Example sentences of "far as [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He reduced wives , children and servants to the status of ‘ things ’ so far as their relation to husband/father in the family is concerned . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | 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 ’ . |
| 35 | As far as their usefulness as a measure of performance the conclusion that should be reached is that none is superior as we can only measure performance by comparison . |
| 36 | There are over protective parents and there are those that will defend the indefensible as far as their children are concerned . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | 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 . ’ |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | Nothing in soft conventionalism guarantees , or even promotes , the ideal of protected expectations , that past decisions will be relied on to justify collective force only so far as their authority and their terms are made uncontroversial by widely accepted conventions . |
| 42 | As far as their training and qualifications were concerned , one-third had no qualifications at all and less than half had obtained basic school qualifications . |
| 43 | According to tests with the missile in the US , of the missiles that successfully penetrate as far as their target , half will land within about 12 m of the aiming point . |
| 44 | As far as her friends were concerned she worked as a translator at the United Nations . |
| 45 | As far as her friends were concerned , she was a translator at the United Nations . |
| 46 | Sin was sex ; pride , avarice , gluttony had no place as far as her life was concerned . |
| 47 | Especially from the Seven Years War in 1757 , the wars in which Britain was involved may have been European and dynastic in origin , but so far as her struggle with France was concerned , they were global in breadth . |
| 48 | It had been granted grudgingly and she knew she was on thin ice as far as her superiors were concerned . |
| 49 | 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 ? |
| 50 | I said , ‘ Did you hear me giving her a puff as far as her policies were concerned ? |
| 51 | He left the cosy little restaurant to reappear a few minutes later with the announcement that her taxi was at the door and that he and Bob would go with her as far as her hotel . |
| 52 | They gleamed not only about Mama 's neck but tumbled almost as far as her waist — and could seem all different colours . |
| 53 | Far as her Future vaults her skies , |
| 54 | Objectively , Karen was prepared to go almost as far as her predecessor , and her eager greed more than made up for the thrill I used to get from subjecting dogged , cow-like Manuela to the same routines . |
| 55 | In other words , a child with an MLU which falls below the bottom of this range is relatively unusual in so far as her MLU is lower than about 85 per cent of ordinary children . |
| 56 | She did not even go as far as her room — the sound of the door being unlocked , opening and closing again should surely not carry down to the hall . |
| 57 | You are innocent as far as Her Majesty 's Government is concerned . |
| 58 | Jane Cox was 21 , attractive , single and hardworking in so far as her condition allowed . |
| 59 | He gazed at her shapely legs , exposed as far as her thighs . |
| 60 | Ann thought it unseemly to kiss her husband in public , but she had no such reservations as far as her son was concerned , and hugged him tight , choking on her words as she whispered to him to take care of himself . |