Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] [adv] far [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Folk said only trust foreigners as far as th'could see 'em — no further .
2 The texture of a school may be made up of old-fashioned and perhaps idealized certainties as far as parents are concerned .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 I certainly could n't afford to waste petrol chasing rainbows as far as Leeds and back .
7 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 .
8 This is fine so far as it goes , but even Marxist approaches have not always taken things as far as they should go .
9 That bias towards comfort has meant compromises as far as sporting handling is concerned ; so you do n't have to put up with a jittery ride over poorly made up roads .
10 In Bursa , Seyh Mehmed-i Cezeri and Semseddin Fenari and Molla Yegane [ sic ] and his son Yusuf Bali and Bahaeddin Omer and Yar-Ali-i Sirazi and Hoca-zade and Husam-zade and Ali Celebi and Mufti Ahmed Pasa gave fetvas as far as the year 929 [ 1552–3 ] ; in Edirne , Molla Haydar-i Acemi and the aforementioned Molla Fahreddin and Molla Abdulkerim and Umm Veled [ gave fetvas ] ; and Molla Gurani and Molla Ali-i Arab , and [ Ali ] Cemali became independent muftis in Istanbul …
11 This last choice is desirable but it only delays things so far as getting home is concerned , since the forest road stops on the frontier some three miles away , and there you can but turn round .
12 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 .
13 It seems to me that they all have implications so far as people 's lives are concerned — their activities , their rewarding work , in a sense .
14 The characteristic feature of Brindley 's canals was their winding routes , following contours as far as possible without involving major earthworks .
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