Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] far as [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is also worthy of note that East Prussian amber was being traded among hunter-fisher communities over extensive tracts of Finland , the East Baltic countries and north-east Russia as far as Lake Onega and the Upper Volga , as well as up and down the coast of western Norway , at a time when Neolithic farming communities were being established in south Scandinavia . |
| 2 | In each country , politics complicated development , but German interests finally obtained an east-west canal to link Berlin with the Ruhr and by 1905 ships of 2,000 tons could go up the Rhine as far as Mannheim , a very important change since the Ruhr by then needed more than German ore . |
| 3 | Its lands reached from abbeys in Yorkshire as far as Borrowdale and Eskdale , where its sheep runs extended over the fells . |
| 4 | It was quite a crush but the first circuit — left on to Orchard Street and all the way round Selfridges , then Oxford Street as far as Marylebone Lane and then Wigmore again — went off without serious injury . |
| 5 | But the Chinese Muslims are spread throughout the country , from Xinjiang in the north-west right along the Great Wall of China as far as Peking and dotted throughout Ningxia province , including such key cities as Xian , home of the famous terracotta army , where the Chinese-style pavilions of the Great Mosque have been a place of worship for Muslims since the eighth century . |
| 6 | The relatively peaceful and well-governed " home counties " of the Duke of Aquitaine , from Poitiers westwards to the sea at Talmont , then down the coast to Bordeaux and up the valley of the Garonne as far as Agen , comprised an area as large as midland and southeastern England and included some of the most prosperous and commercially developed parts of the whole duchy . |
| 7 | The irony is that within five years , investigations started with a view to relaying part of the canal route to Kilmacolm as far as Paisley for a new passenger service ! |
| 8 | I would not be interested in leaving Middlesbrough until I have got Middlesbrough as far as Middlesbrough can go . ’ |
| 9 | Across Europe , from the war-devastated areas of France and Germany as far as Greece and Italy , from Austria to Hungary , Poland , and Romania , Bischof carried his camera equipment and bundles of warm clothing for those in need , infinitely caring , attentive to all victims , but above all to children . |
| 10 | It must also be borne in mind that in 685 Ecgfrith was able to invade through Strathmore as far as Nechtanesmere ( Dunnichen ) , near Forfar , which will have been in the more northerly kingdom of Circinn ( between the Isla and the Dee ) . |
| 11 | Having been frustrated in her 1988 cruise to Scandinavia , Islander headed north-east once more last summer and this time succeeded in passing through the Limfjord , sailing down the Kattegat and up into the Baltic as far as Stockholm before retracing her steps to visit Copenhagen for the second time on this voyage . |
| 12 | We were scheduled to fly out over East Anglia and the North Sea , crossing the coast of Holland and then on to the Ruhr as far as Cologne , returning over the same route . |
| 13 | Erm , the situation in Shropshire as far as records are concerned is erm , relatively good . |
| 14 | Better , then , to start off down the wrong valley and take the road along the Gave d'Aspe as far as Escot ; you can do this avoiding the main road , because there is a minor road out of Oloron going all the way along the eastern side of the valley as far as Escot . |
| 15 | They also feel there 's one rule for them and another for Redlands as far as planning is concerned . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Football specials still use the GC as far as Wadsley Bridge . |
| 18 | The main , Western tradition began only in about 600BC in Asia Minor and spread to cover most of Europe , the Mediterranean world and Asia as far as India ; a separate Eastern tradition came into being in China in about the sixth century BC . |
| 19 | The distribution of leopards is wide , ranging from South Africa northwards and eastwards through Asia as far as China , and in parts of North Africa and Asia the species is in serious danger of extinction . |
| 20 | Employing crews composed largely of Africans he systematically explored the rivers flowing into the Gulf of Guinea , ascending the Niger as far as Raba , 400 miles from the coast , on more than one occasion . |
| 21 | A versatile and hardy traveller , his earliest journey was to Italy and Sicily , the prelude to an extended and detailed tour of Greece as far as Thessaly . |
| 22 | Later , Burgess was to tell friends that he had only intended to accompany Maclean as far as Prague before returning to London . |
| 23 | Thereafter Anselm gave him such aid as he could against the despoilers of his see among the Norman barons who had recently penetrated into southern Wales as far as Pembroke . |