Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [adv] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must also be borne in mind that in 685 Ecgfrith was able to invade through Strathmore as far as Nechtanesmere ( Dunnichen ) , near Forfar , which will have been in the more northerly kingdom of Circinn ( between the Isla and the Dee ) . |
| 2 | Once known primarily as the wife of Diego Rivera , her reputation outside of Mexico now far supercedes his : since 1919 , sale room estimates of her work have risen from $40,000 to over $1 million , and in 1990 a work by Kahlo broke all records at Sotheby 's New York for a Latin American artist . |
| 3 | At some stage a suggestion arose from both sides — principally Damerell of BUPA so far as the doctors were concerned and , strangely enough , also from Barbara and the DHSS — that the consultancy strike was so damaging that a mediator should be sought . |
| 4 | But the Chinese Muslims are spread throughout the country , from Xinjiang in the north-west right along the Great Wall of China as far as Peking and dotted throughout Ningxia province , including such key cities as Xian , home of the famous terracotta army , where the Chinese-style pavilions of the Great Mosque have been a place of worship for Muslims since the eighth century . |
| 5 | ‘ It is , of course , a matter of discretion for the House of Lords how far , if at all , it will allow points other than that certified to be developed … ’ . |
| 6 | It is instructive to begin with to compare the stones listed by the Greek naturalist and philosopher Theophrastus ( 373/ 368–c.287 B.C. ) , in so far as these can be certainly identified , with those used for the stamp seals of the Aegean world during the second millennium B.C. and the cylinder seals of Mesopotamia as far back as the fourth . |
| 7 | Compare this rendering of Herakles carrying off the Kerkopes ( mischievous goblins who had annoyed him ) with the same scene on a metope from a building at Foce del Sele on the west coast of Italy not far from Paestum , a sanctuary of Hera . |
| 8 | MathSoft reckons to have shipped around 300,000 units of Mathcad so far , mostly in the US , and the company is confident that it could well equal such success in Europe . |
| 9 | Britain remains the Dirty Man of Europe so far as SO&sub2 ; and NOx pollution is concerned , and will do so even when the EC Large Plant Directive is implemented by 2003 . |
| 10 | Deposits of comparable material which extend from the Ukraine westwards along the foot of the Hercynian uplands of Europe as far as the chalk plateaus of Artois and Picardy , were most likely derived by deflation from the glacial deposits of the North European Plain during the Pleistocene period . |
| 11 | Hudson Bay , much of the Labrador Sea and the St Lawrence estuary , invests the coasts of Labrador , Greenland , Svalbard , western Alaska and eastern Siberia , closing the northern Bering Sea and filling the Sea of Okhotsk as far south as the Kuril Islands and northern Japan . |
| 12 | A versatile and hardy traveller , his earliest journey was to Italy and Sicily , the prelude to an extended and detailed tour of Greece as far as Thessaly . |
| 13 | David Damiani 's father Jean owned olive groves , extensive properties in Jaffa , Tel Aviv and Jerusalem and a soap factory which he operated inside the old Turkish serail on the hill above Jaffa not far from St Peter 's church . |
| 14 | You see , the real issue for Pilate was n't what he was gon na do with Jesus , as far as the cross was concerned it was what he was gon na do with Jesus as far as his life was concerned . |
| 15 | Germany still has the world 's most expensive industrial electricity , with Italy not far behind . |
| 16 | Liverpool , Glasgow and Manchester dominate the list of fastest declining LLMAs for 1971–81 , not just in absolute but also in percentage terms , despite their large size , with London not far behind . |
| 17 | The Augsburg White Water Rodeo was the biggest canoe stunt boat spectacle in Germany so far . |
| 18 | But all that has emerged from Whitehall so far is rumours of interdepartmental conflict over the report . |
| 19 | I thi I think they 're , the the NALGO COHSE and NUPE health branches are making their own arrangements in Northumberland as far as I know . |
| 20 | Even so , the official response from Moscow so far has been muted . |
| 21 | ‘ You are the best in Swansea as far as I 'm concerned , ’ Emily said . |
| 22 | John Foster Dulles , a leading Republican spokesman on foreign affairs , was a member of the American delegation to the UN , and the State Department intended that Dulles should speak in conciliatory vein in the hope that the Soviet Union would accept the establishment of a temporary commission ; the Truman administration was embarrassed but wished to advance non-communist prospects in Korea as far as was possible . |
| 23 | Its lands reached from abbeys in Yorkshire as far as Borrowdale and Eskdale , where its sheep runs extended over the fells . |
| 24 | The actor was brought up in Croydon not far from the family 's home and remembers how it was known as The Arsenic House and how local children were afraid of it . |
| 25 | The line from Paris so far has been consistent : devaluation would do more harm than good , by fuelling inflation and upsetting stability . |
| 26 | Last time round they went to south east Asia , trekked in Nepal as far as the Everest base camp , saw Thailand and China then came back on the Trans-Siberian Railway . |
| 27 | And top of the pile is the GMC Syclone , four of which have been sold in Britain so far . |
| 28 | Not only were limestones deposited in Europe as far south as Cantabria and right across the Mid-West , they also went a lot farther . |
| 29 | Erm , the situation in Shropshire as far as records are concerned is erm , relatively good . |
| 30 | According to figures supplied by Dr Hattat , only 300 vasectomies have been done in Turkey so far , and he has done fewer than 10 in the past year . |