Example sentences of "[adv] far as [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In so far as millions of families live under economic conditions of existence that separate their mode of life , their interests and their culture from those of other classes … they form a class . |
| 2 | And so one may say , in more directly Piagetian terms , that the child 's thinking fails , by our lights , in so far as one thought is not balanced ( ‘ in equilibrium with ’ in Piaget 's jargon ) by another . |
| 3 | Lawfulness is clearly an issue in so far as one of the fundamental principles of the British , no less than most other constitutions , is that government action should take place under the authority of , and in accordance with law the narrow literal meaning of the rule of law — so that repeated unlawful actions or a perceived casualness towards the duty to comply with the law would in itself begin to raise doubts about the legitimacy of governmental action . |
| 4 | So far as one of its most important components was concerned , early opera developed pari passu with solo song , but its evolution was controlled by other factors . |
| 5 | For Bickerton , the continuum — a dynamic system of lects — is necessary to explain the complexities of the Guyanese linguistic situation : " for Guyanese Creole clearly does not constitute a language , in so far as one end of it is indistinguishable from English " ( Bickerton 1973 : 166 ) . |
| 6 | But , so far as two-thirds of appellants are concerned , the most dissatisfying aspect of the appeal process lies in a discovery that the appeal has been unsuccessful . |
| 7 | He got as far as twelve , then he looked puzzled . |
| 8 | The New Moon in your opposite sign of Scorpio on the 29th should prove exciting and rather eventful as far as one involvement or partnership is concerned — and obviously 1989 is by no means over yet , not by a long chalk . |
| 9 | I would not go as far as one group which makes ‘ coupleness and a sense of call in husband and wife ’ one of their ten non-negotiables for church planters . |
| 10 | I think the approach of parents is very often really quite a simple one erm that they have a number of very well defined expectations of the school and that is as far as one individual parent is concerned , that the parents wants the child to go to the school , he wants that child properly controlled , provided that it 's done in the way in which he particularly approves , and if you have fifteen hundred different parents there might be fourteen hundred and eighty five different techniques at work here , and then he wants the child simultaneously to be successful and happy . |
| 11 | ‘ Not as far as 1 know . |
| 12 | The latter extended at least as far as 1022 , and maybe to 1028 , when all record Cnut 's journey to Norway in similar words , or even to 1030 or 1034 , which give the deaths of King Olaf of Norway and Bishop Æthelric of Dorchester . |
| 13 | Those three points are bound to be read as concessions to public opinion , given a series of weekend polls putting Labour as far as 11 points ahead of the Conservatives . |
| 14 | I got as far as nine . |
| 15 | The concept goes back at least as far as 1877 when Jessel MR stated in Winn v Bull [ 1877 ] 7 Ch 29 that " where you have a proposal or agreement made in writing expressed to be subject to a formal contract being prepared , it means what it says ; it is subject to and is dependent upon a formal contract being prepared . " |
| 16 | The new dredge is capable of chasing gold deposits as far as 70 metres inland from ancient water courses . |
| 17 | Once a Roman colony , Rimini 's history stretches back as far as 268 BC . |
| 18 | This chapter aims to reflect the reality of interdisciplinary contacts while maintaining that the pivot for the development of early learning opportunities for all children is educational and that , therefore , the ‘ lead department ’ in local authorities as far as under-fives ( including of course special needs ) is , or ought legitimately to be , education . |
| 19 | For example , Bracey ( 1958 ) in a study of 375 Somerset parishes found that , in general , the more remote and less well serviced parishes were those with the worst and most persistent depopulation , and findings like this only encouraged the further development of theories of settlement concentration in the 1960s although these can also be traced back as far as 1918 , when Peake ( 1918 ) advocated equally-spaced villages with populations of between 1,000 and 1,500 people . |
| 20 | The courts seem to take the view that the minimum mark-up is usually in the region of 50 per cent of the hourly rate , and can rise in personal injury cases to 75 per cent in a very big , difficult case , and could go up as far as 100 per cent or more for cases of the greatest difficulty or where quantum is huge and complex . |
| 21 | This trade-off was based on the original observations by Professor A. W. Phillips of the relationship between the rate of change of money wage rates and unemployment levels over long periods of time going back as far as 1861 . |
| 22 | He flies to some distant part of the forest — usually 150 m ( nearly 200 yards ) , but sometimes as far as 3.5 km ( over 2 miles ) , away . |
| 23 | It was not uncommon for stolen animals to be transported along paths and roads for as far as fifty kilometres . |
| 24 | The origins of this philosophy go back as far as 1970 when Shell and the Nature Conservancy first devised a competition aimed at encouraging young people to come up with ideas to conserve their local environment . |
| 25 | And by the conference and the Definition Order on 21 May that question had as far as 5 Corps was concerned , finally been settled . |
| 26 | Although the perfume is rapidly diluted by the air , the male 's antennae are so sensitive that he can detect a female from as far as 5 kilometres away . |
| 27 | As shown in Figure 2 , the CEO sets strategic goals that look ahead as far as 25 years and manages executive vice-presidents ( EVPs ) with responsibility for 12- to 15-year development programs . |
| 28 | As far as ninety four , five is concerned , erm the , er estimate is some six hundred and eighty- one thousand pounds higher than the the original estimate for this year , and again , there is a mix of factors giving rise to that . |
| 29 | Fish are unable to spawn as their breeding grounds are buried or destroyed by sand banks created by the dredgers , whose operations render water undrinkable as far as 60 km downstream . |
| 30 | Lorraine Shaw says … she wwent to a course at Cheltenham and the coach told her that she could be throwing as far as 60 metres in two years … now her ambition is to break the commonwealth record and eventually the world record |