Example sentences of "of the [noun] [adv] far as " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 It is therefore important to emphasize that the primary visual cortex is not the end of the road as far as the analysis of visual input is concerned .
3 Fourth , with the likely acquisition of nuclear weapons by at least some additional states in the next few decades , the need for some clear rules of the road so far as nuclear weapons are concerned may actually increase .
4 The Leonard Arthur case was the tip of the iceberg as far as I was concerned . ’
5 does n't work out the right way , but that must be just the tip of the iceberg as far as you 're concerned .
6 And yet if he were to look further afield , if he followed the curve of the river as far as he was able to see , he knew that in turn , it would run smoothly into the sea .
7 After the break he resumed work and continued until two-thirty in the afternoon when it was the end of the day as far as the horses were concerned .
8 It is the most important meeting of the year so far as the organisation of the council is concerned .
9 ( b ) On the other hand the courts will not carry a literal construction of the articles so far as to defeat their obvious purpose .
10 Now , erm , yes , I 'd like to pick up a comment made by the Director , erm , he said quite rightly that the prevention factor is really out of the window as far as the budget is concerned , and pro as far as operations are concerned .
11 Counsel for the defenders submitted essentially that the Lord Ordinary had erred in law in concluding that the declaration in the application form was part of a contract between the pursuers and the Alliance Building Society to which the provisions of the act applied , rather than concluding that the declaration was non-contractual in character and accordingly not caught by the provisions of the act so far as applicable to Scotland .
12 the westgate with part of the wall as far as particular upright stone in the said wall , between the said gates and the standing stile and steps belongs to Chew Stoke and is repaired by the parishioners thereof ; the other part home to the poor house is repaired by the parish of Chew Magna ; the east side is repaired and half of the wall and stile by the parish of Stowey ; the other by the parish of Norton …
13 That was the principle of the Yasa so far as the practical application of scientific knowledge was concerned .
14 The Department of the Environment ( DoE , the central government department with overall responsibility for local government in England ) was , he says , trapped into the position of being both the advocate of local services within the centre and the guardian of the purse-strings as far as local government was concerned ( in that respect the Secretary of State acted as a sort of ‘ mini chancellor ’ ) ( Rhodes , 1986 , p. 238 ) .
15 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 .
16 Money Expect to be challenged and opposed every step of the way as far as your long-term financial plans are concerned , but do n't give up .
17 Your worships , er , there 's nothing at all more sinister in the failure to stop and failure to report than than that , i th that is a a true record of the er er er of the incident as far as Mrs was concerned erm and it is something which erm comes about an accident which came about probably through the inexperience of the children er , running across the pedestrian crossing thinking that they have priority erm and not having regard to other road users er , and Mrs was travelling at slow speed but it was she was put in a difficult position by the the way in which the children ran across the road .
18 The final four columns of Table 11.1 give details of the financial position of the companies as far as this could be discerned from published data .
19 This makes little difference to the behaviour of the companies so far as the production of policies and their conduct of business are concerned , but it does impose further constraints on the marketing of what are now clearly seen as forms of saving .
20 because the verderers … and … the Steward of the Forest made no mention in their rolls of the name of the said page , nor of his delivery , nor of his escape , and the business of the King so far as it relates to the said boy is entirely undone , therefore they are in mercy .
21 The mosaic extends the length of the nave as far as the presbytery , into the apse , and down the two arms of the transept and survives as a visual encyclopedia of the medieval mind .
22 She adds that the Faculty 's proposed grandfathering clause watered down the value of the qualification as far as the new examination entrant is concerned .
23 Lawyers are adamant about the need to remain independent of the state so far as licensing for practice is concerned .
24 Comparable buildings are also visible from the air north of the defences as far as the River Nene , apart from the low-lying Billing Brook area .
25 Thirdly , what is the thrust of the complaint as far as the books are concerned ?
26 Moreover , even at common law a lease which ought to be made by deed but is not will not completely fail of effect , if possession is taken and rent paid under it ; the tenant will be treated as tenant from year to year upon the terms of the lease so far as they are applicable to such a tenancy .
27 . The main story of the morning as far as our news bulletins are concerned .
28 Secondly , if the tenant is entitled to break at a specified date linked to a rent review , the effect of the break-clause may be to make time of the essence as far as the review is concerned ( United Scientific Holdings Ltd v Burnley Borough Council [ 1977 ] 2 All ER 62 at 77 , 98 ) .
29 Sheriff Brian Lockhart , who is presiding over the fatal accident inquiry , asked whether the Newton plans , referred to throughout five weeks of the inquiry so far as ‘ single lead ’ had not been considered to be so at the time .
30 This highlights the significance of the debate as far as equity valuation is concerned .
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