Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even though it was high morning , the light was dim and artificial outside as acres of arched roof far above kept out the Canadian weather . |
| 2 | ‘ The days were spent in — oh , many things , ’ said Oisin , his dark , velvety eyes far away . |
| 3 | Although for some domains the specific dictionary far outperformed the general , the overall margin , on average , was insufficient to justify their continued use . |
| 4 | Meh'Lindi signalled another ten possible presences far ahead , in her opinion . |
| 5 | He was buried , according to his wishes , in a private ceremony far out in the Atlantic to the west of the Hebridean island of Barra . |
| 6 | In Section 3.7 we managed to get simple expressions for the magnetic field far away from the ring and in the vicinity of the axis . |
| 7 | ‘ This film is appealing to people on a universal level far beyond what I originally expected , ’ he admits . |
| 8 | With lesser riders far down the slopes , the brutality of the attacks on other riders becomes more apparent . |
| 9 | When she too heard the clatter of the galloping horse far below she went to the window , but there was no longer anything to see and only the sound of the nursemaids chattering . |
| 10 | It quoted a Health Advisory Service report on Bromley , which said : ’ Frail , elderly people face exile in private residential homes far from Bromley ’ . |
| 11 | It was recognized that ‘ the absorption , even temporarily , of one million persons into a community of five and a half millions ( excluding Egypt ) requires a digestive capacity far beyond the economic possibilities of the area as they exist today ’ , as UNRWA reported in 1953 . |
| 12 | He is prone to speak and write at one moment as though motives were transparently obvious , and at the next as though they were inscrutable mysteries far beyond the range of his competence . |
| 13 | Similarly , Margaret Thatcher 's reaction to the Brixton and Toxteth riots captured the public mood far more than the analysis of the Opposition . |
| 14 | The fact that the South East contains a disproportionately high number of professional and managerial inhabitants , that transportation is generally quicker and easier because of the flatter terrain , and that industry and population from London have been relocated to surrounding satellite towns have all conspired to spread the ex-urban population far out into the metropolitan hinterland . |
| 15 | Lyndon Johnson had massive support in all forms of political capital , and even Jimmy Carter had commenced with big majorities in Congress and a level of popular approval far higher than Reagan 's . |
| 16 | ‘ The economic recovery has restored old fortunes far more significantly , ’ she admitted in this year 's State of the Nation address , ‘ than it has touched the lives of the vast majority of our people . ’ |
| 17 | The profusion of trees in the field-sides of Midland England , especially when viewed from afar and from a vantage point , gives it a well-wooded appearance far in excess of what is actually there . |
| 18 | Especially in London , the dimensions of the social problems far exceeded the available resources both physical and financial . |
| 19 | Zambia was wearing some of Tammuz' clothes and Roirbak thought the khaki and green suited hir far better than the dusty black SHe usually favoured . |
| 20 | What arguments , or reasons , would the directors have put forward for closing a dozen old works far up the valleys , at 300 m altitude , and building two new ones on the coast , at Port Talbot and , perhaps , at Cardiff ? |
| 21 | When she did this , Ariel hugged her knees and rocked on the ground beside her , singing to herself charms against the spells of Sycorax : her antidote to the old woman 's venom , her hopes for a different life far away from the ferocious spirit of her crooked mother . |
| 22 | Parents had fought for this as a local resource to prevent the need for children to be placed in long-stay placements far from home . |
| 23 | Tolkien himself thought that this bright ray was the Old English word far Venus , here applied to John the Baptist , herald of the Christ . |
| 24 | In Indochina matters were taken out of his control by the precipitancy of his own local commander , General Gracey , who involved his forces in a defence of French interests far beyond that envisaged in his instructions . |
| 25 | It was black in the empty space far between stars and we could n't see anything . |
| 26 | His subsequent celebrity propelled the ‘ Beatle Bass ’ to commercial success far beyond that of its originator , Gibson 's EB-1 . |
| 27 | As laughter rang out in the room , she nodded towards the band-leader and swung into her next song , a loud gutsy number far removed from the bittersweet love song she 'd opened the set with . |
| 28 | For example , the regional distribution of residential and foster care services in the United Kingdom is known to be uneven with some local authorities using EBD schools and residential care far more frequently than others ( Fuller and Stevenson , 1983 ) . |
| 29 | This new approach , it seemed , was not to be made so publicly , not to be exposed to the expedient treason of little devious minds far removed from the battlefields on which honest men met , and contended , and killed one another without malice . |
| 30 | It 's certainly a narrow aréte , but I found the tiny loose stones of Am Bodach 's unstable path far more disquieting than this ridge , with its well-worn , solid path snaking comfortingly across to the last top between us and our goal of Sgurr a' Mhaim . |