 28 | Will he consider encouraging local authorities to formulate local strategies aimed at preventing crime and anti-social behaviour which are based on far greater co-ordination between the various agencies involved ? |
| 29 | With this kind of monthly reporting , the common negative reactions to the welter of transport legislation can be replaced by far more useful and positive attitudes . |
| 30 | But in the years preceding the outbreak of war it had become by far the largest single retailer . |