Example sentences of "[adv] as far as the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They got only as far as the gate of Cell Block 6B . |
| 2 | Perhaps the notice could be altered to indicate that the path leads only as far as the river . |
| 3 | Whilst most modern witch covens can be traced back only as far as the revival stimulated by Gerald Gardner and the repeal of the Witchcraft Acts in the 1950s , there still exist traditional covens which date back much further . |
| 4 | The tendency to see only as far as the limit of particular function . |
| 5 | The French government acceded to her request that she be buried at Malmaison , but her son was permitted to accompany the funeral only as far as the frontier between France and Switzerland . |
| 6 | Then he strode away — but only as far as the corner of the hearing room , temporarily out of range of the television cameras . |
| 7 | Once or twice they walked together as far as the river . |
| 8 | Murray and Ramsay rode together as far as the ford at Sunlaws , a wooded terrain of bluffs and hillocks , another Heiton peel-tower and the riverside mill . |
| 9 | Magnificent Karnak , with its corridors of stone rams , sky-embracing pillars and gigantic inscrutable statues , stretching apparently as far as the eye can see , is breathtaking . |
| 10 | But we do n't as a regular thing do much as far as the public is concerned but what we do do is training for tropical foresters , and during the summer vac . |
| 11 | He left her at her door ; they had not gone down as far as the Green that day . |
| 12 | Tendrils of Virginia creeper crept down as far as the window-frame , and progressed on little circular suckers across the glass , at huge vegetable speed . |
| 13 | He told Sharpe his patrol was one of the many that daily scouted south to the French border and beyond ; this particular troop had been ordered to explore the villages south and east of Mons down as far as the Sambre , but not to encroach on Prussian territory . |
| 14 | Or only down as far as the moment when the Tiber is hurled back violently from the Etruscan shore ? |
| 15 | The combination of the skin 's reaction and the effects of the digestive process results in the formation around the mite 's mouthparts of a tube — an eschar — surrounded by scar-tissue and pigmentation which goes down as far as the germination layer of the skin . |
| 16 | Latvian tombs , hoards of treasure found in Estonia , jewellery , statuettes and household articles discovered in Poland , together with objects from the Byzantine and Islamic worlds illustrate how this people of warriors and merchants expanded eastward as far as the Caliphate of Baghdad , while excavations in ‘ Norman ’ territory ( at Downham in Norfolk and in the vicinity of Rouen ) provide proof of Norse expansionism in another direction . |
| 17 | Not as far as the insurance company are concerned . |
| 18 | At least , not as far as the sailing was concerned . |
| 19 | The grassy countryside was flat on either side , stretching away as far as the eye could see . |
| 20 | if he had been chasing his flying tent up from the machair on the west of the island , he might have got up as far as the bogland near the lochan , but surely the light from my cottage would not be visible until he had followed the road downhill past the curve and almost into Otters ' Bay . |
| 21 | He marked in the cabin , the quarry , and the track up as far as the cabin and back down through the dip to the fork . |
| 22 | Saddam 's War takes us up as far as the back-end of last year , but the core of the book is concerned with Saddam 's rise to power and his success in surviving the Iran-Iraq War and turning Iraq into the most heavily armed state in the Arab world . |
| 23 | It said , ‘ Bring these men up as far as the penthouse , no further . |
| 24 | Gazzer wasted twenty minutes on the sea front waiting for a bus to take him up as far as the Leisure Centre . |
| 25 | Concern was expressed with the results of this free-for-all policy , both as far as the number of solicitors from large firms was concerned and in respect of the quality of advocacy : |
| 26 | I would not have done it any differently as far as the involvement of GM and Lotus . ’ |
| 27 | I would not have done it any differently as far as the involvement of GM and Lotus . |
| 28 | And even beyond would be snowbound , perhaps right as far as the sea . |
| 29 | They clattered on as far as the door ; under workbenches , into cracks , finding every obscure corner . |
| 30 | The French writer Hippolyte Taine , in the not on the whole very friendly account he published of a journey to the Pyrenees in the middle of the last century , tells , all too vividly , an unpleasant story of a fourteenth-century mayor of Bayonne who tried to extend his jurisdiction up-river as far as the tide went , so as to stop Basque smugglers from defrauding him , and who tied a number of local Basque gentry to the arches of a bridge and watched the tide come up and slowly drown them . |