Example sentences of "[adv] far [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The origin of Blakeney Point is open to discussion : it has been suggested that the western end may have been a feature comparable with Scolt Head Island and later joined to the mainland by a simple spit growing westwards from Weybourne : it may have developed entirely as a spit such as Orford Ness or Hurst Castle Spit , which will be described below ; or the whole feature may represent an offshore bar driven so far inshore as to become attached to the coast . |
| 2 | From the various addresses given on the trade cards of coffin-makers it appears that many were sited off the high streets , yet not so far away as to be inaccessible to their clients . |
| 3 | In fact , some people 's remembering of the exact colours and their proportions might be so far out as to scramble the possible building of any picture . |
| 4 | Even drivers of average height will need the seat so far back as to make it impossible to see directly behind . |
| 5 | So far too as creditors were concerned , the daughter would be fair game until she had obtained a formal release from liability . |
| 6 | He was so far under as to be very near coma . |
| 7 | Meanwhile the factory towns and the mines were not far off as they were in the South , and the northern peasant was used to a hard life ; he was not forced to stay on the land as a pauper , since employers and employed were in the same economic difficulties and regarded each other as of nearly the same status . |
| 8 | What you need to do is to involve people so they know what has to be done and plan it as far ahead as possible to minimise the impact . |
| 9 | At the moment , however , as she stood outside the door she had intended trying before , one trembling hand hesitating over the latch , Isabel could only think as far ahead as the next few minutes . |
| 10 | Second , the title suggests an assessment of multimedia spanning the decade , examining developments as far ahead as the year 2000 . |
| 11 | Realistically , it is hard enough to speculate on how multimedia will have developed in a few years time without looking as far ahead as the beginning of the next century . |
| 12 | ( In particular it was emphasised that the protection of green belts ‘ must be maintained as far ahead as can be seen . ’ |
| 13 | Nesting has been proved as far inland as Harting . |
| 14 | At the beginning of the 1750s very few Englishmen in America had pushed even as far inland as the East India Company had done when it founded its port up the Hughli river at Calcutta . |
| 15 | Waters were also rising in the Norfolk Broads and there were reports of some minor flooding as far inland as Norwich , which is 20 miles from the coast . |
| 16 | He 's had dogs from as far afield as London and Liverpool . |
| 17 | Seventy years later the cloth merchants of Kano , who ‘ put out ’ yarn for weaving and organized the dyeing and marketing of the cloth , were exporting as far afield as Alexandria across the desert and Brazil across the sea . |
| 18 | As a Class 2 Navigator , Corporal Fisher was mate of the RCL , and was often called upon to command and navigate the vessel through coastal waters as far afield as Norway and Portugal . |
| 19 | Demands for action to clean up sulphur dioxide emissions from power stations , widely believed to be responsible for the ‘ acid rain ’ that was killing forests , lakes and rivers — not just in Scotland , but as far afield as Germany and Scandinavia — were brushed aside on the grounds of inconclusive evidence ; a similar attitude was taken towards the radioactive discharges from the nuclear reprocessing plant at Sellafield . |
| 20 | They have brought France into conflict with South Pacific countries from as far afield as Chile and Peru . |
| 21 | A UNIQUE patch of north London houses the very wealthy , from the Sultan of Brunei to millionaires from as far afield as Greece , Hong Kong and Nigeria . |
| 22 | In 1934 , P & O , Cunard , Blue Star , Orient and Royal Mail took passengers as far afield as Japan , Australia , and Hawaii . |
| 23 | Mr Pilkington was delighted and became such an enthusiast for air travel that he went on to make many more business trips by air , some of them as far afield as Australia . |
| 24 | A bizarre by-product has been the recognition of various richly decorated fragments of the church in places as far afield as Barcelona , Venice , Aquileia , and even Vienna , presumably carried off to the West as loot after 1204 , by members of the Fourth Crusade who evidently had an eye for exotic sculpture . |
| 25 | By this time they were taking species such as the blue , sei and sperm that are found in the deeper oceans , and were whaling as far afield as the Antarctic and Atlantic oceans . |
| 26 | Competitors travelled from as far afield as Middlesex , Berks and Kent for the end of season unaffiliated dressage championships held at Parwood Equestrian Centre , Normandy last week . |
| 27 | On the night of the full moon , people gathered there from as far afield as Bārakot , twelve days ' walk away . |
| 28 | The majority are from the surrounding small towns and villages , but some exhibitors come from as far afield as Lincolnshire . |
| 29 | All Hallows cross-country teams entered the national cross country championships at Marple Hall School last month , when more than 40 schools were represented from as far afield as Newcastle and Coventry . |
| 30 | Mail for villages as far afield as Langtoft and Boynton came by post train from Hull , was dropped at Lowthorpe station at 7 am and then brought by horse and cart to the post office at Lowthorpe . |