Example sentences of "far [conj] [pron] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 17.20 : Join Class Teacher and parent in meeting and discuss child 's progress so far and our hopes for the future . |
| 2 | Putting out work to these women , who are often from immigrant communities and are reluctant to complain , comes under the heading of ‘ streamlining ’ as far as their employers are concerned . |
| 3 | It gradually becomes apparent to every adolescent male that the only thing most penises have in common is that they are the wrong shape or size as far as their owners are concerned . |
| 4 | The threat was enough to stop Rita and Bob going as far as their friends with real rude words . |
| 5 | Follow-up studies after 4 or more years report less than 50% of cases as recovered , and even ‘ cured ’ patients have not necessarily returned to a normal life , at least as far as their attitudes and behaviour are concerned . |
| 6 | They had tunnelled down into the plateau , and they had built upwards as far as their materials and construction abilities would allow . |
| 7 | A society in which all can climb as far as their talents can reach , in which the ladder of opportunity is available to every boy and girl , will be both more vital and more prosperous . |
| 8 | As far as their disabilities allow they should have the opportunity to participate in normal community activities . |
| 9 | In particular West Ham and Poplar and a handful of other Boards with active Labour members went as far as their resources permitted in providing out-door relief and improved workhouse conditions even for the unemployed , even though they faced considerable opposition from the LGB . |
| 10 | The individuals may function well in different compartments , and while they may have inhabited the same house for 30 years , believing they are together , they may , in fact , not be together as far as their hopes and expectations go , so it is terribly important that they voice these things to their partners . |
| 11 | McLean 's attempt to impersonate a tic-tac man apart — all he needed was a pair of white gloves — the game offered little in the way of entertainment , which was particularly disappointing when the outcome meant so much to both sides as far as their hopes of finishing fourth in the Premier Division was concerned . |
| 12 | In the morass of detail Mills brings forward to describe his ‘ power elite ’ , it is easy to ignore this fundamental assumption which precedes his empirical work : ‘ In so far as the power elite is composed of men of similar origin and education , in so far as their careers and their styles of life are similar , there are psychological and social bases for their unity , resting upon the fact that they are of similar social type and leading to the fact of their easy intermingling ’ . |
| 13 | There are over protective parents and there are those that will defend the indefensible as far as their children are concerned . |
| 14 | If they give advice , they mainly do it after a lifetime 's experience and because they are anxious to help — though I 'll not deny that some parents can be real nasties as far as their children are concerned . |
| 15 | But as far as their ideas of women in society goes it has n't changed — that women should stay home and do the cooking . ’ |
| 16 | And as far as their consciences were concerned , they justified the colour under their brevets that they earned during the period when they were having grave doubts about their own efficiency . |
| 17 | This is particularly the case for damage to the left hemisphere of the brain ; and this led to the concept of cerebral dominance : the idea that the left hemisphere dominated the right as far as their contributions to cognitive processing were concerned . |
| 18 | As far as her friends were concerned she worked as a translator at the United Nations . |
| 19 | As far as her friends were concerned , she was a translator at the United Nations . |
| 20 | It had been granted grudgingly and she knew she was on thin ice as far as her superiors were concerned . |
| 21 | Why ca n't the woman be assessed as an individual , and benefit paid in so far as her resources are insufficient to meet her requirements ? |
| 22 | I said , ‘ Did you hear me giving her a puff as far as her policies were concerned ? |
| 23 | He gazed at her shapely legs , exposed as far as her thighs . |
| 24 | They will therefore be interested in the firm only in so far as its activities and financial structure influence the risk class of the bonds . |
| 25 | Article 26 of the ICAO convention imposes an obligation on the State in which an aircraft accident occurs to institute an inquiry in certain circumstances and , as far as its laws permit , to conduct the inquiry in accordance with ICAO procedure . |
| 26 | But capitalism , after Indian independence , was ( in so far as its effects on the rural population were concerned ) merely following along the paths established by British colonialism and British capitalism . |
| 27 | I prefer to apply the principle that a promise intended to be binding , intended to be acted on and in fact acted on , is binding so far as its terms properly apply . |
| 28 | The duel in which Lermontov was soon to die is said to have been patterned , so far as its arrangements went , on the one in the novel : the outcome , however , was perceptibly different . |
| 29 | The Premier League got off to a wonderful start as far as its detractors were concerned when Arsenal lost 4-2 at home to Norwich , a side still stubbornly refusing to go back to what is considered their rightful place near the bottom of the League . |
| 30 | As far as its lyrics are concerned , ‘ Creep ’ is a dark , desperate trawl through unrequited obsession , heavy on self-loathing and personal inadequacy ; not an easy song to listen to , but one whose disquieting subject matter makes it nothing short of stunning . |