Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [conj] [art] [noun prp] be " in BNC.

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1 If you want to keep Pimelodus pictus with small fish , you might find you can get away with it in a densely planted tank , so long as the Pims are getting plenty of other food to eat .
2 So far as the UK is concerned , the proposed Directive contains little that is new in substance and , indeed , it shows clear signs of actually being based on the City Code on Takeovers and Mergers , the UK rulebook for takeovers .
3 That put the cork in the bottle , so far as the Danuese were concerned .
4 So far as the Yek were concerned any man who was not of the race of the True people — the Yek , the N'pani , the Ch'noze — was an alien , barely human , and as such was forever suspect .
5 Therefore , so far as the ICC is concerned , the matter is closed . ’
6 The recorded balance might have been improved so far as the Berg is concerned had the soloist been fractionally more forward , and an extra desk each of first and second violins would have added more weight .
7 As to my husband , he does what he is told as ever and I have faced the truth long ago that the Brownings are more important to him than I am .
8 This continuity had not been maintained without a struggle , and once again when the GLC was abolished there were moves to distribute the responsibilities of the ILEA between the constituent boroughs .
9 He stated that the proposals made by the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer , John Major , on June 20 for a gradualist approach to EMU via the introduction of a parallel currency , the " hard ecu " , contained some very practical elements and that these might be taken more seriously if the UK were to demonstrate a full commitment to EMU .
10 You will have spotted straight away that the Caribbean is not exactly renowned for the quality of its knitwear .
11 As far as the UK is concerned , ’ said Keith Standford of Amada in England , ‘ it 's in dispute which particular model will eventually be on sale here .
12 Our understanding is that , as far as the UK is concerned , generally accepted accounting principles have precedence over statutory requirements . ’
13 A straightforward explanation for this is that inflation affects all voters whereas unemployment tends to be heavily concentrated on ( as far as the UK is concerned ) areas not noted for extensive Conservative support .
14 Moreover , as far as the USA was concerned — but vestigially this was probably also true of the USSR before the Gorbachev era — the basic conflict was ideological , the triumph of the ‘ right ’ ideology being equated with the supremacy of the appropriate superpower .
15 As far as the BBC was concerned there could n't be enough semi-finals like Portsmouth v Liverpool .
16 As far as The Smiths were concerned the importance of this success can not be underestimated .
17 I had three children , a home to run … and tunnel vision as far as the Spencers were concerned .
18 In retrospect , was leaving Lotus alone the wrong thing to do as far as the Elan was concerned ?
19 ‘ What you have here is a traditional account of Masai origins , but also mixed with the arrival of this woman — I am assuming , although it is not my business , the ethnographer , Claude Cohn-Casson — yes , okay , well , there was an incident during the war , a famous incident as far as the Masai is concerned , when a British official was killed in a very small dispute about cattle .
20 The former won , which was all to the good as far as the SAS was concerned .
21 Wednesday 12 February 1800 was a commonplace day as far as the Pearmans were concerned .
22 As far as the RAF was concerned , they had this nice little lull when losses fell substantially , so it was for us a calm period in the storm .
23 As far as the CBR is concerned the distant galaxies provide a preferred frame , something that is anathema to SR or classical mechanics .
24 In any case , even the GCC itself recognises that such a defence structure will be inadequate — at least as far as the Gulf is concerned .
25 LIKE death and taxes , criticism is one of life 's certainties , at least as far as the RUC is concerned .
26 The extreme snobbery of this abstruse observation would have been rude had it been clear , for Lydia knew perfectly well that the Molesworths were the sort of people who picnicked in lay-bys , bringing little chairs and tables and using the car boot as a sort of sideboard .
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