Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] as [adv] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As far emerging technologies go , Rothstein says although the Open Software Foundation 's Distributed Computing Environment may well become part of a common distributed infrastructure , he claims it is still on a very low level as far as developers are concerned . |
| 2 | This unfortunate crusade was not a total loss as far as Barbarossa was concerned , for it set the political and feudal scene for his election as Emperor within a short time of his return to Germany . |
| 3 | As Professor S.F. Bush said in The Times ( 7 October 1991 ) , it was the commercial banks not the Bank of England which generated the credit explosion in 1987–89 : ‘ A central bank , whether independent or not , is an almost total irrelevance as far as inflation is concerned in a world dominated by thousands of different monetary agencies switching assets and liabilities across the world at the touch of a button . ’ |
| 4 | It has been reported for example that the UK has been identified as the main European culprit as far as sulphur emissions and the killing of Norway and Sweden 's lakes is concerned , yet the UK 's sulphur emissions have been in decline since 1970 while acidification has not . |
| 5 | On the passage home we retraced our outward course as far as Kyle of Localsh , and from there threaded our way into the Sound of Raasay via Caol Mor to spend the night at Portree . |
| 6 | What is needed now is a new spirit of political leadership in Ireland , able to respond to the changing social mood as effectively as Charles Haughey 's government has responded since 1987 to the changing economy . |
| 7 | It is truly said that he can go to bed at night with a clear sky as far as Home Affairs are concerned and wake up the next morning with a major crisis on his hands . |
| 8 | Hans Tietmayer , then Deputy President Elect of the Bundesbank , put it this way as early as June 1991 : ‘ A single currency requires a single bank which must be matched by a single government and a single state . ’ |
| 9 | It 's a meatless century as far as prisoners are concerned . ’ |
| 10 | From the Palgrave Cross at the top of Church Hill we continue down the High Street as far as Belmont — the centre of dissent — on the left . |
| 11 | Tony O'Reilly , who has scored a try or two in his time around the world , is the motivating force as far as Heinz and the Independent are concerned , and Guinness , of course , are the ever-present force in Irish sporting events . |
| 12 | Every culture in Britain at the moment has a similar philosophy as far as size goes : if you want to look good , be desirable , you 've got to be thin . |
| 13 | Mahogany is a very warm wood as far as tone is concerned , but this body is so thin that the result is quite bright and snappy — great for jazz/fusion rhythm sounds and a perfect foil for sound processing . |
| 14 | So I bus-hopped into the City and took the Central Line as far as Bond Street . |
| 15 | The operation of trolleys and pantographs together was not without its problems , and it was said that the great used on the collector plates could be found on the overhead line as far as Lytham ! |
| 16 | Jim said : ‘ We had to tackle the traditionally bad image of train catering and we really have come a tremendous way as far as quality is concerned . |
| 17 | Thus , both radicals and élitists have severely shaken the early certainty about the worthwhileness of attempts to disseminate liberal culture as widely as teachers ' skills and school conditions permitted . |
| 18 | A fourth Tory term would mean a fourth Tory recession as surely as night follows day . |
| 19 | The other part is Jackie , to whom going round that tight course as fast as Elf 's insurance would allow him to is a mere nothing . |
| 20 | This is another interesting theoretical point , but probably of little consequence as far as error correction is concerned . |
| 21 | What instrumental techniques can not do is evaluate the sensory attributes of an odour , in particular its acceptability , nor can they compete with the human nose as far as sensitivity to most odours is concerned . |
| 22 | And there 's the rub : each dimension requires a differing approach as far as construction is concerned . |
| 23 | Quality , of design and typography rather than editorial matter , is a burning issue as far as desktop publishing is concerned . |
| 24 | In addition , it is not clear that pesticides will travel through the unsaturated zone as readily as nitrate does — they may , for example , be adsorbed by clays . |
| 25 | Why is it that in some societies like our own the three stages of childhood development are clearly distinguishable and of great importance as far as personality formation is concerned , whereas in other societies this is much less true , and one or two stages seem to be almost absent altogether ? |
| 26 | I think sometimes it would be better to call it cobra because it does seem to have a very er er deadly sting as far as Lincolnshire 's concerned at the moment . |
| 27 | Italy is a black hole as far as regulations are concerned ; they disappear without trace . |
| 28 | And so whilst we were conscious of the fact that erm management were pursuing this policy to introduce the new system , we were just as conscious that we were going to protect our members er and have prior consultation , and that 's the operative and effective word as far as shop stewards are concerned , to have prior consultation , before anybody accepted going on to the scheme . |
| 29 | You are a right crafty bastard as far as women are concerned . ’ |
| 30 | The book describes it thus : ‘ A good road as far as Whitfield Inn , but Staward Bank doubles back on itself three times and makes some dangerously sharp turns . |