Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [adv] [adv] [conj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This unfortunate crusade was not a total loss as far as Barbarossa was concerned , for it set the political and feudal scene for his election as Emperor within a short time of his return to Germany . |
| 2 | On the passage home we retraced our outward course as far as Kyle of Localsh , and from there threaded our way into the Sound of Raasay via Caol Mor to spend the night at Portree . |
| 3 | What is needed now is a new spirit of political leadership in Ireland , able to respond to the changing social mood as effectively as Charles Haughey 's government has responded since 1987 to the changing economy . |
| 4 | From the Palgrave Cross at the top of Church Hill we continue down the High Street as far as Belmont — the centre of dissent — on the left . |
| 5 | Tony O'Reilly , who has scored a try or two in his time around the world , is the motivating force as far as Heinz and the Independent are concerned , and Guinness , of course , are the ever-present force in Irish sporting events . |
| 6 | So I bus-hopped into the City and took the Central Line as far as Bond Street . |
| 7 | The operation of trolleys and pantographs together was not without its problems , and it was said that the great used on the collector plates could be found on the overhead line as far as Lytham ! |
| 8 | Suddenly his hand moved , fastening around one slender wrist so tightly that Isabel 's bones cracked . |
| 9 | Inside the whale , for three days and three nights , Jonah prayed to the Lord and swore his future obedience so convincingly that God ordered the fish to vomit up the penitent . |
| 10 | This may be the inescapable question for the foreseeable future so long as NATO procurement policy is predicated on highly trained work forces , scarce materials and sophisticated machine tools . |
| 11 | I think sometimes it would be better to call it cobra because it does seem to have a very er er deadly sting as far as Lincolnshire 's concerned at the moment . |
| 12 | The book describes it thus : ‘ A good road as far as Whitfield Inn , but Staward Bank doubles back on itself three times and makes some dangerously sharp turns . |
| 13 | This was a practice already known in Padua and its neighbourhood , notably to Ruffino d'Assisi ( c. 1524 ) whose salmi spezzati anticipated the later Venetian double-choral style more closely than Willaert 's . |
| 14 | By 4.30 I was cruising round Seymour swimming pool , parking on the blind side as far as Sedgeley House was concerned . |
| 15 | The agent knows you 've got full authority as far as Larkhill 's concerned . |
| 16 | The Habsburgs took the Turkish threat more seriously than Matthias had done . |
| 17 | In fact , the Princess of Wales — a woman Selina is often compared with — must wish she was able to keep the lid on her private life as tightly as Selina has . |
| 18 | The only disappointment as far as Chalmers is concerned was that the Scots scored only one try . |
| 19 | The foot of the League is beginning to take on a familiar appearance as far as Athletico is concerned : |
| 20 | Take coastal route as far as Caernarfon , leave dual carriageway at Bangor exit , follow route for Holyhead . |
| 21 | In combination with his ardent desire to improve the living standard of the British working man , this made for a potent brand of imperialism ; few politicians took the Dual Mandate more seriously than Ernest Bevin . |
| 22 | Charlie was clearly no big deal as far as Josie was concerned . |
| 23 | It arose from the recent conquest of the northern coastal area as far as Anglesey by his friend Hugh , earl of Chester . |
| 24 | They were pushing at a partially open door as far as Britain was concerned . |
| 25 | In the end the speaker of Homage to Sextus Propertius wins through to articulating that common plight as memorably as Williams 's speaker does — with , as Bunting says , ‘ extraordinary directness … quite naked ’ . |
| 26 | Published posthumously in 1946 , with his own illustrations and an appendix of poems , this rendered the war in the Western Desert as graphically as Blunden 's Undertones of War ( 1928 ) had depicted life and death on the western front . |
| 27 | September 1990 saw the beginning of a new era as far as SCOTVEC 's Advanced Courses were concerned . |
| 28 | It also spreads right through Arabia and the Middle East as far as India and Turkestan . |
| 29 | But he could not have come back at a more opportune time as far as Selkirk are concerned . |
| 30 | But that 's the whole story as far as Tom 's concerned . ’ |