Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] far [conj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Windows was the environment of choice — the DOS version works identically as far as the mechanics are concerned , except that pretty Windows graphics are replaced by character based displays . |
| 2 | They got only as far as the gate of Cell Block 6B . |
| 3 | Perhaps the notice could be altered to indicate that the path leads only as far as the river . |
| 4 | Whilst most modern witch covens can be traced back only as far as the revival stimulated by Gerald Gardner and the repeal of the Witchcraft Acts in the 1950s , there still exist traditional covens which date back much further . |
| 5 | The tendency to see only as far as the limit of particular function . |
| 6 | The French government acceded to her request that she be buried at Malmaison , but her son was permitted to accompany the funeral only as far as the frontier between France and Switzerland . |
| 7 | Then he strode away — but only as far as the corner of the hearing room , temporarily out of range of the television cameras . |
| 8 | Once or twice they walked together as far as the river . |
| 9 | Murray and Ramsay rode together as far as the ford at Sunlaws , a wooded terrain of bluffs and hillocks , another Heiton peel-tower and the riverside mill . |
| 10 | Magnificent Karnak , with its corridors of stone rams , sky-embracing pillars and gigantic inscrutable statues , stretching apparently as far as the eye can see , is breathtaking . |
| 11 | But we do n't as a regular thing do much as far as the public is concerned but what we do do is training for tropical foresters , and during the summer vac . |
| 12 | Damon could copy anyone 's handwriting and had been told by their class teacher , in a burst of anger , that he would go far , perhaps as far as the Scrubs for forgery . |
| 13 | Latvian tombs , hoards of treasure found in Estonia , jewellery , statuettes and household articles discovered in Poland , together with objects from the Byzantine and Islamic worlds illustrate how this people of warriors and merchants expanded eastward as far as the Caliphate of Baghdad , while excavations in ‘ Norman ’ territory ( at Downham in Norfolk and in the vicinity of Rouen ) provide proof of Norse expansionism in another direction . |
| 14 | The grassy countryside was flat on either side , stretching away as far as the eye could see . |
| 15 | The apparent extension of the effects of the collision of the Indian and Eurasian Plates to much of central and eastern Asia , and possibly as far as the Baikal Rift ( Fig. 3.21 ) , in fact indicates that the consequences of plate interaction need not necessarily be confined to plate margins . |
| 16 | Concern was expressed with the results of this free-for-all policy , both as far as the number of solicitors from large firms was concerned and in respect of the quality of advocacy : |
| 17 | I would not have done it any differently as far as the involvement of GM and Lotus . ’ |
| 18 | I would not have done it any differently as far as the involvement of GM and Lotus . |
| 19 | And even beyond would be snowbound , perhaps right as far as the sea . |
| 20 | The French writer Hippolyte Taine , in the not on the whole very friendly account he published of a journey to the Pyrenees in the middle of the last century , tells , all too vividly , an unpleasant story of a fourteenth-century mayor of Bayonne who tried to extend his jurisdiction up-river as far as the tide went , so as to stop Basque smugglers from defrauding him , and who tied a number of local Basque gentry to the arches of a bridge and watched the tide come up and slowly drown them . |
| 21 | Not that all these concerns about pedigree matter a damn as far as the music is concerned — it 's jus tot give your ears a clue as to what to expect . |
| 22 | ‘ He never told me that he was going to do a newspaper article and I just wonder where this leaves Jason and his legal advisers now as far as an appeal goes . ’ |
| 23 | Even so far as the Regulation is concerned , which may be operational in less than three months , several questions remain open . |
| 24 | This remedy may come in if there are any ill effects after a head injury , even as far as a change in personality but expert assistance should be sought in such cases . |
| 25 | They make the 2600 kilometre trip regularly , transporting the GSi Astras from their base near Dungannon to GM Spain 's headquarters in Madrid and on to events throughout the country — even as far as the Canary Islands . |
| 26 | In a brief period of energetic expansion , Samuilo enlarged his empire , from its centre in the Prespa/Ohrid area , so that by the end of the century it extended from the Black Sea to the Adriatic and into Greece , even as far as the Peleponnesus , although the Aegean port of Salonika successfully resisted his attempts to occupy it . |
| 27 | ‘ I want some continuity in the squad , going down even as far as the schoolboy grade ’ . |
| 28 | The months after the initial furore over the Report 's publication were fairly quiet , particularly as far as the possibilities of legislation on the matter were concerned . |
| 29 | ‘ Until the day after tomorrow as far as the fireworks are concerned . |
| 30 | Finally , some insects are also capable of backward flight by shifting the plane of vibration , sometimes so far that the wings actually move upwards on the " downbeat " ( Fig. 38 ) . |