Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] far [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That too is a long way off , but nothing like as far as the stars . ’ |
| 2 | What I found , though , was that what appeared to be a very good erm system from an ideal point of view was actually terribly hard to cope with so far as the teachers were concerned . |
| 3 | For as far as the distant bluffs , the land is lost to prairie larks and prong-horned antelope . |
| 4 | She could see twigs scattered along the lane for as far as the car 's headlights reached . |
| 5 | Grazers have the enormous advantage that there is plenty of their favourite food available , all around them , stretching for as far as the eye can see and regrowing time and again regardless of how much they crop it . |
| 6 | And er , on that message , er , it seems , er good enough time to say that 's er , all we have time for as far as the phone calls are concerned on the Breakfast Call this morning . |
| 7 | On hearing this , the king gave orders for the fields around his castle to be planted with almond trees for as far as the eye could see . |
| 8 | In the men 's singles contest , managed to get through to the semi final while in the triples contest , and from Draught Stout joined from Brewing to win through as far as the semi finals . |
| 9 | This is about as far as the development of glues had got by the end of the war . |
| 10 | In so far as a stranger , on a brief visit supported by senior officials from the area , could judge the pupils were happy , receiving a balanced education and in most cases planning to follow in the family footsteps . |
| 11 | In so far as a government wants to have money to spend , it must be raised . |
| 12 | In so far as a timetable can be thought of as functioning like a rule it can be thought of as an instrument of order . |
| 13 | Finance was not , in fact , particularly in question , as Mr Maugham had provided for his family with a thoroughness that bordered upon the reckless — in so far as a man may squander upon insurance , he had done so . |
| 14 | In so far as a three year average is concerned , point b made by Mr and erm that being taken into account the tail end of the boom . |
| 15 | The LIFESPAN Process account is required only in so far as a suitable UIC must be available for running your LIFESPAN Processes . |
| 16 | The LIFESPAN Manager account is required only in so far as a VMS account with the privileges CMKRNL , SYSPRV , SYSNAM , DETACH , LOG_IO and WORLD must be available to start and stop LIFESPAN Processes and to undertake the administrative duties detailed in Section 3 of this guide . |
| 17 | But worse , at this point design can " no longer be aware of itself for to separate the social formative and communicative-representational functions is to reduce itself , to make its activity into a variation of technical activity , unimportant in itself , important only in so far as a problem can be solved through it , a product constructed . |
| 18 | First of all my physical world constrains me in so far as every other car will be travelling on the left-hand side and my progress might be somewhat impeded if I chose otherwise ; secondly , it is a rule that is being followed by every driver . |
| 19 | The Possessed looked for a long time like losing its way , and Dostoevsky would surely concede that in so far as the design was , to use his own word , tendentious , this was bound to be so . |
| 20 | In so far as the interview is a critique of Thatcherism — and that is not as far as might have been supposed from the headlines in yesterday 's papers — it is misplaced . |
| 21 | In so far as the actions since 1979 have politicized areas hitherto relatively immune to such considerations they provide pretexts for a future Labour government to intervene in these spheres . |
| 22 | A thorough and detailed biography of Arthur Henderson is also badly needed ; the recent short studies by F. M. Leventhal and Chris Wrigley add little , at least in so far as the events of 1931 are concerned . |
| 23 | Callinicos ' criticism of the ‘ postmodern ’ hypothesis contains a range of emphases , the three principal ones of which are : First : advocates of the postmodern in art ( which attains uncommon prominence in so far as the ‘ postmodern ’ is powerfully underwritten by a claimed distinction from Modernism ) , tend to misread the modern and arrogate its defining characteristics to their own period . |
| 24 | ‘ In so far as the patient was being phased off this treatment , ’ he had begun , pointing with the back of his pen to certain entries on Commander Barnwell 's chart , ‘ it would be technically correct to say that there has been a minor error . ’ |
| 25 | The range of permissible investments , for instance , is defined by statute in so far as the settlement makes no provision ; but , even within the limits of investment allowed by statute or settlement , a trustee may incur liability by want of due care in exercising his discretion . |
| 26 | The Christian view of life , death and afterlife as a continuum not only supplied a happy ending to the human story , but could also ‘ justify God 's ways to man ’ , in so far as the good man would be rewarded for a well-spent life , even if it seemed to have been dogged by misfortune . |
| 27 | This is another example of constructive liability , and it is particularly inappropriate here , in so far as the law is aiming to produce a ‘ ladder ’ of offences graded in terms of relative seriousness . |
| 28 | Certainly , in so far as the problems and needs of the disadvantaged areas are concerned , a more task orientated approach is required if measures are to be successful . |
| 29 | Allowing for exaggeration , it is nevertheless true to say that the Emperor lived up to the Idea in so far as the re-ordering of Paris was concerned . |
| 30 | Indeed , in so far as the law represents the embodiment of those rules deemed so important by society as to warrant setting them out formally with appropriate sanctions for non-observance , legal principles are the most important regulators of doctors ' decisions . |