Example sentences of "[adv] far [adv prt] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We choose to use the outer thirds because we want the line to be drawn between two points as far away as possible without being so far out that they risk being unreliable . |
| 2 | The language is so degraded now , itself so far out that it is impossible to take seriously . |
| 3 | we 're so far out that we 're not anywhere near , you ca n't |
| 4 | and you so far out and then you drove another one in to the next chamber . |
| 5 | Yeah , and also he lives so far out and he was saying you know , Julie 's up in er in Birmingham , Andy 's up in Birmingham , he 's had no one to see , Eileen 's come back up to Birmingham he sees quite a lot of and er I think he 's just a bit lonely . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But I mean you 've , you 've actually passed up your good news by putting it so far down that the editor might well have read the first paragraph . |
| 8 | Uhm , no , I er I 've sort of started off and I 've got so far down and er I love the drawing that Freda Rudman from Stanford-in-the-Vale has done of their village , and er and of course I like the Harwell entry , which is my own village , but there 's certainly some very nice entries in , some very good entries in . |
| 9 | SOME time ago , but not so far back that it can be dismissed as incidental , a belligerent centre-half , who needed very little encouragement in such nefarious matters , was instructed to discover how fast the visiting centre-forward could limp . |
| 10 | if these young men possessed traces of the Beastblood , it was from so far back that it could not be measured , and it was so slight that it could no longer hold the power to call upon the beasts for aid . |
| 11 | Even drivers of average height will need the seat so far back as to make it impossible to see directly behind . |
| 12 | He was so far under as to be very near coma . |
| 13 | They kept peering about on all sides as though they knew that he was not far off but they seemed reluctant to leave the path . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ They say they have gathered in all who would come out from the north side down to Pitnacree , and the south side as far up as Kenmore. , ‘ The Grandtully crowd ? |
| 16 | Domestic vines and orchards , in patches of garden overgrown with poppies and clover , straggle as far up as the fortress . |
| 17 | This Belemnite chalk extends to the border of Avize , but Micraster bites into the vineyards on the lower slopes , reaching as far up as the D9–D10 cut which runs around the southern edge of the Butte de Saran . |
| 18 | From as far up as er In er Inverness down to the er borders . |
| 19 | What about as far round as that high , nothing as far round here ? |
| 20 | They were in a sailing boat , as far out as the trawler , both of them older , eighteen or nineteen . |
| 21 | Nor is the analogy as far out as it first appears . |
| 22 | ( In the event the estimate of 300 million was not as far out as critics feared . |
| 23 | FitzGerald had been determined as far back as 1964 ( 1964 ; 1972 ) to make constitutional changes to those articles which appeared to alienate Northern protestant opinion . |
| 24 | What he really wants is a business of the inside and outside of his head , in this case of his ‘ alone ’ juxtaposed with the authorial ‘ loneliness and estrangement ’ : a rich relationship , not a flat contradiction or dead end , a relationship which evokes and nurses a distinction established as far back as The Double , between false solitude ( ‘ loneliness and estrangement ’ ) and true solitude which is the obverse of true society and meaningless without it . |
| 25 | RAF Swinderby was ‘ contractorised ’ as far back as the 1960s because the ending of National Service led to a shortage of cooks and stewards and now ther are probably about a score of units which work a mainly 9–5 day , or where the numbers are fairly small , that may be most suitable for ‘ contractorising ’ . |
| 26 | In The Origin , and already as far back as The German Ideology , Marx and Engels followed their contemporaries in believing that the history of mankind usually went through the same sequence of technological improvement . |
| 27 | As far back as 1925 , he had dreamed of a complete history of the love allegory from Ovid to Spenser , and by 1928 two chapters of a more modest scheme , starting with the Provençal troubadours , were finished . |
| 28 | As far back as 700 BC Hesiod was wary of it : ‘ Gossip is mischievous , light and easy to raise , but grievous to bear and hard to get rid of . ’ |
| 29 | The smaller British fund had been licensed to operate by the DTI since 1985 and it had known about the business as far back as 1975 . |
| 30 | Scientific study of whales and dolphins began as far back as the fourth century BC , when the Greek philosopher Aristotle observed and experimented with live animals . |