Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] as [adv] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Symons was , as a matter of fact , a frequent visitor to this house before the war ; indeed , she was among the most popular as far as the staff were concerned due to the kind appreciation she never shied from showing . |
| 2 | It was this very situation — one where the workers themselves could take control of the struggle , organise and demand on their own behalf — which was not acceptable as far as the trade union bureaucracy and leadership were concerned . |
| 3 | Defeat was followed by a yet greater humiliation : Spain 's loss of the final remnants — Cuba , Puerto Rico and the Philippines — of a vast overseas empire , conquered during the sixteenth century and still intact as late as the early nineteenth . |
| 4 | Will these families be more symmetrical as far as the allocation of unpaid work is concerned ? |
| 5 | Later , during the 1960s , Academician M. Tikhomirov proposed setting up a commission to locate the library , and some of its expeditions were still active as late as the 1970s . |
| 6 | ‘ Allowing for the recovery period is also important as far as the next cooking cycle is concerned . |
| 7 | The thesis of ‘ The intentional fallacy ’ , that the meaning of the words in a text is , and should be treated as , a matter of public knowledge , seems wholly unexceptionable as far as the dictionary-definition ( the ‘ denotation ’ ) of words is concerned ; but it seems much more problematic when one takes account of the broader associations that words carry with them ( ‘ connotations ’ ) . |
| 8 | The general social and political advantages of the newly enlarged audiences were obvious but in cultural terms what was really significant as far as the subsequent history of the movies was concerned was that the showmen who made and presented the movies were no longer thinking in terms of a homogeneous or class audience . |
| 9 | The first few days in Bavant were fairly quiet as far as the enemy activity was concerned , with a few mortar bombs coming over from time to time . |
| 10 | Although these matters may not be particularly important as far as the haematological features are concerned , they certainly are with respect to ventilation . |
| 11 | Correct measurement of doors and windows is particularly important as far as the moving of furniture is concerned . |
| 12 | This was particularly evident as far as the young were concerned . |
| 13 | The outward journey was quite uneventful as far as the Wadi Tamit , a steep defile leading down the escarpment on to the coastal plain . |
| 14 | I should say that the current ethos of most departments is relatively left-wing as far as the teaching staff are concerned , but that many of the students hold views considerably further to the right . |
| 15 | It is almost unknown in Africa and Asia , while in the West , from being relatively rare as recently as the 1920s , it has now become the commonest disorder of the large intestine . |
| 16 | This question is almost obsolete as far as the classroom is concerned , since almost all programmes are made in colour and you are likely to lose impact and sometimes visual information by viewing them in black and white . |
| 17 | But we got some of that pressure off right away , and I think it proved very important as far as the way the tournament went from then on . |