Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] far [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The function of a library service is to provide so far as resources allow , all books , periodicals , etc. , other than the trivial , in which its readers claim legitimate interest . |
| 2 | On the same day , the mascaret , a river-bore which had been known to reach as far as Paris , was sweeping up the Seine . |
| 3 | The Society 's Vice-Chairman was joining us to walk as far as Horderley ( but then had to leave us ) . |
| 4 | We 'd only have to walk as far as Bingley . |
| 5 | I decided to walk as far as Bellanoch where a friend would pick me up for that weakening hospitality again - a dear old Sister Brush who shames me with her eighty-year-old energy , integrity and artistic confidence . |
| 6 | Although , long before Johnson , Daniel Defoe found Elgin ‘ a very agreeable place to live in ’ — those gentry not wishing to venture as far as Edinburgh or London came in from the Highlands for the winter — Elgin 's time came later : a half-century after our heroes ' visit , it became a little classical Victorian market town whose streets and suburbs echoed Edinburgh 's New Town in elegance and spaciousness . |
| 7 | Sylvia Pedder sometimes has to go as far as Cumbria to see her relatives . |
| 8 | Medical supplies are going in from this country not only to help Moscow and St. Petersburg , but to go as far as Ekaterinburg , Tymen , Novokuznetsk , the Kiev oblast , the Donetsk oblast , and further afield . |
| 9 | When I moved to the Western Isles of Scotland I found I had no need to go as far as Norway for my Elysian coast ; there were mountains and sea in plenty right at my doorstep . |
| 10 | The other one never used to , the other one used to get as far as Ken 's house and fail . |
| 11 | But they did manage to get as far as Wales , where the foothills of Snowdonia passed for the Karakoram mountains . |
| 12 | The police are n't telling us anything — I have n't been able to get as far as Marshall and the others just look mysterious and say they do n't know . ’ |
| 13 | The Hungarians and Belgians broke away from the Italians and the two British crews dropped back and were being closely tailed by Folkesson/Skoldbek at Chertsey although the Swedish crew were only to get as far as Shepperton before blowing up . |
| 14 | However , this must have been countered by an urgent request from Butcher as two days later Miller sent his servant with a note , agreeing to meet at Bedford House by four o'clock in order to get as far as St Albans that evening . |
| 15 | The Sunshine Girls were the only troupe to travel as far as St Petersburg and Budapest but it was noticeable that they rarely worked at the Winter Gardens which was Jennie 's stronghold . |
| 16 | The track now survives and is quite easy to follow as far as Cemmaes . |