Example sentences of "the [noun] [vb past] [adv] far [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The play got as far as Wimbledon and then seemed to die . |
| 2 | In fact , the Conducator went so far as to command the peasants to ‘ maintain the customs and dress of our great-great fore-bears , so that they shall always be in our memory . |
| 3 | The fence stretched as far as she could see and , above it , waved the brown tops of trees . |
| 4 | After the unveiling ceremony a special train hauled by No 2 The Countess went as far as Castle Caereinion before returning to Raven Square . |
| 5 | At one time , the Club went as far as refusing to allow juveniles a reduced entrance price for the London Road terrace but allowed them half price for other areas . |
| 6 | The following year the Scots penetrated as far as Swaledale and Richmondshire , burning villages and seizing or killing resisters : on this occasion Holme Cultram abbey lost livestock valued at £500 . |
| 7 | The mood spread as far as non-separatist feminist campaigns around disciplines like psychology . |
| 8 | Without using any money , some of the escapees got as far as North Wales , Yorkshire , and Scotland . |
| 9 | And the vehicle got as far as Hucknall Marketplace , er and that was it . |
| 10 | The proposal got as far as a White Paper which suggested a two-tier system — life peers with voting rights and other members who could take part in debate but not vote . |
| 11 | In 1383 , the proposal got as far as a draft . |
| 12 | Fish never sleep , you see , so if this one does , then that 's half the battle won as far as friend Polgar is concerned . ’ |
| 13 | Fittings should be removed and the body dismantled as far as possible including disconnecting from gas or electrical supply if possible . |
| 14 | However the question in the present case was whether the duty of confidence which the defendant no doubt owed to the plaintiff extended so far as to bar disclosure of the report to the hospital or the Home Office . |
| 15 | They were generally larger than the buildings described so far and were often more elaborate , with hypocausts , painted wall plaster or mosaic flooring . |
| 16 | In the fierce noon-day sun the water stretched as far as the eye could see , in every shade of blue from palest turquoise to the deepest indigo of the horizon . |
| 17 | Seen from a hill , the dunes stretched as far as the deep blue of the horizon , above which were a few streaks of cirrus cloud . |
| 18 | It is the stuff of or the basis of all the relations specified so far or still to be specified between cause and effect , causal circumstance and effect , and nomic correlates . |
| 19 | If the buses came as far as Clifton Road it would be alright but any further away and people would have practically walked into town by the time they got to the nearest bus stop . ’ |
| 20 | In the late 1640s and early 1650s , radicals like William Walwyn and Gerrard Winstanley began to express doubts about the doctrine of hell , while the Ranters went so far as to deny the existence of sin , and some early English Unitarians , such as John Bidle , attacked the doctrine of the trinity and denied Christ 's divinity . |
| 21 | TODAY has been told the letter went so far as to claim she had betrayed her husband , her sons and , above all , the Queen . |
| 22 | The couple went so far as to have Chris Nixon , one of the best unit publicists in the business , fired . |
| 23 | When that failed , the country resorted as far as possible to the conditions prevailing prior to its creation . |
| 24 | The Hon Secretary gave a resume of the events held so far and also said that he was pleased to have many requests for information and membership from a wide area of the country . |
| 25 | In their efforts to impress the United States , the Romanians went so far as to compare their position vis-à-vis the Kremlin with Cuba 's in relation to Washington . |