Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] as far [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although his voice failed to carry as far as those of the Academicians ' , there was no possibility of failing to recognize the message . |
| 2 | I actually wanted to that I did n't really want to go as far as for example deciding that the chair what they are voting would be within the resources available to the . |
| 3 | Meanwhile government forces had consolidated their positions deep inside UNITA territory near Mavinga , a strategic UNITA base , which the government claimed to have captured in February following heavy fighting , and sought to penetrate as far as the rebel headquarters at Jamba . |
| 4 | Sylvia Pedder sometimes has to go as far as Cumbria to see her relatives . |
| 5 | Unable to find work after leaving the army , which he joined at 16 , he has travelled as far as Holland in search of a job — but to no avail . |
| 6 | In the Midlands it is the tree one sees most often : and for a brief spell in early sum-mer it is the most beautiful of all the Midland trees , with its continuous miles of white may blossom glimmering as far as the eye can see . |
| 7 | ( 6 ) Dotted instead of full lines give another range of meaning if you want to sub-divide as far as that . |
| 8 | Anyone who has got as far as saying this , has already thrown the first proposition overboard , because if it is ‘ the responsibility of management to do everything possible to keep prices stable or reduce prices ’ , then we would not need a commission to tell us that managements which raise prices are falling down on their responsibility . |
| 9 | Thank you Mr Mayor I just wanted t to come in with two fairly quick points er as to why I will not be able to support this amendment , but the first is that the leader of the council has indicated that the efficiency savings erm has got as far as it can go and that , you know , we have been trimming at the margins and there is no more margin left and that leads you to believe that perhaps one should be looking at somewhat more er root and branch type of pruning in the spending that that the labour group want to actually erm deal with , er and the second point I would like to make , and er I thank councillor for giving us a a a a new word tonight obfuscation because that describes exactly what I think the labour group are trying to do by bringing this figure down it removes the embarrassment they would have from having to add on a substantial sum of money f due to the failure to collect the cou er the community charge in previous years and I think that they are trying by by this amendment with some very quick foot work to try and delude the people of this city . |
| 10 | Yet , even here , there is a puzzle , a strange , unplaceable something which does n't quite fit with that account of the gradual driving out of the reader and the suggestion of a steady shift towards the rare and the difficult , for I would guess that anyone not put off in advance by suspicion or hearsay , anyone that is who has got as far as dipping into Ulysses , say , will have come hard up against things that are startlingly , even discomfortingly , recognisable . |
| 11 | I return to Summerchild , who has retreated as far as laughter will stretch and found nothing . |
| 12 | Secondly , in the Fearon case it was not the right to exercise an economic activity which was conditional on the shareholders ' satisfying the residence requirement , but merely immunity from compulsory acquisition measures adopted under legislation governing the ownership of rural land designed to ensure as far as possible that the land belonged to those who worked it . |
| 13 | José Harris has gone as far as to describe the dispute as ‘ a major conflict of principle ’ between the two boards . |
| 14 | Barclay 's has gone as far as to create a ‘ high technology ’ unit to examine requests for finance from possible customers . |
| 15 | The British Property Federation ( BPF ) has gone as far as not only producing its own system for dealing with projects but , in liaison with the ACA ( Association of Consultant Architects ) , producing its own standard building contract to suit its system . |
| 16 | Eire is planning to use its forthcoming Presidency of the European Commission to press Britain to embark on a major upgrading of road and rail links between North Wales and the Channel Tunnel , and the Shadow Irish Transport Minister Gay Mitchell has gone as far as proposing an Irish Sea Tunnel to be constructed using Channel Tunnel equipment and an allegedly largely Irish Channel Tunnel workforce . |
| 17 | As the years unfold , the penny will drop in the general council of the CBI , as much as on the commuter trains from Basildon , that the whole market-based experiment has gone as far as it can — and the new need is for a government and policies that actively manage the instability and short-termism of the British economy . |
| 18 | In reaching 24 processor configurations , Pyramid says it has gone as far as it can with the R3000 . |
| 19 | These may stem from hormonal changes in the woman , from social pressures , from changes in marital or parental role , from career considerations ( especially in the man , who may realise that , at this stage of life , he has gone as far as he is likely to go ) and/or from other causes . |
| 20 | Here above all he or she has to organize as far as possible a staff consensus , to present it to the governors and to explain any requests for modification back to the staff — and then if necessary to carry out the modification . |
| 21 | The study of the distribution of exotic imported goods within England has extended as far as noting that there are two basic patterns to their distribution , apparently depending on their sources , and that particular areas or individual cemeteries have disproportionately high quantities of some of these goods . |
| 22 | The plume of smoke from these fires now covers about 15,000 square kilometres ( 5,800 square miles ) and has drifted as far as Iran . |
| 23 | By ten I 'd crawled as far as the door . |
| 24 | I 'd got as far as the top step on that flight when the phone went again . |
| 25 | A few minutes later , when she 'd got as far as wrapping herself in her host 's dressing-gown , Penry Vaughan knocked loudly on the door . |
| 26 | As it was , an irrelevant image kept popping up in the comer of his eye , dragging his attention away : the image of an old man Iying slumped in the mud against a wall of concrete blocks , turned away , as though death were an act as shameful as intercourse or defecation , which he had sought to conceal as far as possible , even in the bleakly exposed place where it had come to him . |
| 27 | However , there are fears that the chancellor will not dare go as far as his critics wish and instead stick to a one per cent cut . |
| 28 | Anyway , the point is this that I am going to say as far as I 'm concerned I 'm gon na put all my maximum ability in making sure that this government stands by its obligation which it gave me when I wrote to the Prime Minister because I was very very concerned that I did not want to see the old people and pensioners who was having difficulty in making ends meet , suffer further and therefore I am with you when it comes to concerning yourself in relation to the O A P's or the pensioners or any one who is suffering because of the s seventeen and o half percent , the maximum is put on . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Information handling is a highly demanding exercise as far as computers are concerned — much more demanding than carrying out complex calculations — and at the present time micros do not provide the kind of flexibility and robustness which is required . |