Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [adv] far " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could see twigs scattered along the lane for as far as the car 's headlights reached . |
| 2 | Bushwick is a neighbourhood about as far removed from flashy mid-town Manhattan as it is possible to get . |
| 3 | The lower limit of TL dating of sediment is closely linked with uncertainty about how far the sediment was bleached in antiquity , and this led to development of the optically stimulated luminescence ( OSL ) technique . |
| 4 | That hardly anyone was prepared to accept the Führer 's word on the losses suffered by Germany is a clear indication of how far the decline in confidence had reached . |
| 5 | Because in the earlier interviews no attempt was made to stimulate recollections of grandparents , we have a clearer indication of how far such memories were important . |
| 6 | The Washington Post of July 17 described this overwhelming endorsement as " an indication of how far the official Communist majority has had to move in order to keep pace with the pressure from Rukh [ the main nationalist opposition group ] " . |
| 7 | Without a balanced perspective , the temptation to concentrate on the less important , more quantitative role of chance is strong , at the expense of possibly far more serious biases hidden in the design . |
| 8 | Aristotle also doubted whether there could be time without thinking beings , since he regarded time as not merely succession but ‘ succession in so far as it is numbered ’ , and nothing can be numbered unless there is someone to do the counting . |
| 9 | Section 296A(1) also makes any term or condition in an agreement void in so far as it purports to prohibit or restrict the use of any device or means to observe , study or test the functioning of a computer program in order to understand the ideas and principles underlying any element of the program . |
| 10 | In most fields , the Stormont government aimed to follow British practice in so far as this benefited its citizens but to act separately when special local conditions required separate treatment . |
| 11 | The Interim Committee reached the decision on 26 February 1948 that UNTCOK should adhere to the original intention in so far as this could be accomplished ; elections would be supervised in the south but nothing could be done about the north . |
| 12 | In their view this had hopelessly inhibited the quest for the causes of crime in the case of classical criminology , and diverted attention away from social defence in the case of the neoclassicists ( since the latter were only interested in ‘ determinants ’ of crime in so far as they reduced the offender 's responsibility ) . |
| 13 | It 's in a way like a bereavement in as far its the middle of the afternoon and everything is going well , then suddenly everything 's changed and they 're pretty devastated and do n't know how they ought to react . |
| 14 | Reports of Parliamentary proceedings are protected by the ordinary law of defamation in so far as they are fair and accurate unless the defamed person can prove malice . |
| 15 | The merchant is , however , a typical fabliau target figure in so far as he is ridiculous in his ignorance of how his wife and friend have deceived and cuckolded him . |
| 16 | The relocations issue , on relocations the County Council uses past land take-up , there will be an element of relocations included within that land take-up figure in so far as land which is vacated on small sites and falls to another use that is that is not counted . |
| 17 | It must therefore be recognised that a court which has jurisdiction under article 5(3) over an action in so far as it is based on tort or delict does not have jurisdiction over that action in so far as it is not so based . |
| 18 | It must therefore be recognised that a court which has jurisdiction under article 5(3) over an action in so far as it is based on tort or delict does not have jurisdiction over that action in so far as it is not so based . |
| 19 | In relation to the outside world they imply a wariness to foreign investors , and an ambivalence to foreign aid in so far as investors and aid donors may undermine the autonomy of the government . |
| 20 | The range of permissible investments , for instance , is defined by statute in so far as the settlement makes no provision ; but , even within the limits of investment allowed by statute or settlement , a trustee may incur liability by want of due care in exercising his discretion . |
| 21 | It is a gradual , continuously varying effect on how far you can walk , and how fast . |
| 22 | The story of this far from illustrious beginning was one Hugo never tired of telling , for the fact that he had started with nothing but raw talent and stubborn determination was something of which he was justifiably proud but he was less forthcoming about what had happened next . |
| 23 | But the problems and discontent of today far outstrip the grumblings heard in 1964 . |
| 24 | ‘ We will go to Leeds , the defending champions , feeling confident , instead of just hoping for the best — and that 's a measure of how far we 've come . |
| 25 | They had had many rows like this , and it was a measure of how far their relationship had come that Edward , while sometimes scorched by the depth of Erica 's cynicism , fought his corner without descending into rage and came back for more . |
| 26 | Despite the problems we are inclined to accept some homologies in the nervous system , although there is disagreement about how far one should take it . |
| 27 | That said , there is a serious question about how far we can speak of ‘ women 's languages ’ or ‘ genderlects ’ in the same way we talk of ‘ Lancashire dialect ’ or ‘ Jamaican creole ’ . |
| 28 | One moment halfway up the straight it looked as if Eddery might have cut it too fine ; the next it was a question of how far he would win by , for this burst of speed was so decisive that it made the top horses in Europe look one-paced . |
| 29 | The Library Association is increasing efforts in parliamentary lobbying but the question of how far it wants to go in challenging the use of legislation for censorship is unclear . |
| 30 | In chapter 3 I shall discuss more fully the question of how far these demographic structures do affect the nature of family obligations , at any given point in historical time , considering in particular how far demographic factors in the late twentieth century have given a particular shape to kin groups . |