Example sentences of "far [conj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well over £1m has gone into the project so far but exact figures are not available . |
| 2 | HARPY 's use of a finite-state grammar permitted backwards pruning since a finite-state grammar has the property that any string of words leading to a given state is equivalent to any other string leading to that state as far as future states are concerned . |
| 3 | In the late 19th century , they studied bumps on heads ( phrenology ) and if you were unfortunate enough to have a large protuberance on your forehead — well , you would n't have got as far as nice chats in the grocer 's with a friendly-going-on-gullible type like myself . |
| 4 | Thus , in so far as middle-class women are more likely to perceive the low status of the housewife role , they are more likely than their working-class sisters to be dissatisfied with it . |
| 5 | The immediate prospects are not promising for the child , at least in so far as primary schools are concerned . |
| 6 | So far as Allied Colloids is concerned a great deal . |
| 7 | So far as actual repairs to defective books are concerned , I hope I have said enough in earlier pages to discourage collectors from attempting them , unless they submit themselves to attending one of the excellent courses arranged in some centres of education . |
| 8 | As far as actual examples of volcanic rocks are concerned , it was mentioned that the most abundant are basalts , which form at mid-ocean ridges , and andesites , which are formed at destructive plate margins . |
| 9 | As far as minimum requirements go , you will need to take at least one blank video cassette with you . |
| 10 | Shuckskin ? — some foreign name — rather handsome , actually — that such things were possible as far as Japanese women were concerned . |
| 11 | By themselves the facts are neutral but in so far as moral views about the proper role of the media are based upon presumptions about facts , our empirical findings are bound to have moral implications . |
| 12 | Although , he confesses , he can not provide ‘ money saving ideas , ’ he firmly believes that as far as mid-range systems go , Unix functionality is now on a par with proprietary systems , reflected in reduced proprietary pricing , and that substitution , rather than wholesale replacement , is the key to open systems . |
| 13 | Nutley ( 1982 ) , analysing these data , suggests that decline may have proceeded mainly by frequency reductions which have not gone as far as complete closures . |
| 14 | As far as state-owned items are concerned , Italy , Greece , Spain and Portugal oppose any time limit on requests to return an illegally removed object , on the grounds that it would be inalienable . |
| 15 | We should proceed beyond the immediate results of experience only so far as legitimate inductions will take us . |
| 16 | As far as official policies are concerned , assumptions concerning integration have been based on the acceptance of white majority schools as both normal and desirable . |
| 17 | As far as passing examinations is concerned , the obvious applies . |
| 18 | As far as immediate operations were concerned , he and Hackett had agreed that the two squadrons plus some of the Free French would use their new desert base to harry enemy road traffic along a 400-mile stretch of the coast road . |
| 19 | In education operational time scales tend to be longer than commercial ones , certainly so far as joint projects are concerned . |
| 20 | ( As far as modern women are concerned , an analogous situation must exist in which the demands of civilization — principally incest-avoidance and respect for the paternal authority — represent a recent and indeed onerous imposition on an earlier instinctual nexus which knew nothing of this , indeed which perhaps was the foundation of that submissiveness to male aggressiveness which still seems to underlie the female sexual constitution . |
| 21 | So far as modern alloys are concerned , their names ( eg ‘ copper-nickel ’ , aluminium-copper ’ etc ) often indicate the main ingredients . |
| 22 | As far as modern marriages go , 20 years is quite an achievement . |
| 23 | In so far as modern historians have tried to explain it , it is simply as a continuation of the war of 1173 This however , it was not . |
| 24 | Brown and McCormick 's skuas and Wilson 's petrels fly as far as temperate latitudes of the northern hemisphere . |
| 25 | As far as strategic partners go , Chuck House , senior vice president of research and development , says Informix is working with Microsoft on Windows NT , but not as closely as competitors Oracle Corp and Sybase Inc . |
| 26 | But it 's that figure there that I think we need to concentrate on as far as good bonuses are concerned . |
| 27 | Ultraviolet light is a mixed blessing as far as living things are concerned . |
| 28 | In water it forms aluminosilicates , which are inert as far as living organisms are concerned , so long as the level of acidity stays low — the silicon will make the aluminium separate out harmlessly . |
| 29 | As yet , so far as religious houses were concerned , it was the alienation of the gift , not the failure to fulfil the condition , that prompted recovery by the donor . |
| 30 | Of the CNAA-validated courses , twenty were freestanding and twenty-five degree-linked , while as far as university-validated courses are concerned , the likelihood is that they are virtually all degree-linked . |