Example sentences of "the [noun sg] and [adv] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | Starkey said yesterday that he knew nothing of the move and as far as he was concerned he was still on Cacoethes . |
| 2 | ‘ And the Guinea Coast afore that ? ’ she prompted , hoping for tales about unknown Africa that seemed to her as strange as the moon and as far away . |
| 3 | Macaulay found The Prelude ‘ to the last degree Jacobinical , indeed Socialist ’ : the linking of words that look far back into the past and equally far forward into the future shows that from the point of view of the Whig benches at any rate , Wordsworth 's politics were lamentably consistent . |
| 4 | And we were we covered sixteen different MPs which is especially good news because Hugh Bailey normally supports the bill and as far as we know is likely to turn up and and vote for it . |
| 5 | What part the laity could play in the Church and how far they felt alienated is for discussion later . |
| 6 | It 's in the case of how we police students that the question about where we draw the line and how far we become engaged are most problematic , I think , and it 's in that case really that I 'm proposing this distinction . |
| 7 | I think it would affect their marriages , their inter-personal relationships , their co-habitations , the way that they deal with people at work , their sense of who they are in the world and how far they can go in the world , and I think that 's what makes the problem so serious because it has very , very long-reaching effects . |
| 8 | Universities there have started teaching the subject in English in an attempt to attract students from all over the world and so far they appear to be succeeding . |
| 9 | Another remote country church , near the sea and not far from Turku is that of Inkoo . |
| 10 | There were archers from all parts of the country , from the north and as far south as Hampshire . |
| 11 | The best came from Zibello , a village near the po and not far from Fontanellato . |