Example sentences of "[adv] far as [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The weather had recovered so far as to be rainless , breezy , faintly warm .
2 Then they sprang up joyfully and strangely , well away to the south in a part of the forest where they rarely were , so far as to be almost out of sight from the crown of an old dying beech where she and Allen were often perched like birds .
3 There was a twist to his mouth which , though not going so far as to be a smile , showed some amusement .
4 Indeed , some went so far as to ‘ play dumb ’ when they were with male students because they knew that the men did n't like clever women .
5 went so far as to almost in writing as part of the reasoning for the proposed change by Ryedale .
6 In kung fu one should never allow a technique to extend so far as to be impracticable .
7 On the wording of the statute it would seem that an effective entry into the building is sufficient without the accused 's going so far as to be in a position to effect his ulterior intent .
8 So far as to my specific erm , question is on B one , on the white paper , or other target , the public question , thirteen thousand , five hundred pounds of money you do say in the subsequent paragraph , this is to provide public question time at Council meetings .
9 How rich it is to hear the Scottish Labour leader impugn the integrity of the SNP when the integrity of Labour Party policies in the last year has been stretched so far as to be invisible .
10 So although no route can more truly be called a " beaten track " than the one which heads for the Gotthard Pass , now that the old Gotthard road has been supplanted so far as through traffic is concerned by the Basel-Chiasso motor expressway ( E9 , N2 ) , many towns and villages on the old road can be rated as " off the beaten track " .
11 The less biographical or historical evidence there is for this view of Milton , the more the scholars believe it , producing readings of Paradise Lost which ignore Lewis 's golden rule , ‘ You must , so far as in you lies , become an Achaean chief while reading Homer , a medieval knight while reading Malory , and an Eighteenth Century Londoner while reading Johnson .
12 I sat up late last night and read the Geste as far as to where Beren and his gnomish allies defeat the patrol of orcs above the sources of the Narog and disguise themselves in the reaf [ Old English : ‘ garments , weapons taken from the slain ’ ] .
13 Celebrities such as Amanda De Cadenet , whose baby has graced two covers this year , even go as far as to be pictured breastfeeding .
14 I actually wanted to that I did n't really want to go as far as for example deciding that the chair what they are voting would be within the resources available to the .
15 In some areas , mechanisation is replacing labour although in the countryside this has not gone as far as on North American farms .
16 " As far as from here to there , and from there back . "
17 From 1837–1843 , as far as in known , all Hahnemann 's administration of remedies was done in liquid form using variations on the above themes .
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