Example sentences of "from the far [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As dusk gradually falls at the end of Mid-summer 's Eve a flicker of bonfires links the highest points of Cornwall , from the far West to Kit Hill on the English border . |
| 2 | As one , they shrank away from the far wall , watching rainwater trickling through the cracks in the boards and spattering on the basement floor . |
| 3 | From the far edge of the terrace I could see down to where I had been lying only an hour or two before . |
| 4 | Extra liquid exuding from the far edge can be evaporated away quickly by blowing across the specimen ; this avoids wrinkling at the edge of the film , which would make it difficult to flatten the peel for subsequent study . |
| 5 | It must have been there all the time , sitting motionless and staring straight at me from the far edge of the level area of the Grounds , but I had n't noticed it at first . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh , ’ Gioella said dismissively , ‘ just someone from the far past . |
| 7 | Kylesku was the vital key for travellers to or from the far north , the alternative being a thirty-mile detour to the east . |
| 8 | The underground realm was connected by tunnels stretching from the far north to the south beyond the Old World itself . |
| 9 | On these pools , red-necked phalarope were feeding in numbers , and in one group of over seventy was a solitary grey phalarope , probably a visitor from the far north . |
| 10 | In fly wetland birds from the far north — to winter on the Washes . |
| 11 | When he looked at you it was as if an icy wind blew from the far north . |
| 12 | He came from the far north and at the Highland games he used to array himself in kilt and sporran and throw cabers around like matchsticks . |
| 13 | The squadron also flew the Iraq Levies , A sort of RAF Regiment of the day , they were mainly Kurds who came from the far north of Iraq excellent soldiers but poor airmen who generally laid their breakfast on the cabin floor whilst we were taxying , to take-off . |
| 14 | Marathon meeting MEMBERS of one of Britain 's most exclusive clubs are meeting at Land 's End to celebrate their marathons from the far north of Scotland to the tip of Cornwall . |
| 15 | It is pointed out that the extinct quagga , a zebra with much less striping , came from the far south of Africa where the climate is cooler and that the northern , stripeless horses also enjoy cooler weather . |
| 16 | Standing by her table was a black-skinned girl from the far south , eyes and teeth dazzling white ; breasts and buttocks mirroring orbs . |
| 17 | The US currency appeared to shrug off the impact of Thursday 's round of European interest rate increases led by the Bundesbank , and central bank intervention yesterday , chiefly because of expectations of strong demand for the dollar from the Far East . |
| 18 | This may be attributed to the fact that the city 's traders were not swamped by the growth of the larger British companies during the colonial period , that among the merchant families involved in the kola nut trade , two generations were common , and that merchant families in Kano were particularly successful from the early 1960s at forming links with overseas companies , not least with those from the Far East . |
| 19 | The ‘ Jay Yang ’ range takes its inspiration from the Far East with traditional floral designs with striking background colours creating the drama of the Eastern world . |
| 20 | Intense competition from the Far East began to conjure up unheard-of sums for Imperial porcelains , jades , lacquers and bronzes ; serious but collectable subjects which had passed through the books so calmly before 1960 now went out of reach . |
| 21 | He had no problems in stocking these from the Far East , India or the Cape with help from Dutch merchant-ship captains , but he wanted to obtain those North American novelties which he knew to be flourishing at Chelsea , so in July 1736 Linnaeus came to England with a letter of introduction from Boerhaave to Sir Hans Sloane . |
| 22 | However , it became established at Woodford and through Warner 's generosity offshoots were distributed , as were many other rarities raised by him from seeds brought in from the Far East . |
| 23 | In one south German fish farm , only a few of 300 000 young carp survived an outbreak of the ringworm Bothriocephalus acheilognathi , which spread from the Far East . |
| 24 | In the last five years the UK colour TV industry has all but disappeared as firms from the Far East have taken over . |
| 25 | In Third World countries , even or especially those only slightly affected by western economies , almost all active men and their wives and children are engaged in trade ; if we imagine the corn and wool from local sources , the oil and wine from further off , the spices from the Far East and the slaves from heaven-knows-where who filled the fairs and markets of Europe in increasing quantities in the eleventh and twelfth centuries — above all , if we contemplate the great stone buildings and recall the quarries whence came the stone — we can see that there is an immense effort here largely hidden from our eyes . |
| 26 | At the kind of prices Fiat are asking , it does represent a more appealing alternative in the market sector otherwise occupied by eccentrics from the Far East and Commie cast-offs . |
| 27 | Anthea had obtained a colourful series of slides showing modern plague victims from the Far East with their various swellings and eruptions . |
| 28 | It seems that Cleaner Shrimps represent more than 15% of the total imports of invertebrates from the Far East and the damage to that trade would be significant if alternative captive-bred sources were developed . |
| 29 | ‘ The problem is worldwide , not just limited to goods from the Far East , and is rife within Europe , ’ says Anthea Worsdall , secretary of the Anti-Counterfeiting Group . |
| 30 | In a fashionable area now known as Brompton Cross ( just a short walk from Harrods , Joseph and The Conran Shop ) , Linda and Neville Codling run Eastern Accents which they founded nine years ago on their return from the Far East . |