Example sentences of "[verb] as far as " in BNC.
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| 1 | She fiercely ignored a small internal voice that warned her there was a fat chance of that coming to pass as far as he was concerned . |
| 2 | Can I be clear please I I 'm sorry Mr , can I just be clarif clarified as far as E N V Eleven is concerned , which pond this is in terms of names ? |
| 3 | He was completely satisfied with the explanation ; the lawsuit was to be discontinued as far as he himself was concerned , and he had written to Mr. Jennings asking him to withdraw as well . |
| 4 | Both Soviet and British spheres of influence should be discouraged as far as possible , though it was accepted that such spheres would be among the inescapable facts of contemporary life . |
| 5 | All that matters as far as the law is concerned is , did you buy the goods from a shop ? |
| 6 | That 's all that really matters as far as the law is concerned . |
| 7 | If she meant to make us nervous , she 's succeeded as far as I 'm concerned . |
| 8 | Important though this literature is , the main purpose of later sections is to isolate as far as is generally possible the impact of the government budget on the Lorenz curve that would otherwise have obtained , and then to consider proposals that are more closely tied to the poverty literature . |
| 9 | The tunnel is designed as far as possible to stay within the chalk marl but the alignment is constrained by the geometric requirements of a high speed railway including a minimum horizontal curvature of 4,200m and a maximum gradient of just under 1% . |
| 10 | ‘ I mean , you 're welcome to come as far as I 'm concerned ’ . |
| 11 | They innovated as far as possible under the 1948 Act but eventually secured a further Act , in 1963 , which legitimated ‘ preventive ’ work . |
| 12 | ‘ She said they 'd have plenty of room , and one more was n't any bother as far as she was concerned . ’ |
| 13 | You can have been had by the whole of Fighter Command as far as I 'm concerned ; just as long as you add me to the list . ’ |
| 14 | It is accordingly the main aim of this chapter to indicate as far as possible how The Silmarillion in particular should be read . |
| 15 | She herself was British , in fact , but having spent several years as a graduate student in California , where she had been converted to radical feminism , she now thought of herself as spiritually an American , and tried as far as possible to speak like one . |
| 16 | In our first Report we tried as far as possible to avoid the word ‘ grammar ’ , and to explain how important it was for children to use linguistic terminology . |
| 17 | Yeah , miles better , for the good of the country they 're not good for you , women should n't have the vote you know women should n't get the vote , I think they should bring back , bring back just men having vote , women do n't get a say as far as I 'm concerned that 's a good idea do n't you think ? |
| 18 | Next to him on his left , keeping as far as possible from the coals as though to emphasize his lack of pretensions to warmth , was Percy Makepeace ( ‘ We 're distantly welated to the Thackeways ' ) , the pale shred of a mathematics teacher . |
| 19 | Hoomey took off as usual , holding his nose , and came up with a shriek that probably carried as far as the bridge party two streets away . |
| 20 | John Boys in his Agriculture of the County of Kent 1794 , tells us that hop poles are the chief article which make woods valuable in this part of the country , there being not only local demand but the poles are carried as far as Maidstone and beyond , the planters preferring the poles grown on the hills to those of quicker growth . |
| 21 | The present aim of shaft design is to specify a particular bending flexibility in the shaft while reducing twisting as far as possible . |
| 22 | Freight services ran until 1956 when all services ceased and the track was lifted as far as Bardney , although the Bardney-Lincoln portion remained . |
| 23 | Brown and McCormick 's skuas and Wilson 's petrels fly as far as temperate latitudes of the northern hemisphere . |
| 24 | The oppressive regime I had anticipated was not apparent and the whole complex seemed clean , active and designed as far as possible to provide reasonable conditions and amenities for its inmates . |
| 25 | In particular it wanted to ensure that British nuclear thinking , planning , targeting and developments as a whole evolved along lines which were compatible with and were harnessed as far as possible to fit in with its own requirements . |
| 26 | I 'll cooperate as far as I can , on the understanding of course that I remain in control — full control — of anything to do with my project . |
| 27 | Government accepted responsibility for keeping aggregate monetary demand at a level sufficient to ensure full employment or what was considered as far as possible to constitute full employment ( an unemployment rate of 1% or 2% was considered acceptable ) , and the annual Budget was to be used as the main instrument of economic policy . |
| 28 | ‘ They would n't have come as far as this on their own , he must be driving them . ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | She has as far as pictures are concerned Rich . |