Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] as far [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | Jadeite objects have been recovered over a territory extending from Brittany to the Rhineland as well as over the British Isles as far north as north-east Scotland , far beyond the known sources of the raw material in Piedmont and Switzerland . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | I myself was lucky enough last week to see a fine sample of the Lesser Twayblade and another of the Small White Orchid , rare occurrences as far south as this and in these times . |
4 | 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 . ’ |
5 | 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 . |