Example sentences of "[adv] far [noun sg] [conj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We bought cartloads of parchment from Charterhouse , Oxford and even sent orders to places as far north as Norwich and Cambridge . |
| 2 | Other communities of vici acting as corporate bodies are attested by inscriptions from Housesteads , Chesterholm and even as far north as Carriden on the Antonine Wall . |
| 3 | Significantly their arrival coincided with the first wave of summer visitors in more southerly parts of Britain , including wheatears reported as far north as Staffordshire . |
| 4 | To the east the Merovingians controlled the French- and German-speaking areas of Switzerland , as well as Belgium , Luxembourg and the Rhineland , at least as far north as Utrecht . |
| 5 | The famous Lisbon earthquake of 1755 , which had faint reverberations as far north as Scotland , led George II to issue a solemn admonition to his people to the effect that ‘ the manifold Sins and Wickedness of these Kingdoms have most justly deserved heavy and severe Punishments from the Hand of Heaven . ’ |
| 6 | With the increased comfort and greater operational range more ambitious patrols could now be carried out and Venturous began to be seen as far north as Islay on the west coast and the Tyne on the east coast . |
| 7 | This will be the start of a one month Scottish tour which Pam hopes will take her as far north as Nairn . |
| 8 | The last time I travelled from Wick to Dingwall was when the railway only reached as far north as Golspie ; the other portion of the road was an overnight stage-coach journey ; and to accommodate some ladies I took a seat on the top : it was a clear cold night , and the air was keen indeed . |
| 9 | Significant levels of trading went on outside this inner area , and scattered finds of Minoan products have been made as far west as the Lipari Islands off the coast of Italy , as far north as Troy ( stone lamps ) , and as far east as Egypt and Syria , where Minoan vases made of precious metal have been found . |
| 10 | Brown soils of this level of maturity are found as far north as Devon Island ( 75°30'N ) in the Canadian Arctic , forming mosaics with polar desert soils ( Walker and Peters , 1977 ) . |
| 11 | The short season available for growth restricts annuals and biennials mainly to the arctic fringe ; one notable exception , Koenigia islandica , produces tiny plants 4–5 cm high in especially favoured areas as far north as Devon Island and northern Greenland , where they set seed annually . |
| 12 | Support for the aged warrior extended as far north as Angouleme and seemed to present a serious threat to Frankish rule in Aquitaine . |
| 13 | Further off in that direction , on the site of the modern village of Makroteichos , there were Minoan houses and traces of Minoan houses have been found as far north as Palaiomilo , some 600 metres north of the temple precinct : beyond this area was the northern cemetery of Zafer Papoura . |
| 14 | This species has been recorded from the western Atlantic where it has been found from the West Indies as far north as South Carolina 295–763 m . |
| 15 | But in 1968 a pair of owls bred in the loft of an oil palm manager 's house and since then they have spread rapidly , throughout the southern states as far north as Kuala Lumpur . |
| 16 | These delightful birds , one species out of the eighteen to be found in the Southern Hemisphere , come from the relatively temperate latitudes along the western coast of South America as far north as Peru . |
| 17 | It is found as far north as Mexico and as far south as southern Brazil . |
| 18 | The GC was completely lifted as far north as Duckmanton North Junction , leaving a single track in use to serve Arkwright colliery via the LD & EC curves . |
| 19 | The Indo-Pacific hump-backed dolphin , also listed in CITES Appendix 1 , is found throughout the Indian Ocean , and as far north as Canton in China and as far east as Sydney , Australia . |
| 20 | Judaic authorities could assert themselves only as far north as Syria with the approval of the Roman administration . |
| 21 | Even so , B.T. Hudson has recently stressed that a spelling in D is irrelevant to one in E , and used twelfth-century evidence ( and E is a twelfth-century manuscript ) to show that in any case Mælbæth is a convincing English version of Macbeth , whose family ruled , conceivably by the early eleventh century with the title king , an area around the Moray Firth as far north as Sutherland and Caithness . |
| 22 | From the Wash in the east to the Dee in the west , as far north as York , to Amesbury in the south , the night had been one of monstrous destruction . |
| 23 | Ivory was certainly carried as far north as York during Anglo-Saxon times . |
| 24 | But before you get on the phone to the North Shields headquarters , be warned : the Standard will only lend to those living in the North East and as far south as Hartlepool . |
| 25 | O. cuspidata has been recorded in the eastern Atlantic from iceland as far south as Ascension Island with a bathymetric range of 768–2460 m . |
| 26 | Average January temperatures are below freezing point , even as far south as Bitola , which lies in the same latitude as Naples . |
| 27 | ‘ We currently transport in the region of 225,000 litres of milk to Manchester every week for distribution as far south as Birmingham and Coventry and to Hull and Grimsby in the east . |
| 28 | With help from officers from the Federation Against Copyright Theft ( Fact ) , which made the prosecution , they uncovered a wide network of shops throughout the North-East , and as far south as Cambridgeshire , which had received videos from Classic Video . |
| 29 | During the Pleistocene , however , things might have been different : as the ice sheets moved further south they brought tundra conditions to latitudes as far south as Spain , and the resulting climate and environment at these lower latitudes would have been unlike anything known today because of differences in rainfall and solar incidence . |
| 30 | The runs became longer in successive weeks , with the destinations moving from Selby to Doncaster to Nottingham and ultimately as far south as Southampton . |