Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] as far " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must also be borne in mind that in 685 Ecgfrith was able to invade through Strathmore as far as Nechtanesmere ( Dunnichen ) , near Forfar , which will have been in the more northerly kingdom of Circinn ( between the Isla and the Dee ) . |
| 2 | Julian took her companion by the hand , and wormed her way round elbows and between shoulders as far down the street as she could , drawing Brother John after her ; but before she was close enough to the gatehouse to see what was happening there she was brought to a halt , and could move no farther . |
| 3 | He was not going far , by no means as far as Longner , but far enough to be absent when the immediate danger threatened . |
| 4 | ‘ The reading of it has been a good preparation for Lent as far as I am concerned : for it shows me ( through the heroine ) the special sin of abuse of intellect to which all my profession are liable , more clearly than I ever saw before . |
| 5 | This alone would have been sufficient grounds for divorce as far as my Pop was concerned . |
| 6 | End of story as far as I 'm concerned . |
| 7 | No less an eminence than Lord Whitelaw echoed the loyalists ' warnings when he invoked an old Willie-ism in appealing for ‘ a stirring up of apathy as far as gossip , rumour and internal intrigue are concerned . ’ |
| 8 | What is the significance of the tort of negligence as far as computers and software are concerned ? |
| 9 | But of course as far as Britain was concerned , this could only be intervention against France . |
| 10 | But , many of these , er many of these jobs of course as far as the young people were concerned were dead end jobs . |
| 11 | I think that the idea of offsetting imbalances on on one project er with transfer the work in other is certainly very interesting but of course as far as the erm tornado programme is concerned I think it it is now really far too late because production is over apart from the the second Saudi Arabian order and we are really only working on the manufacture of spares and given that the existing suppliers are all tooled up for those and indeed her are way down the learning curve having produced vast quantities of them , it really would n't be economic to transfer any of that work now I do n't think . |
| 12 | And of course that become overlayed by the Gulf situation , but there are clear signs now that the recession has bottomed out but that we 're on the way up again and of course as far as erm terrorism and war is concerned , memories are pretty short . |
| 13 | One of the most universal of all designs ; it is found in the artistic and religious expression of cultures as far apart as America , Europe and India , as well as China , and has been ascribed many meanings ; the most popular of these are happiness , the heart of the Buddha and the number 10,000 . |
| 14 | Consequently , it has been closed off and is out of bounds as far as the Exhilarator goes . ’ |
| 15 | Some directors were of course friends of administration , and used their powers of patronage as far as possible to supplement the efforts of government , but others , and notably the Elphinstone family , used their Indian patronage to sustain an opposition to Henry Dundas in Scotland . |
| 16 | It was the end of cabaret as far as we were concerned . |
| 17 | Excavations at Tepe Gawra much nearer the highland sources of metals show that close contacts had already been established with the city states of Sumer as far back as the middle of the fourth millennium B.C. By the time of the Royal Cemetery of Ur ( c.2600–2500 B.C. ) metallurgy and not least gold- and silversmithing had already reached a stage at which many of the fundamental processes had been mastered . |
| 18 | He had certainly mentioned the possibility of independence as far back as the mid- 1950s . |
| 19 | ‘ He was not a womaniser ; he did n't have a lot of confidence as far as women were concerned . |
| 20 | But the single patient with x and not y does make a great deal of difference as far as the theoretical use of the concept is concerned . |
| 21 | And they 're not help particularly by this text which can consume them with a sense of guilt as far as their faith is concerned . |
| 22 | Well , I was bored by the whole of presentation as far as television was concerned because I think television is bound to be superficial . |
| 23 | ‘ We all know about criminal cases and traffic offences , but there are many aspects of the work of the Magistrates Court which do not see the light of day as far as the general public are concerned , for example juvenile and matrimonial cases . |
| 24 | There was not much of this kind of nonsense as far as I could tell by eavesdropping around the room , but there were cries of anguish when the prices of some of the wines were announced . |
| 25 | This is not a satisfactory state of affairs as far as a religion is concerned , and when this condition is reached it is in decline . |
| 26 | There are two important systems of nomenclature as far as we are concerned . |
| 27 | But the Chinese Muslims are spread throughout the country , from Xinjiang in the north-west right along the Great Wall of China as far as Peking and dotted throughout Ningxia province , including such key cities as Xian , home of the famous terracotta army , where the Chinese-style pavilions of the Great Mosque have been a place of worship for Muslims since the eighth century . |
| 28 | At the start of the season , the defensive system was a sweeper one , it worked superbly , we were winning though , but it , it 's the , it 's the reincarnation of the battle of Culloden as far as I 'm concerned ; Bonnie Prince Charlie just trying to swamp the Duke of Cumberland . |
| 29 | Guests included 8 past presidents as far back as Roger Mansfield ( 1960–61 ) . |
| 30 | We have already argued that the concept of a syndrome is not of use as far as theoretical analysis of language disorders is concerned , because it is not the case that a small number of syndromes ( defined as sets of symptoms which always co-occur ) actually exist . |