Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [adv] far as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Folk said only trust foreigners as far as th'could see 'em — no further . |
| 2 | We got a few laughs and the local press gave me a good write-up , and the church warden came to me and he said to me ‘ Frank , you should be an actor , ’ and I thought God had spoken because in those days , he was representing God as far as I was concerned … . |
| 3 | In the year A.D. 43 , Emperor Claudius sent an army under Aulus Plautius , who quickly subdued Kent as far as the Medway where again the British forces gathered to oppose the Romans . |
| 4 | The texture of a school may be made up of old-fashioned and perhaps idealized certainties as far as parents are concerned . |
| 5 | This may be connected to the fact that the youngsters came bottom as far as hugs were concerned , as 57pc said their parents hugged them compared with a national average of 70pc . |
| 6 | ‘ Beineix dares much , pushing farce as far as it will go while simultaneously building the momentum that catapults the film into its tragic destination . |
| 7 | Later generations spread south as far as the tip of South America ; later still they reached similar latitudes in southern New Zealand . |
| 8 | The main emphasis was on encouraging the use of evidence extracted from former Mafia members , who would now give evidence as far as possible in front of the judge alone [ for other provisions see p. 38979 ] . |
| 9 | The basic philosophy involves farming as far as possible within a closed system : in a nutshell , growing crops to feed the animals and using the manure those animals produce to fertilize the soil in order to grow more crops . |
| 10 | I would not be interested in leaving Middlesbrough until I have got Middlesbrough as far as Middlesbrough can go . ’ |
| 11 | It was even more important to know when evil gods would be in charge so as to avoid trouble as far as possible by doing nothing at such times . |
| 12 | The object of the court in interpreting legislation is to give effect so far as the language permits to the intention of the legislature . |
| 13 | The designer attempts to reduce friction as far as possible , so most stepping motor systems have very little inherent damping and consequently a poorly.damped single-step response . |
| 14 | This analysis will have relevance as far as the passing of property and risk is concerned ( see Chapter 10 ) where the goods are damaged in the meantime ( Clarke v Reilly ( 1962 ) 96 ILTR 96 ) . |
| 15 | Suffice it to say that whatever the Court of Appeal 's finding there are likely to be significant procedural and resource implications as far as the administration of the complaints system is concerned and these will have to be explored during the coming year . |
| 16 | All students are urged to pursue these performing studies as far as the acquisition of a Teacher 's Diploma of one of the recognised colleges of music and , in suitable cases , to proceed to a Performer 's Diploma . |
| 17 | Newman had spent three days at the hotel in Walberswick — mainly to attend the inquest but also to soothe Evelyn as far as he could . |
| 18 | The canal superseded the Kennet Navigation early in the nineteenth century , linking it with the River Avon at Bath , so that Somerset coal could be brought east as far as Reading by water . |
| 19 | Well for my own part I think that one can educate students as far as possible in terms of what appropriate behaviour is , and I think that you can police students with disciplinary measures when it 's absolutely clear that when they know what the inappropriate behaviour is they nevertheless make a choice that they 're going to move beyond those boundaries of appropriateness . |
| 20 | Later , Burgess was to tell friends that he had only intended to accompany Maclean as far as Prague before returning to London . |
| 21 | The Stephanian transgresses from the north over Westphalian C and D with a long tongue reaching south as far as Bentheim : the so called Ems Low . |
| 22 | Darwin 's concept of evolution may hold water as far as it goes , but without the inclusion of an omnipotent ‘ Master Mind ’ , working from outside to plan the possibility of purposeful development , it makes no sense to me at all . |
| 23 | When he asked , then , ‘ What has Ingeld to do with Christ ? ’ , he was using Ingeld as an example of the most extreme gap between good ‘ heroic ’ behaviour and good Christian behaviour ; Ingeld took unforgivingness as far as it could go . |
| 24 | Before the days of radio , boats like her would race down-channel as far as the Lizard to get first contact for the ship-to-shore trade from vessels making port . |
| 25 | I certainly could n't afford to waste petrol chasing rainbows as far as Leeds and back . |
| 26 | Then she turned to Xanthe whom she could avoid kissing , to keep her unbathed body away from the young girl 's groomed presence as far as she was able without coldness . |
| 27 | Only in the last ten or so years has it been realized that infection can be spread quite easily by these practices and may pose problems as far as treatment is concerned . |
| 28 | It 's a matter of fact that the strategy of the county council is to locate development as far as possible in and around the main settlements of the county . |
| 29 | This is fine so far as it goes , but even Marxist approaches have not always taken things as far as they should go . |
| 30 | Possibly , there are one or two apparent links between Miller and myself which I have not yet tackled , but most of these are mere trimmings , minor coincidences , or the accidental pen droppings , as it were , of an already admitted indolence so far as ‘ research ’ on unimportant detail is concerned . |