Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] far as " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was the principle of the Yasa so far as the practical application of scientific knowledge was concerned . |
| 2 | The more southerly route lay across a gap in the Urals to the Irtysh and thence , after the Tatar khanate had been defeated , up the middle Ob and its tributaries , such as the Ket , to where a portage led to the middle reaches of the Yenisei ; from here they ascended the Upper ( or ‘ Stony ’ ) Tunguska as far as the Ilim , and so either by portage to the Lena or up the Angara towards Lake Baikal . |
| 3 | But he was an American citizen , born in the States as far as I can make out . ’ |
| 4 | At the recent meeting of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council attention was drawn to the overgrown state of the footway on Station Lane Scorton on the section from the entrance to Brook Avenue as far as the railway bridge . |
| 5 | Further to my letter of 23rd May and our telephone conversation yesterday it now seems that most of the verges and hedge-bottoms in the Scorton area have been trimmed EXCEPT for the section of Station Lane from opposite Brook Avenue as far as the railway bridge . |
| 6 | The above proposals for England and foreign countries will apply to Northern Ireland so far as appropriate in the particular circumstances of the case . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | There is a narrow road from the coast along the north side of Loch Morar as far as the little settlement of Bracorina and , from here , an easy climb to the crest of the ridge behind reveals a superlative view of Loch Nevis and Loch Morar , which are now little more than a mile apart . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ You are the best in Swansea as far as I 'm concerned , ’ Emily said . |
| 13 | It is also worthy of note that East Prussian amber was being traded among hunter-fisher communities over extensive tracts of Finland , the East Baltic countries and north-east Russia as far as Lake Onega and the Upper Volga , as well as up and down the coast of western Norway , at a time when Neolithic farming communities were being established in south Scandinavia . |
| 14 | Although the subject was something not discussed , almost everyone in the road had at one time or another been confided in and had helped Mrs Browning as far as they could , although she seemed to feel she should not worry any particular neighbour too much so went from one to another , as it were in turn . |
| 15 | A ward nurse accompanied Mr Reynolds as far as the anaesthetic room , taking with her all his notes and X-rays to ensure that the surgical team had all the available information . |
| 16 | In each country , politics complicated development , but German interests finally obtained an east-west canal to link Berlin with the Ruhr and by 1905 ships of 2,000 tons could go up the Rhine as far as Mannheim , a very important change since the Ruhr by then needed more than German ore . |
| 17 | The route was to proceed along Thicket Road and Beckenham Road as far as the Penge/Beckenham boundary . |
| 18 | Roughly speaking , the parts of England most affected by this type of planning form a great belt which sweeps round from Flamborough Head on the Yorkshire coast , down through the Midlands as far as the Dorset coast , and thence north-eastwards along the chalk uplands to the Norfolk coast . |
| 19 | Its lands reached from abbeys in Yorkshire as far as Borrowdale and Eskdale , where its sheep runs extended over the fells . |
| 20 | Eight cars were provided by each undertaking and gave a five-minute service from West Croydon as far as the ‘ Robin Hood ’ . |
| 21 | It was quite a crush but the first circuit — left on to Orchard Street and all the way round Selfridges , then Oxford Street as far as Marylebone Lane and then Wigmore again — went off without serious injury . |
| 22 | His son Cambyses drove into Egypt , and the empire was then extended by his successor Darius as far as the valley of the Indus . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The relatively peaceful and well-governed " home counties " of the Duke of Aquitaine , from Poitiers westwards to the sea at Talmont , then down the coast to Bordeaux and up the valley of the Garonne as far as Agen , comprised an area as large as midland and southeastern England and included some of the most prosperous and commercially developed parts of the whole duchy . |
| 26 | 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 ! |
| 27 | I would not be interested in leaving Middlesbrough until I have got Middlesbrough as far as Middlesbrough can go . ’ |
| 28 | Across Europe , from the war-devastated areas of France and Germany as far as Greece and Italy , from Austria to Hungary , Poland , and Romania , Bischof carried his camera equipment and bundles of warm clothing for those in need , infinitely caring , attentive to all victims , but above all to children . |
| 29 | Instead , they had driven on eastwards , beyond the last heath of the New Forest as far as the housing estates fringing Fawley Oil Refinery , on one of which lived Molly Diamond , Dysart 's cleaning lady . |
| 30 | 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 . |