Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [noun prp] as far [conj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 Eight cars were provided by each undertaking and gave a five-minute service from West Croydon as far as the ‘ Robin Hood ’ .
6 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 .
7 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 ] .
8 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 .
9 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 .
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