Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] [adv] far [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Comparable buildings are also visible from the air north of the defences as far as the River Nene , apart from the low-lying Billing Brook area . |
| 2 | first , the existing local authorities argued for the retention of the status quo ; second , some Conservative Members of Parliament sought to retain the existing system as far as possible in such areas as Surrey ; third , groups concerned with some services — particularly education — pointed out weaknesses in the proposals as far as their service was concerned ( Rhodes 1970 : 120 ) . |
| 3 | Professor Greve says the Conservative Government moved the goalposts as far as council house building was concerned . |
| 4 | ‘ None of the calls have hit me between the eyes so far as the vital piece of information , but I 'm still hopeful that what we need may be in there , ’ he said . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | About 300 metres of each , I 've torn to make the covers so far but I 'm still doing it because each one has to be the right size and colour-coded by room . |
| 7 | The intention is thus to narrow the matters in dispute between the parties so far as possible and , in theory at least , to give both parties advance notice of what the other case is . |
| 8 | When you have filled all the gaps as far as possible , you can start work on the insulating wall . |
| 9 | ( b ) On the other hand the courts will not carry a literal construction of the articles so far as to defeat their obvious purpose . |
| 10 | This makes little difference to the behaviour of the companies so far as the production of policies and their conduct of business are concerned , but it does impose further constraints on the marketing of what are now clearly seen as forms of saving . |
| 11 | The final four columns of Table 11.1 give details of the financial position of the companies as far as this could be discerned from published data . |
| 12 | When the carrier acknowledges that he holds for and on behalf of the buyer , e.g. by accepting and acting upon the buyer 's instructions not to convey the goods as far as their original destination or to convey them to a further destination , or |
| 13 | She had been completely open about testing the waters as far as a change of job was concerned . |
| 14 | Some built sturdily of wood and iron , others no more than skins of plastic sheeting over frames of branches , they straggled north over the dunes as far as I could see . |
| 15 | The Department of the Environment ( DoE , the central government department with overall responsibility for local government in England ) was , he says , trapped into the position of being both the advocate of local services within the centre and the guardian of the purse-strings as far as local government was concerned ( in that respect the Secretary of State acted as a sort of ‘ mini chancellor ’ ) ( Rhodes , 1986 , p. 238 ) . |
| 16 | The publication of a statement of compliance with the code , reviewed by the auditors so far as compliance can be objectively verified , is to be made a listing requirement by the Stock Exchange . |
| 17 | These 10 practices were selected to match the controls as far as possible in terms of practice size , location , and main provider unit . |
| 18 | He had questioned Ashenden in detail for several minutes about the crucial phone call with Kemp , and asked him to write down in dialogue-form the exchanges as far as he could recall them . |
| 19 | They went round the coasts as far as the Carthaginians allowed them to go . |
| 20 | Now what were the limits so far as the Vietnam war was concerned ? |
| 21 | Now what were the limits so far as the Vietnam war was concerned ? |
| 22 | No no I make the decisions as far as finance is concerned . |
| 23 | However , where such transplantation has been attempted , the results as far as productivity is concerned have not been as dramatic as management academics had expected ( Cole 1980 ) . |
| 24 | Just for the hell of it last night I thought I ‘ d go through the scores so far and pick the best possible legal team . |
| 25 | The World Wide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) , Friends of the Earth ( FoE ) and Living Earth are all environmental action groups involved in preserving the rainforests as far as possible . |
| 26 | What the local authority wished to do under the interim care order was assess the mother with these children and protect the children so far as the father was concerned . |
| 27 | simplified the systems as far as possible |
| 28 | Three weeks ago , the 102nd Airborne Division , Russian-trained and regarded as a crack unit , was rushed from its base at Asmara to the front line , but it too has been mauled by the rebels , who swept through the mountains flanking the main road , capturing all the towns as far as Woldiya . |
| 29 | What was the main problem with the Roses as far as Andy was concerned ? |
| 30 | I merely want to open all the doors as far as they will go at the moment . ’ |