Example sentences of "[prep] as far [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well old was , was er absolute er you 'd never think anybody 'd would buy anything out of his shop , er my father went in for something once and he , and he said you can see them hanging up ca n't you , I mean er salesmanship was on unheard of as far as he was concerned they were there , why ask him if he 'd got any , but erm course you must remember I was only a little boy I mean I can remember all this , I took it all in but I would n't say that I knew them er I knew Miss , from the grocer 's shop she was a Sunday School teacher , and er the Sunday School used to be at Road School we used to have a Sunday School there and a Mr used to take this . |
| 2 | The great train was standing there , faintly hissing , silver , immensely heavy , stretching away in both directions for as far as one could see in the gloom . |
| 3 | She could n't reach very far , but for as far as she could , the window was clean , bright . |
| 4 | For as far as she could see there were no secret , unsafe corners . |
| 5 | For as far as I could see , the surface was bare , grey dirt — rocky , bumpy , ridged , pitted . |
| 6 | Generally speaking , things have gone about as far as they can possibly go when things have got about as bad as they reasonably get . |
| 7 | Slaughter 's description of this as ‘ whimsical ’ is about as far as her detached sense of scholarship allows her to go in appraising some of these eccentricities . |
| 8 | Raising the sums which will be required in the name of global environmental security during the next 50–60 years ( which is about as far as anyone can reasonably try to foresee ) will create severe political and economic stresses . |
| 9 | We went to the capital , Castries , for the afternoon 's festivities but arrived too late to see the round-the-town mile ( that 's about as far as it is ) . |
| 10 | Like a couple of chums , but that 's about as far as it goes . |
| 11 | Playing out of defence , however , was about as far as it went , though in the closing stages they produced the most sustained attacking football of the afternoon . |
| 12 | He agreed that I had gone about as far as I could go in Moose Jaw , and together we composed a night-letter telegram to Gladstone Murray in Ottawa requesting a reply to my job application . |
| 13 | I watch videos and read manga , and that 's about as far as I want to go . |
| 14 | I watch a lot of videos and read manga , and that 's about as far as I want to go . |
| 15 | That 's about as far as I 've got . ’ |
| 16 | This is taking a sense of the particular about as far as you can go : man evolving as harmoniously with his landscape as the mayfly nymph evolved in harmony with its stream . |
| 17 | She took a step backwards , which was about as far as she could go in that hallway . |
| 18 | Lying under that police car just now , he knew he had gone down about as far as he could go , had expected to be caught , done for . |
| 19 | ‘ Trusts you about as far as he could spit , ’ Bicker finished . |
| 20 | He looks guardedly back , from as far as he can lean away . |
| 21 | The development of such trading centres is only relevant here in as far as they point to the direction in which economy was evolving in the sixth and seventh centuries . |
| 22 | In as far as they existed at all , relations with these countries were conducted as between tributaries of the Chinese empire . |
| 23 | In as far as they were less likely to be increasingly forced to resort to bribery to obtain scant food supplies at a time when the official ration was totally inadequate , farmers were better off than their urban counterparts . |
| 24 | The power of decision being committed by the statute exclusively to the housing authority , their exercise of the power can only be challenged before the courts on the strictly limited grounds ( i ) that their decision was vitiated by bias or procedural unfairness ; ( ii ) that they have reached a conclusion of fact which can be impugned on the principles set out in the speech of Lord Radcliffe in Edwards v. Bairstow [ 1956 ] A.C. 14 ; or ( iii ) that , in as far as they have exercised a discretion ( as they may require to do in considering questions of reasonableness under section 17(1) ( 2 ) and ( 4 ) ) , the exercise can be impugned on the principles set out in the judgment of Lord Greene M.R. in Associated Provincial Picture Houses Ltd. v. Wednesbury Corporation [ 1948 ] 1 K.B . |
| 25 | In as far as there is an average Japanese , he or she is very much a town dweller . |
| 26 | In as far as anyone could hope to be in the bitterly envious soil of the SIS , Foley was unblemished . |
| 27 | ‘ You can wear whatever you want to as far as I 'm concerned . ’ |
| 28 | Yet not only had she not said anything but as far as he 'd been able to ascertain she had n't left him any lunch . |
| 29 | I just wish the Tories had some fresh ideas , precious few around as far as I can see . |