Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] far [conj] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's been lucky of course , in that respect , in that he has had something to occupy himself over the last few months as far as the Gulf war is concerned , and in that respect , of course , I think I do n't I think it would be very difficult to fault him . |
| 2 | A further exploration with von Wissmann in 1939 took him from Aden , through the almost unknown highlands to the north-east as far as the Wadi Jirdan and on into Hadhramaut , the results appearing in his Aden to the Hadhramaut ( 1947 ) . |
| 3 | The more southerly route lay across a gap in the Urals to the Irtysh and thence , after the Tatar khanate had been defeated , up the middle Ob and its tributaries , such as the Ket , to where a portage led to the middle reaches of the Yenisei ; from here they ascended the Upper ( or ‘ Stony ’ ) Tunguska as far as the Ilim , and so either by portage to the Lena or up the Angara towards Lake Baikal . |
| 4 | I checked to see if Armstrong was still there and then I risked a crouching run as far as the Sierra 's tail lights . |
| 5 | A few stumps of the 1859 pier built by the company remain , together with lengths of the tramway which ran from the pier-head to the coalyard and stone bankers as far as the Brook . |
| 6 | The route was to proceed along Thicket Road and Beckenham Road as far as the Penge/Beckenham boundary . |
| 7 | Roughly speaking , the parts of England most affected by this type of planning form a great belt which sweeps round from Flamborough Head on the Yorkshire coast , down through the Midlands as far as the Dorset coast , and thence north-eastwards along the chalk uplands to the Norfolk coast . |
| 8 | Wednesday 12 February 1800 was a commonplace day as far as the Pearmans were concerned . |
| 9 | Comparable buildings are also visible from the air north of the defences as far as the River Nene , apart from the low-lying Billing Brook area . |
| 10 | Stephen thought it a curious place to leave one 's car , blocking , or partly blocking , the northbound roadway , while taking it a farther ten yards on would have enabled its driver to pull in onto the bridlepath that traversed the Vale as far as the Reeve 's way . |
| 11 | " We can go up under Wandsworth Bridge as far as the Fina Oil Depot and then switch off and drift down with the tide . " |
| 12 | Before the days of radio , boats like her would race down-channel as far as the Lizard to get first contact for the ship-to-shore trade from vessels making port . |
| 13 | Last time round they went to south east Asia , trekked in Nepal as far as the Everest base camp , saw Thailand and China then came back on the Trans-Siberian Railway . |
| 14 | Now what were the limits so far as the Vietnam war was concerned ? |
| 15 | Now what were the limits so far as the Vietnam war was concerned ? |
| 16 | ‘ What you have here is a traditional account of Masai origins , but also mixed with the arrival of this woman — I am assuming , although it is not my business , the ethnographer , Claude Cohn-Casson — yes , okay , well , there was an incident during the war , a famous incident as far as the Masai is concerned , when a British official was killed in a very small dispute about cattle . |
| 17 | Gregory learnt from his Roman sources that Chlodio captured Cambrai , and occupied territory as far as the Somme . |
| 18 | This obviously causes a minor slow down in perceived performance as far as the SX chip is concerned , but the percentage difference is small enough to be negligible in real world applications . |
| 19 | I had three children , a home to run … and tunnel vision as far as the Spencers were concerned . |
| 20 | The Secretary of State 's duty so far as the Lord Chief Justice and the trial judge are concerned , is only to ‘ consult . ’ |
| 21 | There is no danger of too many coaches spoiling the broth as far as the Hong Kong RFU is concerned though : Simpkin will have all the power he needs on the playing side . |
| 22 | Charles led an Austrasian and Saxon army personally down the Danube , and wasted Avar territories as far as the River Raab . |
| 23 | In the year A.D. 43 , Emperor Claudius sent an army under Aulus Plautius , who quickly subdued Kent as far as the Medway where again the British forces gathered to oppose the Romans . |
| 24 | In the Appalachian region there were repeated uplifts giving rise to coarse detritus in the trough to the west , whilst a vast shallow carbonate-depositing sea extended over the stable interior of North America as far as the Pacific ranges . |
| 25 | We 'll make a hypothetical traverse from Easter Island on the East Pacific Rise ( an oceanic ridge , remember ) right across South America as far as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge , so we 'll be starting at one plate margin , crossing a second and ending up at a third , each of them , of course , marked by a major belt of seismic activity [ see Fig. 2 ] . |