Example sentences of "far as [noun prp] [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 You do n't go as far as Church Hill !
3 Well you do n't go as far as Church Hill then .
4 In his grandfather 's time the City had stretched only as far as Ch'ung Ch'ing .
5 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 .
6 ‘ As far as Marshal Tolonen is concerned , these things do not exist .
7 As far as Fri Fri is concerned , running costs are equal to half a penny for every pound of fried product , ’ he says .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 Few could go so far as Musurus Pasha , who during his thirty-five years as Turkish ambassador in London staffed the embassy entirely with his sons , nephews and sons-in-law ; but even in the most developed states of western Europe and on the eve of the 1914 conflict family influences could still be important .
11 The logic is clear and has roots that go back as far as Adam Smith , the father of economic liberalism or free market capitalism .
12 Yeo Davis , evidently , c'est moi as far as Peter Yeo was concerned .
13 That put the tin lid on it as far as Patrick Kelly was concerned .
14 Like clings to like , and in so far as Hilary Frome had friends of his own age — mostly he had followers — those friends were Willis and Quigly .
15 At seven o'clock on a chilly Saturday evening in November , the shroud of darkness enveloping it was a kindness as far as Captain Roddy Simcox was concerned .
16 After the unveiling ceremony a special train hauled by No 2 The Countess went as far as Castle Caereinion before returning to Raven Square .
17 They occupied sites along the course of the Water of Leith past Canonmills and up as far as Dean Village .
18 Both parents were able to devote a great deal of time to their son , walking with him in the park or going for carriage drives , sometimes as far as La Malmaison , for which Napoleon III had a special affection because of its links with his mother and grandmother .
19 As far as Professor Greaves is aware , Graham 's case is quite unique .
20 Certainly as far as South Yorkshire is concerned , again we would have to say that the linkage social soc socioeconomic linkage between Greater York a and South Yorkshire er is very limited .
21 Even you must admit that it 's become an exciting and extremely important job over the last few years , certainly as far as Carlisle Flint is concerned ! ’
22 It is also worthy of note that East Prussian amber was being traded among hunter-fisher communities over extensive tracts of Finland , the East Baltic countries and north-east Russia as far as Lake Onega and the Upper Volga , as well as up and down the coast of western Norway , at a time when Neolithic farming communities were being established in south Scandinavia .
23 Blackpool had been keen to develop the Promenade tramway as far as St. Annes , but this was defeated and the blue buses took over .
24 wished to persuade the Company to build the Mitcham — Sutton line included in their original powers and then permit them to run over it as far as St. Helier , as an extension of their Mitcham service .
25 All these things , if I may say so , are entirely irrelevant so far as Dr Hill is concerned . ’
26 Without using any money , some of the escapees got as far as North Wales , Yorkshire , and Scotland .
27 The work started in northern Scotland and has progressed southwards as far as North Wales .
28 As far as Lloyd Webber is concerned , there is only one contender — his ex-wife Sarah Brightman — to play the part of Rose .
29 So I bus-hopped into the City and took the Central Line as far as Bond Street .
30 If he did not go quite so far as Eric Linklater in believing that what Mary was doing down at Kirk o' Field during the last days of Darnley 's life in February 1567 was indulging a ‘ womanly zeal for nursing ’ , he certainly had no doubt of her innocence .
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