Example sentences of "far as [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In another study of migrants in central Wales , Jones ( 1965 ) even went so far as to test all of Ravenstein 's laws , but he could only definitely confirm Laws 1 and 5 , which argue that most migrants only travel a short distance , but that those who do travel further migrate to the great centres of commerce and industry . |
| 3 | It 's almost beyond belief that they should go as far as to kill three of our own men . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ We will only go as far as suggesting some of the market leaders like Sage and Pegasus , then we let the customers decide ’ . |
| 6 | There is little doubt that Hamer have achieved what they set out to do as far as producing great vintage guitar tones from contemporary instruments . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The process is technically demanding and time-consuming , to say the least , and leaves WABI snookered as far as staying current with Windows development goes , a situation Microsoft is likely to exploit . |
| 9 | The process is technically demanding and time-consuming , to say the least , and puts WABI behind the eight ball as far as staying current with Windows development , a situation Microsoft is likely to exploit . |
| 10 | The process is technically demanding and time-consuming , to say the least , and leaves WABI snookered as far as staying current with Windows development goes , a situation Microsoft is likely to exploit . |
| 11 | Sensing the dangers of such rivalry , the Communists intensified their attack on the ILP , going so far as to declare that disaffiliation was but a temporary manoeuvre . |
| 12 | The mitigation of the law was at first carried so far as to sacrifice that object , said J.S. Mill . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Christine Brooke-Rose does not go so far as to disavow authorial creativity altogether , but she too sees technology as the possible key to a breakthrough in how we think about the human subject . |
| 15 | An editorial recently went so far as to say that more important than establishing a framework for research and development was doing something about the failure to disseminate and apply existing knowledge . |
| 16 | We might even go so far as to say that amplification of deviance among one group rather than among another could simply be due to chance . |
| 17 | So I think it 's easy to see that religion fulfils this civilizing socially controlling role , but of course , this has been a popular theme in sociological writing in the course of the twentieth century , indeed , you could go so far as to say this , it is has become a cliche , in twentieth century social science . |
| 18 | ‘ And he set us on a new track as far as putting human rights violations in a political context was concerned . |
| 19 | My thesis is that our institutions must be so structurally altered that , so far as regards permanent legislation , the will of the majority will always prevail against that of the party composing the executive for the time being , and that , whoever may form the government of the day will be compelled to follow procedures and policies compatible with the nature of Parliamentary democracy and the rule of freedom under law . |
| 20 | I will go so far as to concede that taken in isolation , ripped away from the defining context of humour and irony and friendship , studied in their literal or surface sense only , then , yes , the words I spoke in that room as Robert stood at the window pretending to take me seriously could be understood to mean that during the past six or seven years I had gone to bed with more than one hundred and fifty prostitutes . |
| 21 | Indeed , some people have gone so far as to elevate these restrictions on the initial conditions and the parameters to the status of a principle , the anthropic principle , which can be paraphrased as , ‘ Things are as they are because we are . |
| 22 | He was even prepared to go so far as to admit that monotony was the most comfortable way . |
| 23 | It 's , it 's a very simple organism , but basically what it 's there for is to ensure the future of T four genes , and this is what i it 's doing , and presumably natural selection has er selected it in such a way that it is an optimum design as far as , as far as doing this er is concerned , because it would be in competition with mutant T fours who did it in different ways , and presumably this is the kind of T four that seems to succeed . |
| 24 | So far as concerns professional regulation , the Law Society requires that the membership of each such company be confined to qualified solicitors , retired partners and the dependents of retired or deceased partners . |
| 25 | The recent Report of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution even goes so far as to recommend that straw burning should be banned in five years time . |
| 26 | He even went so far as to demand universal manhood suffrage and annually-elected parliaments . |
| 27 | BTW the season as far as scoring concerned started on Dec 27 . |
| 28 | In theory this process could go as far as equating marginal cost with demand so that the bureaucracy obtains all the consumer surplus . |
| 29 | Well , if you are typical of your birth sign , you will have already made up your mind and taken your leave around August 6th , when it became apparent that certain associates had sided against you or even gone so far as to hatch some kind of plot . |
| 30 | Elderly people and their families who wish to ‘ go it alone , so far as obtaining outside help is concerned are , of course , quite at liberty to do so , and four of the large organisations who can give advice on a great variety of problems are : |