Example sentences of "far as [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We could travel together as far as Doha and I would go on alone to Abu Dhabi . |
| 2 | Western Turkey and Sicily were initially affected , but by 1348 it had spread as far as Spain and Morocco . |
| 3 | The books of Roald Dahl are in the group of books that , due to their appeal to young readers , and perhaps their iconoclastic treatment of the adult world , are suspect as far as critics and prize panels are concerned . |
| 4 | Therefore , unless hiking with considerable fortitude , the only way to approximate their journey is to take the normal road up as far as Invermoriston and then continue on its south-western fork , the A887 , and in time it becomes the road — or so I presume — ; Johnson and Boswell travelled , the one cut by General Wade , straight across the rising land and emerging a little over half-way along the present road through Glenmoriston . |
| 5 | What distinguished the Court of Napoleon III was its brilliance and verve , for he was determined that it should in no way resemble the moribund courts of Europe , stifling under the weight of tradition , except in so far as etiquette and good order must prevail . |
| 6 | In relation to the outside world they imply a wariness to foreign investors , and an ambivalence to foreign aid in so far as investors and aid donors may undermine the autonomy of the government . |
| 7 | Western ports did play a part in shipping corn to London , in some years at least , the capital 's swallow reaching as far as Exeter and beyond to Cornwall . |
| 8 | So far as Gassendi and ( as we shall see ) Locke were concerned this objection is misplaced for , having a modest and moral view of our proper concerns , they retain an element of scepticism about man 's ability to know . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've told her we 'll give her a lift as far as Malaga and that 's what we 'll do . ’ |
| 10 | Er you 've got people who were representing the community that 's as far as law and order is concerned er making decisions . |
| 11 | As far as law and order was concerned just over half believed bringing back the death penalty would decrease crime , while 64pc said sentencing was ‘ too soft ’ on adult criminals . |
| 12 | Joyce was now informed that since his problems concerned travel outside Germany , he must first take a train as far as Cologne and go to the consulate there . |
| 13 | Apart from these , the two rival systems were more or less on a par as far as simplicity and accord with observations of planetary positions are concerned . |
| 14 | Although , long before Johnson , Daniel Defoe found Elgin ‘ a very agreeable place to live in ’ — those gentry not wishing to venture as far as Edinburgh or London came in from the Highlands for the winter — Elgin 's time came later : a half-century after our heroes ' visit , it became a little classical Victorian market town whose streets and suburbs echoed Edinburgh 's New Town in elegance and spaciousness . |
| 15 | I got as far as Grantchester and I thought , fuck it , yes , why not ? |
| 16 | Many of the knitting pattern diagrams are very simple shapes and make drawing up to full size and shaping , as far as armhole and neck , quite basic . |
| 17 | Elf clippers sailed as far as Nippon and Cathay in search of goods . |
| 18 | We are in a rapidly changing world as far as marriage and divorce are concerned . |
| 19 | Now , bearing in mind the very short space of time between now and the close of the enquiry , I want to be sure that as far as objectors and the council are concerned , that this is a course of action which is both acceptable and practical as far as they are concerned . |
| 20 | I followed the Awash as far as Bilen and then turned eastwards across the desert to Afdam on the railway . |
| 21 | ‘ You can go as far as Burnley if you 're old or disabled . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ We have a business plan as far as mid-1993 and are going professional by this Christmas . ’ |
| 23 | Across Europe , from the war-devastated areas of France and Germany as far as Greece and Italy , from Austria to Hungary , Poland , and Romania , Bischof carried his camera equipment and bundles of warm clothing for those in need , infinitely caring , attentive to all victims , but above all to children . |
| 24 | ‘ As far as I and the society is concerned that was a warm-blooded animal that can suffer pain and starvation , just like any human being , and we will not apologise for bringing it to the court 's attention , ’ he said . |
| 25 | The group has received donations from well-wishers from as far as Bangor and Holyhead . |
| 26 | This language , which formed the basis of Old Church Slavonic , was diffused throughout the Balkans and into central Europe , as far as Moravia and southern Poland , through the missionary activities of Constantine-Cyril and Methodius . |
| 27 | Applied to the artists showing at Brussels , the term could have no very definite meaning , and Apollinaire found it hard to identify many specific characteristics shared by the painters , or even to distinguish Cubism from Fauvism : ‘ One feature unites them , for if the principal merit of the painters who have been called the Fauves was the return to fundamental principles as far as colour and composition are concerned , the Cubists , in order to extend yet further the province of an art thus renewed , have sought to return to basic principles of drawing and inspiration . |
| 28 | As far as Paul and Granville are concerned , they 've already come an unfeasibly long way since they got together a couple of years ago at college in Derby . |
| 29 | As far as clothing and buildings are concerned , the " leprosy " is a mould , or fungus . |
| 30 | The first view we can call the " empiricist " , and derives from a philosophical tradition which reaches back as far as Aristotle and runs through more historically recent figures such as Bacon , Locke , Hume , J.S. Mill , and , in the twentieth century , the logical positivists and , latterly , the neo-realists . |