Example sentences of "in [noun] [adv] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They believed they could win votes in Sunderland just as surely as in Mid-Sussex . |
| 2 | Q. You have been involved in projects as far afield as China and South Africa . |
| 3 | ‘ In pregnancies as far along as yours , one 's womb will expand and then contract after the termination , causing some pain and discomfort . |
| 4 | The Government has invested £1.1m to make CD-Rom technology available in schools and apart from being available in many North-East schools our CD-Rom is widely used in schools as far afield as St Albans and London . |
| 5 | The worst hit areas were in North Wales , the north west and the Midlands , although no-one 's been hurt in the mini quake which was felt in districts as far apart as Devon and Scotland . |
| 6 | Such enterprises now account for more than 60 per cent of industrial employment in countries as far apart as Ghana and Tanzania ; more than half of them are located in small towns and villages , and the extended family is their most important source of labour ; they contribute at least a quarter of total manufacturing output ; and typically they employ between one and ten workers . |
| 7 | ORT is one example of the health care programmes which CARE is helping to introduce in countries as far apart as India and Peru . |
| 8 | Hopefully you will also be raising money through sponsorship to help selected projects in countries far worse off than our own . |
| 9 | ‘ You can get those in law just as well as medicine . |
| 10 | A bizarre by-product has been the recognition of various richly decorated fragments of the church in places as far afield as Barcelona , Venice , Aquileia , and even Vienna , presumably carried off to the West as loot after 1204 , by members of the Fourth Crusade who evidently had an eye for exotic sculpture . |
| 11 | In fact , wind power is already contributing energy to the national grid in places as far apart as Ilfracombe in Devon , and Ripon in North Yorkshire , with dozens more wind farms planned by the turn of the century . |
| 12 | Frenchmen in the late eleventh century were not the first people to experience romantic passion ; the emotion found expression in earlier poems in places as far apart as ancient Egypt and tenth-century Germany . |
| 13 | For a time before the Roman invasions several powerful Illyrian or Graeco-Illyrian kingdoms existed in places as far apart as modern Albania and Macedonia in the south and the upper Sava basin in the north . |
| 14 | It has no apparent direct ancestors or descendants , yet it turns up simultaneously in places as far apart as Indonesia , northern Siberia , Turkey and Nevada . |
| 15 | Here , in the suburbs of the Metropolis , members of the extended family whose ancestors had parted company down in Wiltshire as long ago as the late 16th century found neighbouring resting places . |
| 16 | The deal , released yesterday , will boost Tory election prospects in seats as far apart as Preston , Lancashire , where British Aerospace build Tornado bombers , Brough on Humberside , where Hawk trainers are built , Southampton where Vosper 's build minesweepers , and Yeovil in Somerset , the home of Westland helicopters — all expected to be part of the arms package . |
| 17 | Two of the very common gold coins of the Roman Emperor Claudius I , struck from the same dies , have been found in hoards as far apart as Kent and southern India . |
| 18 | Although never destined to flourish as an active conduit for combined activity , Pateman linked District students with the WETUC scheme for the remission of fees where appropriate — in aggregate usually never more than £20 a year . |
| 19 | The inhalation of iodine-131 could cause thyroid cancer in people as far away as 24 km , and there is a 20 per cent probability that over a period of 10–20 years between 1000 and 10,000 people could develop thyroid cancer ( less than 10 per cent of these would be fatal cancers ) . |
| 20 | By the end of the 19th century , Guinness was being enjoyed in territories as far apart as America , Africa and Australia . |
| 21 | To my academic colleagues on both the physical and human sides and the biogeographical middle of the subject I would like to express the hope that my method of expressing salient parameters , in fields as far apart as climatology and social geography , in terms of a common set of units — the Watt and the calorie — has value for the future of our subject . |
| 22 | First , there was the fact that the crucifix is mentioned in documents as far back as the 1500s , and since what was visible clearly was later in date , restorers reasoned that there must be something underneath it ; then there were the traces of thirteenth-century paint at the foot of the cross . |
| 23 | When a report on its activities last appeared in ACCOUNTANCY as long ago as December 1983 , the committee formed part of the Institute 's Professional Conduct Department , providing it with a means of reacting to complaints of a technical nature without invoking the full panoply of investigatory and disciplinary procedures . |
| 24 | The two selection regimes had the expected effects on host fitness : infected bacteria in the vertically transmitted lines increased in density much more quickly than those in the lines where horizontal transmission could occur . |
| 25 | It is unfortunate that the confirmation of Æthelric of Bocking 's will , with its reference to a plan to receive him in Essex perhaps as early as 991 , gives no further details . |
| 26 | Taken from 190 miles above , the film shows pollution in rivers and oceans , the extent of rainforest destruction from burning and major silt damage in rivers as far apart as the Mississippi , the Yangtze and the Betsiboka in Madagascar . |
| 27 | The First Orchestra has recently appeared in venues as far apart as Worcester Cathedral , Dunkeld Cathedral , Huntly Parish Church and the Usher Hall , and also enjoys a number of foreign links which have taken them to Denmark , Bavaria and Italy within the last few years . |
| 28 | Although he had always feared the night , the boy knew the big house in darkness almost as well as in daylight . |
| 29 | Revell 's tactic has been to make the body four inches deep , to maximise the volume of air within the guitar ; the body is in fact almost as deep as the soundhole rosette is wide . |
| 30 | There is a universal rebellion in the air , and the power of the two colossal superstates may be , yes , may just be ebbing , may be failing in energy even more rapidly than we are failing in energy , and if that is so , then the destructive , the liberating , the creative nihilism of the Hip , the frantic search for potent change may break into the open with all its violence , its confusion , its ugliness and horror . |