Example sentences of "as far [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ golden age ’ of the English funeral , as far as undertaking techniques were concerned , was the period from 1725 to 1775 and most of the finest extant coffins in public and private vaults were made during that time . |
| 2 | ‘ Lots of times I think a president seems so out of your league as far as knowing somebody . |
| 3 | It 's almost beyond belief that they should go as far as to kill three of our own men . ’ |
| 4 | All hell broke loose , Mount Stewart was besieged by the media , and one Fleet Street paper went as far as accusing MacDonald of duplicity . |
| 5 | On inspecting this table we can begin to raise questions about the balance of men and women in secondary school teaching ; especially as far as teaching particular age groups are concerned with more women teaching the younger pupils in middle schools than teaching in comprehensive schools where the complete age range is present . |
| 6 | ‘ Where we 're concerned , our religious involvement only goes as far as using images of , say , the Virgin Mary on our sleeves , but it 's not us being disrespectful . |
| 7 | ‘ Where we 're concerned , our religious involvement only goes as far as using images of , say , the Virgin Mary on our sleeves , but it 's not us being disrespectful . |
| 8 | We have , therefore , to consider why marriages effectively end , as well as why couples will go as far as to go to the courts to legally separate , and what social factors underlie the responses to changes in legislation . |
| 9 | The final text substitutes waistcoat for frock-coat — ‘ I do n't think they 'll get as far as taking my waistcoat off ’ — even better for the pampered softy with his vein of oldwomanish guile . |
| 10 | Harold is a very good prime minister as far as taking the Cabinet goes . |
| 11 | They had n't got as far as stating any intention on that subject — for the simple reason that marriage had n't been part of the plan . |
| 12 | Stockdale even went as far as praising Laurent for having surveyed , and a foreigner at that , without the knowledge of the language and ‘ by eye alone … without the use of instruments and in the coldest part of the year … in less than two months two towns for some miles in circumference , with all their intricate communications . ’ |
| 13 | Potrovsky had waxed and polished the car the night before and had even gone as far as to iron the two pennants which flew on either side of the bonnet . |
| 14 | As far as eating punches , he said , ‘ Only a fool wan na be hit . |
| 15 | ‘ We will only go as far as suggesting some of the market leaders like Sage and Pegasus , then we let the customers decide ’ . |
| 16 | One Columbia University student went as far as writing a paper on the novel and its author and was awarded a respectable grade . |
| 17 | Not all go as far as Ales Lederer , the young editor of the dissident magazine Prostor , who declares that ‘ if there is unemployment , even if it is 3m , this is the sign of a healthy economy , for the economy runs itself naturally . |
| 18 | Some schools go as far as appointing a press officer from amongst the staff or the governors . |
| 19 | In Canada the Human Rights Act 1978 does not go as far as removing mandatory retirement ages ( although there is pressure growing to do so ) but does make it unlawful to deprive people of employment opportunities on grounds of age , as a result of policies or practices relating to recruitment promotion , training , or other personnel matters . |
| 20 | Even when Shaun and Bez went as far as editing Penthouse for the day , papers tutted and sighed but still printed pictures of the pair grinning like village idiots , surrounded by tits and bums . |
| 21 | By 1990 , IGBP had progressed as far as defining a set of seven core projects ( IGBP 1990 ) addressing these four themes . |
| 22 | José Harris has gone as far as to describe the dispute as ‘ a major conflict of principle ’ between the two boards . |
| 23 | Dulles on 12 December 1957 went as far as to describe France as " a very weak partner indeed " and one which caused him a lot of anxiety . |
| 24 | By next morning I 'd only got as far as realising that I had to talk you round . ’ |
| 25 | Indeed , one correspondent went as far as to call it the ‘ sexiest ’ although that must be debatable . |
| 26 | They had actually chosen themselves to come in on the study and so they were obviously schools which were particularly interested in involving parents as much as they could , and erm they would all certainly have done as , probably as much as most schools in the country are doing as , as far as involving parents are concerned , both in having parent helpers in the classrooms , and in having organisations for parents and social events for parents of the , of the fundraising type . |
| 27 | I sit there quietly revising my priorities as far as expending grief goes . |
| 28 | Barclay 's has gone as far as to create a ‘ high technology ’ unit to examine requests for finance from possible customers . |
| 29 | The Greek governing party , PASOK , went as far as to create a ‘ Green Guard ’ around the Premier Papandreou . |
| 30 | She ought to unpack , but she only got as far as getting out Ricky 's photograph in its blue silk frame and putting it beside the bed . |