Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [adv] [adv] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it remains an open question whether the dust continues beyond about 100 metres , becoming fully compacted rock at 10 to 20 km , or whether it gives way to broken rock somewhere not far beyond 100 metres depth . |
| 2 | The strength of any restaurant business lies in its reputation — you are only as good as the last meal you have served — and in order to preserve the high standards that have brought this business so very far , Forte need people who can match the best in the industry : people with some supervisory level experience under their belts ; with a real commitment to customer service , lots of enthusiasm and driving ambition . |
| 3 | Extend the top leg forwards as far as is comfortable and hold in this position . |
| 4 | Extend the top leg forwards as far as possible and then stretch it forwards and back 30 times , moving it about 3ins ( 7.6cm ) each time . |
| 5 | Extend the top leg forwards as far as possible and then stretch it forwards and back 30 times , moving it about 3 ins ( 7.6cm ) each time . |
| 6 | Extend the top leg forwards as far as possible and then stretch it forwards and back 35 times , moving it about 3ins ( 7.6cm ) each time . |
| 7 | Extend the top leg forwards as far as possible and then stretch it forwards and back 35 times , moving it 3ins ( 7.6cm ) each time . |
| 8 | Extend the top leg forwards as far as possible and then stretch it forwards and back 35 times , each time moving it 3ins ( 7.6cm ) . |
| 9 | Extend the top leg forwards as far as possible and then stretch it forwards and back 35 times , moving it 3 ins ( 7.6 cm ) each time . |
| 10 | Extend the top leg forwards as far as possible and then stretch it forwards and back 35 times , each time moving it 3ins ( 7.6cm ) . |
| 11 | Extend the top leg forwards as far as possible and then stretch it forwards and back 40 times , each time moving it 3ins ( 7.6cm ) . |
| 12 | On the rear lawn not too far from the house stood a summerhouse . |
| 13 | And now that I am inclined to hear time 's winged chariot hovering near , and see deserts of vast eternity not too far ahead , I am determined to make the most of my remaining years both in my secluded garden and on my open-space allotment . |
| 14 | Spilsby is well known locally for its Theatre which regularly puts on performances to provide musical and dramatic culture in this rural township so inaccessibly far from the big city footlights . |
| 15 | The Oswaldston Arts Club had an exhibition room , which they called the Lowry Gallery , in the upper storey of a disused warehouse not too far from the centre of town . |
| 16 | I 'D never heard of Mike Harding until I moved to Sedbergh , a little town not too far from Hawes , but a long way away from anywhere else . |
| 17 | Roxburgh could probably name the Maltese team even this far in advance of Wednesday night 's kick-off . |
| 18 | I know a little place not too far from here . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , Rupert , back to your solitary meal in your neo-Edwardian house rather too far west of St John 's Wood , ’ said a voice near Penelope . |
| 20 | I locked the Transit — you can take peace , harmony and sisterly love just so far — and threaded my way back through the tents to the fire Melanie had lit near the clapped-out bus without wheels . |
| 21 | It was a small house , only a cottage , but there was an attic room for the children and a good school not too far away . |
| 22 | In a blind reflex not too far from panic , she wheeled into the bushes and began to thrash her way through them . |
| 23 | He thought he was the odd man out as far as nationality was concerned because everybody else , including me , was North American . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Nothing in soft conventionalism guarantees , or even promotes , the ideal of protected expectations , that past decisions will be relied on to justify collective force only so far as their authority and their terms are made uncontroversial by widely accepted conventions . |
| 26 | Still in this vein , one element not so far introduced is risk and uncertainty and its impact on the modelling of frameworks and outcomes . |
| 27 | Dress code : Adidas tracksuits and shells ( fat laces , of course ) Kangols and Westwood Buffalo hats ( which were quite silly enough the first time round as far as we 're concerned ) . |
| 28 | And at Wyvis Hall , below the woods and above the river , with the nearest road half a mile away and the nearest house twice as far as that , total silence prevailed . |
| 29 | No it 's not That kind of machine is is the water is they they pump the bloody thing up so far , so your your washing machi your er blah blah bl your your clothes is so dry . |
| 30 | The defeat brought home in the most devastating fashion just how far the Empire 's development had fallen behind that of her Great Power rivals in the West . |