Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] far as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ian and Vicki decide to explore as far as the next hill , leaving Barbara and the Doctor behind to sunbathe . |
| 2 | erm well it does n't necessary apply that the agent is suing the name , the question is whether , what any right the agent has got , er the fact of the matter is as I understand it and tell me if I 'm wrong , that your client has erm received a demand under clause nine er , er which he has failed to comply , I think that must follow because er if he had complied with it , then that would never of got as far as the central fund |
| 3 | The otter was the only strictly European species to make it into the overall ‘ Top 10 ’ , though badger , fox and hedgehog all got as far as the top 20 . |
| 4 | I 'd got as far as the top step on that flight when the phone went again . |
| 5 | Having got as far as the inverted stage , the easiest answer is to pull the stick back and perform a ha If loop to recover ( again , that 's why you needed lots of height ) . |
| 6 | The radiation that strikes the Earth — or at least gets as far as the outer atmosphere — is of two main kinds . |
| 7 | There is even evidence to suggest that elephants existed as far as the Upper Euphrates basin as late as the first millennium B.C. Syrian ivory contributed to the supplies available to New Kingdom Egypt and at the same time provided the material for the flourishing school of ivory workers based on Tyre , the products of which enriched the civilizations of the east Mediterranean and Assyria . |
| 8 | Directly across the channel was another , bigger bay , a long curving stretch of lovely white sand , with above it a sweep of green turf and bracken rising as far as the dark circle of the broch . |
| 9 | The proposal got as far as a White Paper which suggested a two-tier system — life peers with voting rights and other members who could take part in debate but not vote . |
| 10 | Last year , there were protracted negotiations for Tucson , Arizona-based direct rival Artisoft Inc to take over Performance , which got as far as the two signing a letter of intent to that effect . |
| 11 | She got as far as the other side of the wide bed before being dragged back and pinned beneath fitzAlan 's forceful weight for the second time that night . |
| 12 | ‘ Ever since my father got as far as the fourth fence when leading the field on Zimulator in L'Escargot 's year in 1975 , I have wanted to do well in the race , ’ he told me . |
| 13 | Australia and New Zealand even wanted to go as far as the international operation of aircraft on trunk routes . |
| 14 | Despite the failure of similar tactics on the Madrid front , it had been planned as another Moroccan-type , head-on attack along the first line of Republican defences , with the aim of breaking through at two points , advancing as far as the second line of defence and laying siege to Bilbao from there . |
| 15 | Combined with the federal structure of Germany this means that services are de-centralized as far as the political and administrative levels of national state ( Bundesstaat ) , federal state ( Land ) , district ( Kreis ) and local authority are concerned and additionally dispersed over an almost indescribable multiplicity of semi- and non-statutory organizations . |
| 16 | Passing lamp-lit windows through which they could see sleeping Japanese soldiers and men talking in small groups , they had gone as far as a machine-gun post among the buildings — probably part of the anti-aircraft defences-when a Japanese soldier came up . |
| 17 | We shall instead suggest ( 40 ) , where the fact that the arrowhead passes through the square bracket is intended to show that the minor property does not simply qualify the entity as a whole , but the fact that it does not reach as far as the round bracket shows that the adjective is not a sense-qualifier : ( 40 ) |
| 18 | The light of the lamp did not reach as far as the high ceiling , and the fire had burned low . |
| 19 | Indeed it does , and it seems the job can not be left to the mere television reviewer either , for criticism soon leaked from the cultural pages to the overtly political ones , even reaching as far as the editorial sections of some newspapers . |
| 20 | One piece of good news is that Clinton has stated that he will not go as far as a recent legislative proposal , which would have required certain foreign-owned firms and branches to report a minimum amount of US taxable income . |
| 21 | Adjustment can now come about automatically via the exchange rate , although the success of this mechanism depends upon the elasticity of demand for imports and exports as far as the current account is concerned , and on the stability of capital flows for an overall balance of payments . |
| 22 | Because of my injury I did get as far as the Spanish Steps and the shops in Rome , but that was the extent of my sightseeing . |
| 23 | The comforting knowledge that at least she will get as far as the British Embassy tonight gives her the strength for attack . |
| 24 | He did not get as far as the main Cossack encampments at Peggetz and Oberdrauberg near Lienz , a considerable distance further west . |
| 25 | They did n't get as far as the Tibetan border , where the exchange rate would have been better . |
| 26 | The most likely outcome is to sell players until the club are doomed as far as the Premier League are concerned — but , for the long-term , he will put in more money to keep the name alive . |
| 27 | The northern part of the Adriatic coast was under Italian influence , of which the best example is Poreć ( Parenzo ) already described on pp. 116 , 119 ( 202 , 203 ) , while the mountainous central area extending as far as the southern part of the Adriatic coastline contains Serbian Byzantine churches . |
| 28 | The nun who admitted them appeared to be covered from head to foot apart from her eyes , nose , and mouth , for after she had bolted the gate behind them she tucked her bare hands into her sleeves , then led the way up a gravel path , on either side of which a lawn extended as far as a further high , stone wall , its top also embedded with glass . |
| 29 | The solution would involve mediation by the signatories of the protocol , a proposal hitherto rejected by Ecuador [ see p. 38526 ] , whose territorial claim in the oil-rich area dated back to colonial times and extended as far as the Peruvian town of Iquitos . |
| 30 | Belorussia , in these new circumstances , began to raise territorial claims against Lithuania , which extended as far as the Lithuanian capital Vilnius . |