Example sentences of "[noun] as far as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , it is still advisable to train your dog to defecate on command as far as possible . |
| 2 | In the summary table the tasks are briefly described in words as far as possible . |
| 3 | He did see himself very much as a responsible figure as far as other people 's well being was concerned when it came to this , and this was probably based on the fact that his step-brother , Terry , by his mother 's previous marriage , was classified as schizophrenic , a problem which David felt could be hereditary . ’ |
| 4 | The acceptance of tidied-up urban commons as an alternative to mown grass may be well in the future as far as most local authorities are concerned . |
| 5 | SELLAFIELD is used to being the Aunt Sally of the nuclear industry as far as some sections of the Press are concerned . |
| 6 | Some directors were of course friends of administration , and used their powers of patronage as far as possible to supplement the efforts of government , but others , and notably the Elphinstone family , used their Indian patronage to sustain an opposition to Henry Dundas in Scotland . |
| 7 | For practical and economic reasons , therefore and in general , the main objective of systematic cleaning will be to reduce the use of manual labour as far as possible and to substitute other forms of energy mainly chemical . |
| 8 | Local authorities now support elderly people in their own homes as far as possible , or in the local authority homes in the areas in which they live , so that they may be near to relatives and friends and their old associations . |
| 9 | Its universality as far as human life is concerned depends on when it actually happened , and we can do no more than guess at the date . |
| 10 | There is absolutely no whitewash as far as this Government are concerned , and nor will there be . |
| 11 | Despite the school 's stated intention to involve parents as far as possible , I seriously doubted whether Mr or Mrs Singh would be capable or prepared to enter into the kind of partnership the school envisaged . |
| 12 | The final four columns of Table 11.1 give details of the financial position of the companies as far as this could be discerned from published data . |
| 13 | This approach is difficult to reconcile with the principle of supremacy of Community law and would not seem to be the correct way to apply the principle of indirect effect the duty of the national courts to interpret national law as far as possible to bring it into line with Community obligations . |
| 14 | whether the provisions in question were adopted before or after the Directive , a national court must interpret the national law as far as possible in the light and wording of the Directive in order to achieve the aims of the Community law . |
| 15 | Vary your walk home from work as far as possible . |
| 16 | When you have filled all the gaps as far as possible , you can start work on the insulating wall . |
| 17 | He says : ‘ You 've got a very considerable amount of money at stake as far as British industry is concerned , and you 've got jobs at stake . |
| 18 | That is probably an impossible dream as far as this present government is concerned . |
| 19 | The broad lines of advice had in fact already been established : the deflection of arterial traffic from built-up areas as far as practicable ; failing this , traffic should be either elevated or sunken when passing through urban areas ; vehicles , cyclists and pedestrians should be segregated on important traffic routes ; frontage access should be restricted ; fly-over crossings should be provided . |
| 20 | It then compares the costs incurred for control samples with those of action sample clients , and finally examines the most important question as far as this project is concerned : whether those who were sustained at home with project support for six or l2 months after their referral to the psychogeriatrician cost more , less , or about the same to keep at home compared with the cost of institutional care ( taking into account the probability of their being in an institution were it not for the project support ) . |
| 21 | You have the County Council sitting on an absolute goldmine as far as that land 's concerned . |
| 22 | This annual service charge is an object of some suspicion as far as many would-be buyers are concerned , and in some countries there is legislation to protect buyers against developers who set the charge low initially and then raise it excessively later . |
| 23 | He reckons wise men do n't need to bother much with the truth as far as ordinary mortals are concerned . |
| 24 | The attempt now is to provide care on a community rather than an institutional basis , on the assumption that it is good to retain the mentally disordered within the community as far as possible and help to rehabilitate and reintegrate those who have had to go into hospitals for treatment . |
| 25 | Ultraviolet light is a mixed blessing as far as living things are concerned . |
| 26 | The exact role of sleep is uncertain , but , in humans as in other animals , it is a very active process as far as electrical activity in the brain is concerned . |
| 27 | Must we , in other words , accept an ultimate sexual apartheid as far as ethical values are concerned ? |
| 28 | There is a third route which , bearing in mind our concept of multimedia existing within a single , digital environment , is not strictly an exercise in multimedia as far as this study is concerned . |
| 29 | While such views are common doctrine in grammars as far as finite forms are concerned , it will be proposed here that a support or person is also present in the infinitival form of the verb , even though the latter can neither be predicated grammatically of a subject nor take any personal endings . |
| 30 | This as far as this is my personal opinion as far as that claim is concerned , that that is totally and utterly valid . |