Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] far [noun] [conj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | We bought cartloads of parchment from Charterhouse , Oxford and even sent orders to places as far north as Norwich and Cambridge . |
| 4 | Excavations south of the fort have shown the existence of contemporary timber buildings as far south as Blackfriars Street . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | At a Christmas assembly at Aachen in 837 , having carefully built up aristocratic and episcopal support , and secured the agreement of Pippin ( whose own ambitions in Francia now looked blighted ) and Louis the German , Louis solemnly conferred on Charles " a part of the regnum " , with the following boundaries : the greater part of the Belgic provinces , in other words , the whole of Frisia from the North Sea and Saxon frontier as far as the frontier of the Ripuarian Franks , and along the latter , the counties of Mulekewe , Ettra , Hamarlant and Maasgau ; then all the territory between the Meuse and Seine as far south as Burgundy , including Verdun ; and going from Burgundy , the counties of Toul , Ornois , Blois , Blaisois , Perthois , the two Bars [ i.e. Bar-le-Duc and Bar-sur-Aube ] , Brienne , Troyes , Auxerre , Sens , the Gâtinais , Melun , Etampes , the Pays de Châtres , and Paris ; then along the Seine to the Channel and up the coast as far as Frisia again : within these , all the bishoprics , abbacies , counties , fisclands , and all pertaining thereto . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Slavs accompanied the Avar hordes who invaded the Byzantine empire in the late sixth century , laying waste cities as far south as Tiveropolis ( Strumica in south-east Macedonia ) and enslaving or slaughtering the indigenous population . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Lake sediment records in Ecuador suggest that there was regional flooding of western Amazonia 1300–800 BP , i.e. major hydrological disturbance , which raised the water level as far east as Manaus , while savanna regions seem to have persisted on the northern edge of the basin throughout the late Quaternary . |
| 11 | Mola had estimated that it should take about three weeks to conquer the coastal area as far west as Santander . |
| 12 | May I suggest that you include the rural parishes in Wyre District as far south as Garstang in this consultation . |
| 13 | In 1771 the completion of the Bromberg Canal had linked the Vistula with the Oder and Berlin ; the Dniepr-Bug Canal and the Dniepr-Niemen Canal ( 1775–84 ) opened up the possibility of river trade as far south as Kiew and the Black Sea . |
| 14 | Does the Secretary of State remember that in Northern Ireland Question Time on 12 December he and I shared a concern about the build-up of munitions and arms as far south as Limerick for trans-shipment to Northern Ireland , as unfortunately happened ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | Not only were limestones deposited in Europe as far south as Cantabria and right across the Mid-West , they also went a lot farther . |
| 18 | The conquest of Egypt and Cyrenaica as far west as Euesperides ( not far from Benghazi ) by the Persian Kambyses did not entail the overthrow of the Battiads , nor did it interrupt the cultural traffic of Dorian Cyrene with Ionian Attica . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Pawson has shown that the Newcastle Journal in 1739 was distributed to agents as far south-west as Preston , south-east as Ripon , north as Eyemouth and west as Whitehaven.24 At the other end of the country , by the 1770s the Sherborne Mercury was read from Salisbury to Penzance . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , it is because of their influence that Roman Catholic adherents were found in the seventeenth century as far east as Bulgaria . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Members have always owned vast estates and , through important heiress alliances , acquired ( and sometimes disposed of ) property in many counties as far south as Dorset and Kent . |