Example sentences of "and [adv] [adv] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | In The Origin , and already as far back as The German Ideology , Marx and Engels followed their contemporaries in believing that the history of mankind usually went through the same sequence of technological improvement . |
| 2 | For the individualist , the central task is to understand individuals as agents , and thus as far as possible to understand the social world as the outcome of options and choices taken and made by particular actors . |
| 3 | I have sometimes gone into it when the King was absent from Delhi and once pretty far I thought , for the purpose of giving my advice in the case of a great lady so ill that she could not be moved to the outward gate ; but a Kachemire shawl covered my head , hanging like a large scarfe down to my feet , and a eunuch led me by the hand , as if I had been a blind man . |
| 4 | The apparent extension of the effects of the collision of the Indian and Eurasian Plates to much of central and eastern Asia , and possibly as far as the Baikal Rift ( Fig. 3.21 ) , in fact indicates that the consequences of plate interaction need not necessarily be confined to plate margins . |
| 5 | As a result , in the nineteenth century a national region which could fairly be called Yakutia extended over 1,6000 kilometres from the Vilyui river to the Kolyma and nearly as far from the middle Lena to the shores of the Arctic Ocean . |
| 6 | It had come half way up the bunk , and nearly as far as Willis 's blankets . |
| 7 | Play the harlot ( 1 ) : they did so literally and also as far as religion was concerned . |
| 8 | I want at the end erm , Chairman to give you my views of what is meant by er , an integrated and balanced community because I think that 's that 's quite important , but before I do that , I 'd like to mop up one or two er points right at the end in response to some of the contributions that have been made , and I 'll deal with them , Wincup , Curtis , Brook , er and Thomas , if that 's acceptable er to you , and really as far as Mr Wincup is concerned , he 's quite properly raised the issue of procedural issues about how the Greater York authorities is going to address moving towards er an agreed location , and quite clearly I 've got to reaffirm again that the County Council will want to look at both the greenbelt local plan report and your panel report before er it moves erm er forward or looks at any conclusions it may be moving to in the light of those er in the light of those reports , and quite clearly , as we all know , there are a number of options . |
| 9 | It reveals how close U2 can come to being a straightforward rock group — one of those ! — and simultaneously how far they can move away from that . |
| 10 | There is nothing constitutionally mandatory about any such particular structure but , both in existing legislation and particularly so far as internal civil service organisation is concerned , such a structure is assumed and there are heavy administrative costs involved in change . |
| 11 | The charred remains of many books fell near his home and even as far away as Windsor . |
| 12 | I began to use the mornings of those days when I was on evening watch for these little excursions , and covered quite a bit of territory — Leighton Buzzard , High Wycombe , Buckingham , Dunstable , Newport Pagnell , Woburn , Banbury , Northampton , Aylesbury , Bedford , and even as far as Whipsnade and the Chiltern Hills . |
| 13 | So strong is the activity in these discharges that it can still be measured in the sea right down the western coast of Britain , northwards round the top of Scotland , and even as far away as Scandinavia . |
| 14 | She nagged him northwards to the Peace River district , to establish garages there , and even as far as Fort McMurray , with instructions to buy land for future service stations . |
| 15 | Other communities of vici acting as corporate bodies are attested by inscriptions from Housesteads , Chesterholm and even as far north as Carriden on the Antonine Wall . |
| 16 | And even as far back as the second century , Britannia graced the back of their coins . |
| 17 | And even as far back as the second century , Britannia graced the back of their coins . |
| 18 | ‘ We have enthusiasts travelling from America , France and even as far as Australia , ’ said local association member Robert Lamrock from Belfast . |
| 19 | Colleagues , just to try and let you know what , er I 've got in my mind concerning the business that 's fell off the agenda yesterday and today so far . |
| 20 | It was often difficult , for the experimenter , to judge the exact position of the target in relation to the metre rule and precisely how far the subject 's finger was from the target . |
| 21 | You will be out on exercise , sometimes in the UK , and sometimes as far afield as Norway , Cyprus or the Falkland Islands where you will learn what cooking in rugged conditions really means . |
| 22 | Not easy for us , was what she 'd been warning me , being so near and yet so far , so tantalizingly inaccessible to each other . |
| 23 | What did he do after being so close and yet so far ? |
| 24 | It was n't just the defeat , how near and yet so far away . |
| 25 | So an extra place was laid , and Jennifer allowed to sit between Jill and Nathan , with Matthew pulling faces to amuse her from across the table and Tristram in a flame of embarrassment at having her so near and yet so far . |
| 26 | So near and yet so far . |
| 27 | By now Dr Neil was in an agony of desire , the loved one in his arms , so near and yet so far — But not so far as he thought , for McAllister suddenly wanted more from him than he was giving . |
| 28 | Brian Roper 's unsuccessful spot kick perpetuated the agony for the Donegal boys who had once again come so near and yet so far , losing their third final in a row . |
| 29 | SO NEAR AND YET SO FAR ! |
| 30 | Although the image of the Trinity is distorted , its powers are not destroyed and this is the activity of God in the soul — the ability to understand what could be , and to desire it : But it is a question of " so near and yet so far " as Hilton adds that man is not near Christ or in him until he has actually found him . |