Example sentences of "far [subord] [noun prp] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We could travel together as far as Doha and I would go on alone to Abu Dhabi . |
| 2 | Western Turkey and Sicily were initially affected , but by 1348 it had spread as far as Spain and Morocco . |
| 3 | Therefore , unless hiking with considerable fortitude , the only way to approximate their journey is to take the normal road up as far as Invermoriston and then continue on its south-western fork , the A887 , and in time it becomes the road — or so I presume — ; Johnson and Boswell travelled , the one cut by General Wade , straight across the rising land and emerging a little over half-way along the present road through Glenmoriston . |
| 4 | Western ports did play a part in shipping corn to London , in some years at least , the capital 's swallow reaching as far as Exeter and beyond to Cornwall . |
| 5 | So far as Gassendi and ( as we shall see ) Locke were concerned this objection is misplaced for , having a modest and moral view of our proper concerns , they retain an element of scepticism about man 's ability to know . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've told her we 'll give her a lift as far as Malaga and that 's what we 'll do . ’ |
| 7 | Joyce was now informed that since his problems concerned travel outside Germany , he must first take a train as far as Cologne and go to the consulate there . |
| 8 | Although , long before Johnson , Daniel Defoe found Elgin ‘ a very agreeable place to live in ’ — those gentry not wishing to venture as far as Edinburgh or London came in from the Highlands for the winter — Elgin 's time came later : a half-century after our heroes ' visit , it became a little classical Victorian market town whose streets and suburbs echoed Edinburgh 's New Town in elegance and spaciousness . |
| 9 | I got as far as Grantchester and I thought , fuck it , yes , why not ? |
| 10 | Elf clippers sailed as far as Nippon and Cathay in search of goods . |
| 11 | I followed the Awash as far as Bilen and then turned eastwards across the desert to Afdam on the railway . |
| 12 | ‘ You can go as far as Burnley if you 're old or disabled . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The group has received donations from well-wishers from as far as Bangor and Holyhead . |
| 15 | This language , which formed the basis of Old Church Slavonic , was diffused throughout the Balkans and into central Europe , as far as Moravia and southern Poland , through the missionary activities of Constantine-Cyril and Methodius . |
| 16 | As far as Paul and Granville are concerned , they 've already come an unfeasibly long way since they got together a couple of years ago at college in Derby . |
| 17 | The first view we can call the " empiricist " , and derives from a philosophical tradition which reaches back as far as Aristotle and runs through more historically recent figures such as Bacon , Locke , Hume , J.S. Mill , and , in the twentieth century , the logical positivists and , latterly , the neo-realists . |
| 18 | The South India Railway was to be built as far as Ramaswaram and then connected to Ceylon by embankments and bridges . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Yek Khans ruled N'pan to the east , and as far as Suristan and Ch'kasia to the west . |
| 21 | It also spreads right through Arabia and the Middle East as far as India and Turkestan . |
| 22 | He got as far as Rugby before he was caught . |
| 23 | Sightings have been reported from as far as France and the Netherlands . |
| 24 | The play got as far as Wimbledon and then seemed to die . |
| 25 | In 517 a major invasion occurred when Slav horsemen advanced as far as Thermopylae and Epirus . |
| 26 | Essentially , we are talking about the cold war period , so brilliantly analysed by Mary Kaldor under the rubric of ‘ imaginary war ’ , and as far as Europe and relations between the Soviet Union and the United States are concerned , I have little to add . |
| 27 | Later when there were large sailing ships they used the deep water channel as far as Kingston-upon-Hull but they docked in the River Hull to unload their cargoes and the goods were carried inland by barges on the rivers to Selby , York , Beverley and Gainsborough . |
| 28 | I have a fancy to show myself as far as Newport and Cardiff , while they lose themselves in the mountains of Maelienydd and Brecon . ’ |
| 29 | They come , he said , from a wide area : from as far as Newcastle and Durham , Stockton , Middlesbrough and Redcar . |
| 30 | Well , the er power stations all round the , Northern Europe are affecting it , as far as Norway and Sweden are concerned , er much of the pollution comes from Eastern Europe er and erm something like ten to twenty per cent comes from the U K as far as Norway is concerned , and five to ten per cent in Sweden . |