Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] as 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ You are the best in Swansea as far as I 'm concerned , ’ Emily said . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Its lands reached from abbeys in Yorkshire as far as Borrowdale and Eskdale , where its sheep runs extended over the fells . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Not only were limestones deposited in Europe as far south as Cantabria and right across the Mid-West , they also went a lot farther . |
| 14 | Erm , the situation in Shropshire as far as records are concerned is erm , relatively good . |
| 15 | The most important variation from Redcliffe-Maud as far as the structure of local government was concerned was the addition of two further metropolitan areas . |
| 16 | They also feel there 's one rule for them and another for Redlands as far as planning is concerned . |
| 17 | The irony is that within five years , investigations started with a view to relaying part of the canal route to Kilmacolm as far as Paisley for a new passenger service ! |
| 18 | In November 1913 he accompanied his family on their way to England as far as the railhead , which had now reached the Awash river , and then returned to Addis Ababa . |
| 19 | Kites probably ceased to breed in Sussex about 1825 , and des Forges and Harber give 21 records between 1863 and 1960 , all for the period September to May as far as is known . |
| 20 | Mono 's were first introduced to the European fishkeeper in 1908 , but they were known to Linneus as far back as 1758 . |
| 21 | The distribution of leopards is wide , ranging from South Africa northwards and eastwards through Asia as far as China , and in parts of North Africa and Asia the species is in serious danger of extinction . |
| 22 | Perhaps even longer : for Thomas Palmer had a grant of free warren at Holt as far back as 1448 and this may be the beginning of the park of Nevill Holt . |
| 23 | Indeed , given a campaign by Wulfhere as far as the coast , it is difficult to see how the whole extent of the northern territory of the western Saxons from Berkshire to Somerset could have escaped Mercian pressure in these years , creating perhaps precedents for further Mercian involvement in these districts at a later time . |