Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [noun] as far [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The owner , a bachelor in his fifties , slept on a camp-bed in the vestibule of the hostel and cooked on a two ring stove in the courtyard , mostly a kind of vegetable stew as far as I could make out . |
| 2 | There is a narrow road from the coast along the north side of Loch Morar as far as the little settlement of Bracorina and , from here , an easy climb to the crest of the ridge behind reveals a superlative view of Loch Nevis and Loch Morar , which are now little more than a mile apart . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Further to my letter of 23rd May and our telephone conversation yesterday it now seems that most of the verges and hedge-bottoms in the Scorton area have been trimmed EXCEPT for the section of Station Lane from opposite Brook Avenue as far as the railway bridge . |
| 5 | A company is the most flexible form of business enterprise as far as expansion is concerned . |
| 6 | In linguistics , especially in the English-speaking world between the 1930s and 1960s , there have been several schools of thought which believe that context — this knowledge of the world outside language which we use to interpret it — should be ruled out of language analysis as far as possible . |
| 7 | Throughout my time as Chairman I was anxious to co-operate with Mr Baker as far as possible , for I feared I might be asked to resign . |
| 8 | Alternatively , policy-making elites may choose to co-opt organized interest groups into compliance with government policies as far as possible by creating sham ‘ corporatist ’ institutions and ideologies . |
| 9 | " We can go up under Wandsworth Bridge as far as the Fina Oil Depot and then switch off and drift down with the tide . " |
| 10 | Eight cars were provided by each undertaking and gave a five-minute service from West Croydon as far as the ‘ Robin Hood ’ . |
| 11 | At the recent meeting of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council attention was drawn to the overgrown state of the footway on Station Lane Scorton on the section from the entrance to Brook Avenue as far as the railway bridge . |
| 12 | I mean they do n't feel that way about quantum theory as far as I know . |
| 13 | 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 ] . |
| 14 | The photons in question follow radial paths for which the time elapsed between emission and detection is where the probe is at radius r and the observer at radius R. As far as the observer is concerned the arrival time T is measured relative to some fixed event , which can be the departure of the probe . |
| 15 | From this source they spread by exchange networks as far as north Poland and the Ile-de-France over a radius as the crow flies of more than 1700 km . |
| 16 | The old man said they were love songs he had written when young , but they seemed to be by Robert Burns as far as Nigel could remember . |