Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [adv] far as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er Good er concludes that er stock lending is er no different from other aspects of er the market in general er as I understand it , stock lending as far as pension funds concerned , usually works with pension fund has this collection of stocks and shares . |
| 2 | Directly across the channel was another , bigger bay , a long curving stretch of lovely white sand , with above it a sweep of green turf and bracken rising as far as the dark circle of the broch . |
| 3 | The through service to London was interrupted on 10 and 11 September 1940 , by bomb damage outside Croydon , and a shuttle service was provided by Thornton Heath depôt running as far as Norbury Station . |
| 4 | Such conscientious couples even tried to share the child bearing as far as possible . |
| 5 | In a region of high rolling hills , the wall is like a gigantic roller-coaster extending as far as the eye can see to east and west ; Garvine wrote of the wall that it ‘ is built on such a scale that you would think it was the work of Gods rather than men ’ . |
| 6 | But he floated into the midst of a sea of water stretching as far as he could discern on every side around him . |
| 7 | The northern part of the Adriatic coast was under Italian influence , of which the best example is Poreć ( Parenzo ) already described on pp. 116 , 119 ( 202 , 203 ) , while the mountainous central area extending as far as the southern part of the Adriatic coastline contains Serbian Byzantine churches . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | As Carol Dyhouse has pointed out , in concentrating their attention on mothercraft , medical experts tended to devalue women 's knowledge regarding infant care , one doctor going so far as to label grandmothers as ‘ infanticide experts ’ . |
| 10 | Although parts of Sun , such as Sun Federal , have reportedly been flirting with IXI , Sun headquarters has clearly labelled the firm a competitor going so far as to put a last-minute kibosh on a real estate deal that would have moved IXI headquarters in Cambridge , England into Sun UK 's offices as a tenant . |
| 11 | As we watched the train 's shadows turn and fold on the snowy shore , it became clear that she had not forgotten the stories which made this much more than a stark inland sea stretching as far as the eye can follow . |
| 12 | Their request , therefore is that the NBCW provides a regular input expressing as far as is possible , the concerns and views of women in the Church on topics which seem to women to be most crucial or fundamental . |