Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] far [conj] [noun] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At seven o'clock on a chilly Saturday evening in November , the shroud of darkness enveloping it was a kindness as far as Captain Roddy Simcox was concerned . |
| 2 | ‘ the general impression given by Mr. Morgan 's evidence is that the testator was alert , knew what he was doing , and there was no question of any confusion as far as Mr. Morgan was concerned . |
| 3 | I beat the school 's fastest runner in the 100 metres sprint , breaking the finishing tape just before the other runners manage to leave their starting blocks ; I smash the school long jump record by 15 metres ( give or take a metre ) and I hurl the discus so far that Miss Harrison , the teacher in charge of the event , has to get her battered Mini from the car park to retrieve the discus for the next competitor ( who manages a measly 25cm ) . |
| 4 | Blackpool had been keen to develop the Promenade tramway as far as St. Annes , but this was defeated and the blue buses took over . |
| 5 | There 's no hope for a breathing space for the business community as far as Mr Humber is concerned : ‘ We will continue to campaign for the registers to include all sources of contamination , ’ he says grimly , ‘ and we will campaign for not just land liable to be contaminated to be included on the register , but then for that to be backed up by actual investigation of those sites and for that to be put on the registers as well . ’ |
| 6 | This is the clearest evidence so far that Mr Gorbachev is willing to change his government 's plans in order to share authority with the federation council — the first step towards wider talks . |
| 7 | Like father , like daughter in a family linked by art MAKING an exhibition of themselves is an art as far as Mr Roy Hildon and his daughter , Jane , are concerned . |
| 8 | He subsequently set off to explore the county on foot as far as Lands End and his notes show that his book , had it been written , would have contained some far-fetched fantasies — as well as straight inaccuracies . |
| 9 | A single track of the defunct Marton train tram route as far as Kings Square , was kept intact to make this possible , thus making the Train the last tram to run through the Town Centre . |
| 10 | He is now out and as soon as he returns is to accompany Lady Franklin and her party in a vessel round the island as far as Port Davey and Macquarie Harbour , which you may easily see on the map . |
| 11 | From the middle of the nineteenth century , Glasgow 's population rocketed , to make it Britain 's third largest city , and its docks and shipyards stretched westward from the Govan and Clydebank districts towards the estuary as far as Port Glasgow and Greenock ( q.v . ) . |
| 12 | She asks for a lift as far as Stamford Hill . |
| 13 | We proceeded from the old bay at Caraven Arms used by the BC Railway and walked by road to the site of the old Strettford Bridge Junction , where we took to the old track bed as far as Glen Burrell Bridge , where we joined the road again , calling in on the Rev. Ray Arnold at Horderley , who was waiting with coffee and biscuits . |
| 14 | So I bus-hopped into the City and took the Central Line as far as Bond Street . |