Example sentences of "have [vb pp] as far [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thank you Mr Mayor I just wanted t to come in with two fairly quick points er as to why I will not be able to support this amendment , but the first is that the leader of the council has indicated that the efficiency savings erm has got as far as it can go and that , you know , we have been trimming at the margins and there is no more margin left and that leads you to believe that perhaps one should be looking at somewhat more er root and branch type of pruning in the spending that that the labour group want to actually erm deal with , er and the second point I would like to make , and er I thank councillor for giving us a a a a new word tonight obfuscation because that describes exactly what I think the labour group are trying to do by bringing this figure down it removes the embarrassment they would have from having to add on a substantial sum of money f due to the failure to collect the cou er the community charge in previous years and I think that they are trying by by this amendment with some very quick foot work to try and delude the people of this city . |
| 2 | As the years unfold , the penny will drop in the general council of the CBI , as much as on the commuter trains from Basildon , that the whole market-based experiment has gone as far as it can — and the new need is for a government and policies that actively manage the instability and short-termism of the British economy . |
| 3 | In reaching 24 processor configurations , Pyramid says it has gone as far as it can with the R3000 . |
| 4 | These may stem from hormonal changes in the woman , from social pressures , from changes in marital or parental role , from career considerations ( especially in the man , who may realise that , at this stage of life , he has gone as far as he is likely to go ) and/or from other causes . |
| 5 | Managers in their late forties begin to see that they are no longer the up-and-coming stars — indeed they may have come as far as they are going to go . |
| 6 | but , er , I do n't think they 've got as far as yours have |
| 7 | He advanced on Nick who had retreated as far as he could . |
| 8 | She had driven as far as she could and now stopped the car . |
| 9 | ‘ I feel that I 've gone as far as I can here , ’ Knowles said . |
| 10 | ‘ I think I 've gone as far as I can with it , ’ said Tony . |
| 11 | By the beginning of this century , however , the towers had gone as far as they could go . |
| 12 | I put it to Andy that it must have been a blow when they split in 1988 , but he , ever the voice of reason , says , ‘ There was no point in trying to keep them together , it had gone as far as they wanted it to go and they wanted to do something different . |
| 13 | Duncan looked at Myeloski ; they had gone as far as they could with the air-traffic controller . |
| 14 | The British opinion , for what it was worth , was that by no stretch of the imagination was Bao Dai 's régime in de facto control ( they also warned the Americans that Schuman would claim that the French had gone as far as they could in Vietnam without creating trouble in French North Africa ) . |
| 15 | He felt he had gone as far as he could in the company and learned as much as he was likely to . |
| 16 | He had gone as far as he could go . |
| 17 | JUST when you thought frilly knicker and bra design had gone as far as it could , Sherwood Group is set to go further . |
| 18 | The whole three-hour operation was painless but tedious , and I dozed off when the thin white line had progressed as far as my X-rayed knees on the screen in front of me . |
| 19 | They had spread as far as he could see , grown up to the ceiling and broken through it . |
| 20 | Furthermore , some branches of physical geography had proceeded as far as they could without an enhanced knowledge of processes . |
| 21 | The Principal wrote in November 1967 that the only recourse was ‘ to ensure that every possible safeguard should be written into the constitution of such a scheme ’ , and following local negotiations he considered that ‘ we have gone as far as we are able so far to safeguard the courses and attitudes of this College and we have confidence that the LEA are making every effort to ensure that Diploma in Art and Design ( DipAD ) courses and developments will be given the fullest support , and will not be undermined in any way by the Polytechnic proposals ’ . |