Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] as [adv] [conj] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Although the CNAA system had been in operation since 1964 , ‘ it is only recently that it has made almost total inroads as far as the central , advanced colleges of technology in Scotland are concerned ’ . |
| 2 | Recent decisions from Europe give clear rules as far as the union 's concerned and I hope the Labour Party . |
| 3 | Taylor runs a government funded research team which is trying to develop a computer that can make the right tactical decisions as consistently as the top 10 per cent of generals . |
| 4 | I remembered arriving in Cross the previous day on the school bus noticing the universal teatime re-fuelling of hundreds of fires and stores ; fresh puffing chimneys as far as the eye could see . |
| 5 | There may have been a formal recognition of Christianity by the leaders of some Serbian tribes as early as the seventh century , but the real beginnings of Christianity in this area date from the last decades of the ninth century and are associated with the ‘ Apostles of the Slavs ’ , the brothers Constantine-Cyril ( Kiril ) and Methodius ( Metodije ) . |
| 6 | Later generations of women have been catching up with their male contemporaries as far as the acquisition of paper qualifications is concerned . |
| 7 | Right , now , erm , were going to have it on the actual headings as far as the minutes concerned cos we did n't deal with anything very much last time , but the next item on the agenda erm , is usually campaigns and Amnesty erm usually has one or two or more campaigns running on a particular aspect of it 's work or a particular country and there was some that really started maybe two or three years ago and which have continued erm in a smaller form since that time . |
| 8 | A second-century cremation cemetery has been uncovered south of the defended area in Swan Street ; it was claimed to have been receiving additional burials as late as the third and fourth centuries , when it must have lain within the built-up area . |
| 9 | If this were a story by a ‘ serious ’ writer the critics would pursue the symbolism of hidden latches and dark tunnels as diligently as the children pursue the gang of international smugglers discovered in the cave at the end of the tunnel . |
| 10 | Fleury was quite wrong in thinking that Miriam had been nourishing amorous ambitions as far as the Collector was concerned ; on the contrary , throughout the siege she had taken great pains not to allow her feelings to attach themselves to any individual man . |
| 11 | The tumbled surface of the sea looked blue-green , with white horses as far as the eye could see . |
| 12 | He would pick his way delicately , almost mincing , along the trail between the giant pine cones , planting his two-toed feet as delicately as the Queen Mother would in a field of cow pats . |
| 13 | Yet they were clearly important considerations as far as the school was concerned . |
| 14 | There are really only two important considerations as far as the desktop publisher is concerned ; is it readable and does it look good . |
| 15 | While the Blackpool cars ventured over the ex-Company tracks as far as the Cabin , soon after the Gynn junction was completed , it was not until 1926 that double-deckers reached Bispham . |
| 16 | We have decided that the fundamental points as far as the is concerned is the presentation of services . |
| 17 | In the meantime it was the Japanese attack on the US which would prove to have the most rewarding consequences as far as the Vietminh were concerned . |
| 18 | There are beautiful faces as far as the eye can see . |
| 19 | Mainstream social administration opinion , inevitably constrained by fiscal orthodoxy , political considerations , and the wage structure , argued that the relaxations of means-testing which were introduced in 1924 had , in Wilson and Mackay 's somewhat disingenuous verdict , ‘ extended non-contributory pensions as widely as the system permitted ’ . |
| 20 | There were green fields as far as the eye could see . |
| 21 | She was half-turned from him , letting her eyes follow the beams and wishing she could drift through the open doors as easily as the nets lifted in the seasonless breeze . |
| 22 | Lonely white roads stretched across the great , wide moors as far as the hills . |
| 23 | I ask her if she has any special preferences as far as the telly is concerned . |
| 24 | And while the rewards in terms of job satisfaction have not reached the dizzy heights of the 1980s , Mr Wilson stresses : ‘ You have to have a thick skin and be prepared to stick with it through the bad times as well as the good . ’ |
| 25 | One day , they met in the second class compartment of a train — unemployed but taking the bad days as cheerfully as the good , knowing that tomorrow probably would find them enjoying the material rewards of advertising yet again . |
| 26 | Yes , it was not so much a deletion as er a reduction in the numbers because we were very mindful erm in going through the requirement erm and not making significant changes as far as the U K was concerned and we needed to make some savings in cost if at all possible and therefore we carried out a very comprehensive review of all the items of role equipment such as drop tanks er pylons , explosive release units and those type of things which had been provisionally earmarked for a very high intensive and fairly long running conflict and it was felt that if we were to make some savings then it was a sensible balance to reduce those numbers on the basis that we could save some money in the programme but at the same time many of these items could be bought later on at relatively short notice , clearly not within a conflict but in the years to come . |