Example sentences of "[noun] as far [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there are some bright spots on the horizon–what occurs as June gets underway should have an amazing effect as far as your worldly ambitions , happiness and general well-being are concerned . |
| 2 | She straightened , stretching her neck as far as it would go , meeting his eyes , if not levelly , at least unwaveringly , as he answered , ‘ A romantic go-between is someone who helps set up romantic meetings . |
| 3 | I said , ‘ Did you hear me giving her a puff as far as her policies were concerned ? |
| 4 | These were tubed to two bottles of pale green dye which , under weighted pressure , travelled up the lymph channels as far as my lower abdomen , filling the infected nodes , thus making any change in size or behaviour easy to spot on X-ray . |
| 5 | ‘ Chest pain , sudden onset as far as I know , collapse — she 's now arrhythmic , possibly fibrillating . ’ |
| 6 | The sooner Sizewell C is built the better as far as we 're concerned . |
| 7 | They set out up the hillside , going slowly , picking their way from one bush and tussock to another and pausing continually to sniff and stare along the great expanse of grass , which stretched on either side as far as they could see . |
| 8 | For one awful moment , she thought she had persuaded her , then , with a cry of triumph , Rose hurled the ring as far as she could into the surrounding darkness . |
| 9 | You feel a soft click through your fingers before you have pressed a key as far as it will go . |
| 10 | We in the Royal Air Force , if you ask for our professional advice , are convinced that we will require manned aircraft as far as we can see to supplement the missile in both the offensive and defensive roles . |
| 11 | Instead , I propose taking the logic of generic concentration as far as it can go , with a degree which would study , in detail , a single genre , poetry . |
| 12 | It was the end of cabaret as far as we were concerned . |
| 13 | No , it was clothes for the living as far as I was concerned . |
| 14 | That the king yielded to the resulting complaints of the clergy as far as he did might be explained by his preoccupations in Paris when he could hardly afford serious embarrassment at home ; yet it seems more likely that he recognized the powerful tradition by which the matters in conflict were long deemed to have belonged rightfully to the church . |
| 15 | Then he hurled it off the roof as far as he could , shouting at the top of his voice a threat to all evil spirits : warning them that tonight was the night they must leave the village for good . |
| 16 | Our basic goal is to modify both methods as far as we can to reduce these limitations , and then combine both approaches to converge on the linguistic system we hope to describe . |
| 17 | Everyone went away thoroughly entertained , but it was a very disappointing result as far as we are concerned . ’ |
| 18 | He never had any long-term physical relationships as far as I know . |
| 19 | This is an important question , one which we were not able to pursue in our research as far as we would have liked . |
| 20 | I 'm an irrelevance as far as she 's concerned . |
| 21 | Once Auntie Jean did rip through to raw feeling by mentioning the numerous virtues of her former Tory boy , but Ted retaliated by saying ( one evening during his vow of silence ) , ‘ That boy soon saw the light as far as you 're concerned , did n't he ? ’ |
| 22 | Sir Anthony had concluded his business with the plump lawyer as far as he was able to overcome his distaste for discussing deals or mentioning money , and he was holding back the brambles for her , as it were , letting her into their company , and she butted through , a young dog again , let out for a walk . |
| 23 | Now , up to now we 've met , it 's probably a step forward but it will need careful monitoring because there is utter confusion as far as I 'm concerned with , I do n't know whether Apex is a sister union with us or a section and I do n't think Apex know the difference themselves . |
| 24 | The first thing that strikes me is that my aunt — an almost complete stranger as far as I was concerned — should have been there at all , within the family circle where no friend or neighbour was allowed , and thus in a privileged position to make personal remarks of the type which would not have been tolerated from any other quarter . |
| 25 | The trees over Three Island Pond bent to the left with its force , and Creggan saw from the shadows that such ducks as were visible were taking shelter on the lee of the islands , bunching together for warmth and sinking their necks and heads as far as they could into their breast feathers . |
| 26 | A host state may restrict the activities of a financial institution as far as it is justified by the general good . |
| 27 | But he was an American citizen , born in the States as far as I can make out . ’ |
| 28 | We have examined these processes in three different areas : perception as far as it can be determined from neurophysiological and laterality studies , remembering in a short-term memory context , and organisation in recall as it occurs in story-telling . |
| 29 | ‘ Beineix dares much , pushing farce as far as it will go while simultaneously building the momentum that catapults the film into its tragic destination . |
| 30 | ‘ Also there is no dispute between the 1964 Company and the FR as far as we are concerned . |