Example sentences of "reach as far as " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the same day , the mascaret , a river-bore which had been known to reach as far as Paris , was sweeping up the Seine . |
| 2 | Most of the other 10 queens are on European thrones , but the thin blue-blooded line reaches as far as Queen Aishwarya of Nepal , and Queen Mata-aho of Tonga . |
| 3 | On particularly clear days ( the locals will tell you that midwinter provides the best of them ) the view reaches as far as the Vosges in France and Switzerland 's Jura . |
| 4 | The film capital is a huge sprawling city which seems to stretch indefinitely in all directions ; they even said that the outskirts of Los Angeles reached as far as San Francisco ! |
| 5 | When they launched themselves into the dusk they seemed to fill the sky to the north for long minutes , and their cries reached as far as the village . |
| 6 | In some species these trailing threads , full of stinging-cells called nematocysts , can reach as far as 50 feet . |
| 7 | The light of the lamp did not reach as far as the high ceiling , and the fire had burned low . |
| 8 | We shall instead suggest ( 40 ) , where the fact that the arrowhead passes through the square bracket is intended to show that the minor property does not simply qualify the entity as a whole , but the fact that it does not reach as far as the round bracket shows that the adjective is not a sense-qualifier : ( 40 ) |
| 9 | Also train on the punch bag , aiming your kicks as high as you can and reaching as far as possible . |
| 10 | Indeed it does , and it seems the job can not be left to the mere television reviewer either , for criticism soon leaked from the cultural pages to the overtly political ones , even reaching as far as the editorial sections of some newspapers . |
| 11 | We sampled the delights of hymns old and new , in alphabetical order , only reaching as far as J , for Jesus . |
| 12 | Much that he says about divisions in the human psyche is reflected in pale form in the Hindu sacred books of the Upanishads ( which is hardly surprising , since White Face claims that all the world 's knowledge of itself emanated from the ‘ Other Side ’ during the ice age before last , when Other Siders went out like missionaries over the globe , reaching as far as Hindustan ) . |
| 13 | Western ports did play a part in shipping corn to London , in some years at least , the capital 's swallow reaching as far as Exeter and beyond to Cornwall . |
| 14 | The little manor-house at Cadhay stands near at hand in the Ottery meadows , and more distant views reach as far as the great hill-fort at Hembury , built on a commanding spur of land in the late Iron Age . |
| 15 | But reach as far as you can . |