Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] far [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A broadside written towards the end of the 1680s defended the Church of England against the charge that their stress on obedience and subjection had been pressed so far as " to set up arbitrary Power , and the Will of the Prince , above Law " . |
| 2 | The dynamo equations , including all the boundary conditions regarded so far as plausible , and the equations governing the magnetic field in that part of the mantle that is above the Curie temperature , are invariant under reversal of sign of the magnetic field . |
| 3 | A second line of argument is to see the picture painted so far as too static . |
| 4 | I took the view , shared by counsel , that no similar privilege was justified so far as copyright was concerned . |
| 5 | But er we got out eventually , and they managed to get a road through to us , and but er And er I remember another time where a bank came in and they were one man trapped in the far end and there were another man trapped on this end and my brother and me we we dug round to him , we got to him , we got him bared so far and what To his waist , and it was still bitting and we got hold of his belt , right , ready ? |
| 6 | FEW companies have fallen so far and fast as IBM . |
| 7 | Thank you for the prompt and efficient service given so far and I hope this is an indication of the quality of supervision that we can expect . |
| 8 | The idea has been taken up by the British Library , and by Scottish university libraries , though no dramatic results appear to have been registered so far as acquisition practice is concerned . |
| 9 | Not only do the results have no bearing on rankings — and therefore do not matter — but they are forgotten so far as historical records are concerned almost before the players have walked off the court . |
| 10 | There is only one equation we have not considered so far and that is eqn ( 4.3 ) , which will probably look more familiar in another form . |
| 11 | They are expected so far as practicable to make decisions on benefit entitlement within 14 days , but this time limit is frequently exceeded . |
| 12 | We have actually four questions and three subordinate questions which we were addressing and only one of them has been resolved so far and that is whether the Chairman of the Police Authority should be appointed by the Home Secretary or by the Authority and we are I think all have to agree that it should be by the latter . |
| 13 | Indeed in Lylsland Church in Paisley this fetish was carried so far that even the common cup used by the minister and elders on either side , had three wee individual cups soldered inside the brim , lest their lips should touch . |
| 14 | The mitigation of the law was at first carried so far as to sacrifice that object , said J.S. Mill . |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | If she meant to make us nervous , she 's succeeded as far as I 'm concerned . |
| 19 | 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% . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ They would n't have come as far as this on their own , he must be driving them . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | They can not reconcile the liberal precept that private autonomy should be respected as far as possible with the practice of legally enforcing all promises . |
| 28 | Reluctance and misunderstanding must in their case be dissolved as far as possible by rational persuasion . |
| 29 | The dung only penetrated as far as my upper thigh as we struck up the devastated hillside towards Meall a' Choire Leith . |
| 30 | The implications of the new technological revolution go far beyond the silicon chip and its offspring , a message that may have penetrated as far as Kenneth Baker , Britain 's Minister for Information Technology . |