Example sentences of "as [adv] [adv] [conj] [noun prp] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it should be clear to us now that the English hide which she thought so ‘ thickly padded ’ was in fact morbidly sensitive — certainly as long ago as Beerbohm 's spitefulness in the 1930s , and perhaps as long ago as Robert Nichols 's inexusable review of ‘ Homage to Sextus Propertius ’ in 1920 . |
| 2 | Ireland , which had been ruled by England for nearly seven centuries , had remained largely Roman Catholic — despite considerable immigration from Scotland and England to Ulster , in the seventeenth century — had harboured bitterness as long ago as Queen Elizabeth I 's time and , in 1845 , a great period of famine occurred , resulting in wholesale emigration , mainly to the United States of America , generally in ships with appalling travelling facilities and causing appreciable loss of life to the passengers on the way . |
| 3 | That there are people alive as straight ahead as Abslom Daak . |
| 4 | Our own hardships palled to insignificance when we learned that often their ships were away from home for six months , and that they could be roaming as far afield as Nova Scotia after leaving Scotland . |
| 5 | Many came from within North America itself , but others concentrated from as far afield as South Africa , Australia and China . |
| 6 | WINE-growers from as far afield as South Africa and Chile are in Belfast today for the annual wine-tasting organised by drinks company Guinness . |
| 7 | Approximately half the force were from the Commonwealth — Aussies , Canadians , New Zealanders , South Africans , Rhodesians and even from as far afield as Hong Kong , Fiji and the West Indies , this all made for healthy competition . |
| 8 | This week , 13 and 14-year-old pupils have been gathering data on the county 's public footpath system , working as far afield as Saffron Walden . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And what happens from district to district , region to region , is sometimes as far apart as John Major and the British people . |
| 11 | ‘ It could be defined more as a jazz-funk fusion , drawing from influences as far apart as Miles Davis and Parliament . |
| 12 | The Sutherland and Ross-shire county boundary runs down the middle of the loch , touching the coast at the outlet of Kirkaig River , and Fionn collects in waters from hundreds of square miles , gathering them from as far away as Loch Borralan , at Atnacealgach , Urigill , Cama , the ‘ crooked loch ’ , and long , windswept Veyatie , below Cul Mor . |
| 13 | Guests included 8 past presidents as far back as Roger Mansfield ( 1960–61 ) . |
| 14 | It seems that a lot of the new guitar players in bands do n't seem to go back anymore to check who their idols were influenced by — like , they 'll go as far back as Jimmy Page then stop , without finding out about his influences … |
| 15 | ‘ But I find it very sad that someone as high up as Mr Pound should castigate a sport he clearly knows nothing about . ’ |