Example sentences of "far [prep] [noun prp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not been the best of years so far for Jimmy White , who was dubbed the bridesmaid of snooker after losing his fourth world championship final in May . |
| 2 | The Gallup/BBC survey shows that Britons do see their future as part of Europe while remaining rightly sceptical about the benefits so far of EC membership . |
| 3 | Donald McLaggan had gone too far with Flora Stewart , swinging so wildly that the girl flung against the smaller table and fell onto it with her hair in the great bowl of broth . |
| 4 | But because , as one inveterate rebel , whose battle honours go back far into Mrs Thatcher 's reign , delightedly claimed after the election , there is a new mood abroad . |
| 5 | To justify their hold on this island far into East Germany , the West Germans must keep up a good show of a thriving community in West Berlin . |
| 6 | Jean had a daughter by her former marriage and , soon after moving to a flat not far from Hamilton Terrace , held a party for her , inviting adults as they as yet knew no children in the area . |
| 7 | Amongst the various surface openings in this area , there is one , not far from Alum Pot , that can be recommended to walkers who would like to test their nerves in the darkness and silence of the underworld and , with a torch , may safely do so without encountering perils . |
| 8 | It made him naturally suspicious of Billy Graham , who among popular missioners was as far from William Nicholson as was possible . |
| 9 | Last year one had come down not far from Little Knoll . |
| 10 | Long books — full of quiet reading far from Mrs Raistrick 's ears , Books with photographs beside the print , beautiful , like film stars , but quiet . |
| 11 | It had tried to snow over Christmas , but in London on the evening of the 27th , it was raining when Jack Carter turned into a small mews near Portman Square not far from SOE Headquarters ; which was why he had chosen it when he 'd received a phone call from Vargas . |
| 12 | They picnicked , and explored the countryside not too far from Lambkin Farm , still quite unaware of the passionate natures they kept in check . |
| 13 | Macbeth fought King Duncan in 1040 , and killed him , perhaps near Elgin , not far from Lossie Forest . |
| 14 | David Damiani 's father Jean owned olive groves , extensive properties in Jaffa , Tel Aviv and Jerusalem and a soap factory which he operated inside the old Turkish serail on the hill above Jaffa not far from St Peter 's church . |
| 15 | But if naval patronage did prove to be of considerable value to the Elphinstone family interest , reinforcing the impact of the Indian patronage distributed by Keith 's brother , William Elphinstone , the fleet could only provide patronage for those officers fortunate enough to be employed in a command in a suitable station far from Great Britain . |
| 16 | Clutching the hot loaf to her chest she fled , expecting every minute to hear shouts of : ‘ Thief … thief … ’ as she threaded between the wharves arriving at a narrow lane not far from Marsh Street where the press gangs roamed . |
| 17 | Intake of the first winter barleys was expected to be ‘ some time this week ’ , at the Woodchurch Farmers Supplies co-op not far from Mr Maylam . |
| 18 | Far from Mr Atkins being considered the distant , unsympathetic figure depicted in the article , he has been a frequent visitor to the school over the past two years , giving support and advice to help us achieve our aims . |
| 19 | The crash happened just within the 30mph limit at Thornton-Le-Dale , not far from Mr Turnbull 's home in Elm View , Pickering . |
| 20 | One such coroner , who was both a lawyer and a doctor , presided over an inquest on the death of the occupants of a Viking aircraft which crashed on a number of council houses at Southall not far from Heathrow Airport . |
| 21 | July 1749 , Hogarth acquired the Copyhold of a red brick villa , of the Queen Anne style , with a garden of about a quarter of an acre containing an old mulberry tree , not far from Chiswick House , and it became known as Hogarth House , and the lane by which it was approached became known as Hogarth Lane — now part of the Great West Road Extension ( A4 ) into central London . |
| 22 | Stuart Pascoe lived in a spacious house not far from Canterbury Cathedral with a garden that swung down to a river . |
| 23 | Down below them , in the village of Bussy , not far from Port au Prince , Kee was in his small wooden house among the trees . |
| 24 | The royal church at Tîrgoviste not far from Curtea de Arges is one of these , built in the sixteenth century . |
| 25 | They lived at first not far from Magdalene College in a house which looked across the river Cam to Midsummer Common . |
| 26 | At the house of the Oratory of the Good Shepherd not far from Magdalene College was one of the remarkable Knox brothers , Wilfred . |
| 27 | In the early summer the family went to its summer house , a small pink-washed mas on a hillside in the Basses-Alpes , not far from Mont Ventoux . |
| 28 | Architecture is also never very far from Ron Janowich 's awareness . |
| 29 | In a street not far from Wymark Street the same demolition firm was disposing of a row of tenements . |
| 30 | The walls of this house where the smith lived and made the " Claidheamh Ceannlleach " are still to be seen at Caonis gall not far from Kilchoman church . |