Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] far [conj] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The more southerly route lay across a gap in the Urals to the Irtysh and thence , after the Tatar khanate had been defeated , up the middle Ob and its tributaries , such as the Ket , to where a portage led to the middle reaches of the Yenisei ; from here they ascended the Upper ( or ‘ Stony ’ ) Tunguska as far as the Ilim , and so either by portage to the Lena or up the Angara towards Lake Baikal . |
| 2 | The route was to proceed along Thicket Road and Beckenham Road as far as the Penge/Beckenham boundary . |
| 3 | Roughly speaking , the parts of England most affected by this type of planning form a great belt which sweeps round from Flamborough Head on the Yorkshire coast , down through the Midlands as far as the Dorset coast , and thence north-eastwards along the chalk uplands to the Norfolk coast . |
| 4 | Last time round they went to south east Asia , trekked in Nepal as far as the Everest base camp , saw Thailand and China then came back on the Trans-Siberian Railway . |
| 5 | In the year A.D. 43 , Emperor Claudius sent an army under Aulus Plautius , who quickly subdued Kent as far as the Medway where again the British forces gathered to oppose the Romans . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 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 ] . |