Example sentences of "far [conj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I beat the school 's fastest runner in the 100 metres sprint , breaking the finishing tape just before the other runners manage to leave their starting blocks ; I smash the school long jump record by 15 metres ( give or take a metre ) and I hurl the discus so far that Miss Harrison , the teacher in charge of the event , has to get her battered Mini from the car park to retrieve the discus for the next competitor ( who manages a measly 25cm ) . |
| 2 | This is the clearest evidence so far that Mr Gorbachev is willing to change his government 's plans in order to share authority with the federation council — the first step towards wider talks . |
| 3 | ‘ Four women so far and Valerie Mitchell wo n't be the last if we do n't catch him soon . |
| 4 | As far as West Germany is concerned the post-1945 reorganisation of the union movement into just 16 industrial unions made trade union structure in that country the least complex in Europe . |
| 5 | You do n't go as far as Church Hill ! |
| 6 | Well you do n't go as far as Church Hill then . |
| 7 | In his grandfather 's time the City had stretched only as far as Ch'ung Ch'ing . |
| 8 | It was quite a crush but the first circuit — left on to Orchard Street and all the way round Selfridges , then Oxford Street as far as Marylebone Lane and then Wigmore again — went off without serious injury . |
| 9 | Mr Williamson did n't mention it in his description of the way he 'd arrived , the County Council had arrived at their five hundred and odd hectares and er so far as West Yorkshire 's aware , it 's been ignored or so f as far as we 're aware so far , it 's been ignored . |
| 10 | To the outsider , psychoanalysis appears a pretty broad church , at least so far as dream interpretation is concerned . |
| 11 | These subjects slept like short sleepers in so far as sleep efficiency was improved , and deep slow wave sleep was maintained at baseline levels . |
| 12 | In so far as cost-of-funds matters lead to Japanese competitive advantage , it is more likely to be due to their willingness to take greater risks because of the low relative cost reported by Prowse ( 1986 ) and confirmed by Hodder ( 1986 ) , rather than a propensity to disregard DCF . |
| 13 | The tramway to Wallington , Carshalton and Sutton left the Mitcham line at Elis David Place at the western end of Tamworth Road , West Croydon , and after negotiating two rather sharp corners in Church Street and passing Croydon Parish Church , ran along Epsom Road , flanked on one side by the railway as far as Waddon Station . |
| 14 | ‘ As far as Marshal Tolonen is concerned , these things do not exist . |
| 15 | Erm for what it 's worth , I 'll give you my suggestions about what we should do as far as ticket prices are concerned er , having taken in a view of the most important factor of the treasurer 's comments but also bearing in mind that we did have high recurring expenses this year , which wo n't apply in future and we 're not here to make money . |
| 16 | When loaded , the toastracks crossed to the Promenade and travelled as far as Victoria Pier , up Station road and along Lytham Road to Royal Oak , round the Marton route and so back to Talbot Square . |
| 17 | Erm I think th as far as lorry drivers are concerned Stan and I both go around various companies and you are dealing with car drivers , van drivers , large goods vehicle drivers such as yourself , and er it 's fair to say that erm there are different levels of ability in each case . |
| 18 | So far as confession evidence is concerned , the old law emphasized that , to be capable of being entered in evidence , a confession had to be obtained ‘ voluntarily ’ . |
| 19 | Auguste repressed the traitorous thought that so far as household management went , she would prove like Mr David Copperfield 's ‘ child-wife ’ Dora . |
| 20 | So far as far as water sports are concerned I would make one reservation which is that there has to be some form of rationalization between competed sports which may conflict with each other and I am sure this can be achieved through the Sports Council machinery . |
| 21 | At the Moravian Church we had fine Advent hymns , and once I got as far as Bunyan Meeting and heard theirs . |
| 22 | As far as evaluation efforts by academic librarians in general are concerned , the primary problem has been the lack of student response to the process and the consequent impossibility of reaching sufficiently valid conclusions on the basis of small evaluation returns . |
| 23 | As far as Fri Fri is concerned , running costs are equal to half a penny for every pound of fried product , ’ he says . |
| 24 | As far as lab work went , I always felt very intimidated because I 'd never touched anything more technical than a hairdryer , and all these boys around me were confidently plugging in their oscilloscopes , because I mean , I suppose they had their train sets and that sort of thing , and I was very scared to plug things in , in case they blew up . |
| 25 | This is another interesting theoretical point , but probably of little consequence as far as error correction is concerned . |
| 26 | Deregulation within the Single European Market commenced on 1 July 1990 as far as credit insurance was concerned and two Continental European underwriters , Nederlandsche Credietverzekering Maatschappij NV ( NCM NV ) and Hermes , were noticeably more active in the UK market than others . |
| 27 | As far as fire-fighters pensions is concerned , the revised estimate is is really significantly higher than the original estimate . |
| 28 | But dégorgement dates back at least as far as Dom Pérignon , who we know kept bottles stored , neck downward , in a bed of sand in order to encourage the sediment to drift down to the base of the cork . |
| 29 | But Tilda had taught herself to produce , by widening her mouth into the shape of an oblong , a most unpleasant imitation of a bosun 's whistle , which could be heard almost as far as Lord Jim . |
| 30 | Somewhat surprisingly , the consequences of sleeping longer than usual are similar to sleeping less , so far as performance decrements are concerned . |