Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [adv] far [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in so doing , we must , of course , be aware of the risk of setting a standard which goes so far that it would mean that others — for example , the senile or the mentally handicapped , whom we would wish to treat if they were ill — were also included by it . |
| 2 | You would not think so after reading the paper by Deborah Tannen , of Georgetown University , whose study of repetition in conversation in Language for 1987 she goes so far as to subtitle ‘ towards a poetic of talk ’ . |
| 3 | She has as far as pictures are concerned Rich . |
| 4 | She says as far as pensioners are concerned some will get hypothermia . |
| 5 | But I do not believe that one goes as far as going to the figure that the County Council is proposing . |
| 6 | It goes as far as it can and waits there for a while , its big eyes staring up , tantalized . |
| 7 | We do not believe , however , that it goes as far as is necessary in embracing demand management and sustainability . |
| 8 | We do not believe , however , that it goes as far as is necessary in embracing demand management and sustainability . |
| 9 | I would wager that he goes so far as to say that I broke down in his room , stuttering out the words of my so-called confession between chokes and tears , unable to speak properly . |
| 10 | He goes so far as to claim that this form of control is now ‘ characteristic of the majority of enterprises in the USA and Britain ’ , thereby denying the predominance of the management control form . |
| 11 | His opinions , he knows , are not shared by fellow portrait painters — he goes so far as to describe ‘ the rest ’ as producing ‘ old hat , boring , herd-of-sheep painting ’ , too preoccupied with imbuing a portrait with the sitter 's character . |
| 12 | Blondel in his study Political Parties : A Genuine Case for Discontent ? claims that " in the great majority of cases programmes are unclear , often limited in scope , and not closely connected to the goals which the party proclaims " and he goes so far as to assert that " on balance parties do not really have programmes " . |
| 13 | If it gets as far as a decision , it will prove the leading case for some time on the thorny issue of what duty regulators owe the customers of the regulated . |
| 14 | It avoids so far as possible those terms of art which have acquired a special meaning understood only by lawyers in which many of the penal enactments which it supersedes were couched . |
| 15 | Suggest he advances as far as the stream and stops them there , but make it a tactful suggestion . |
| 16 | Certainly it does as far as the naked eye is concerned . |
| 17 | But the real wage is what matters so far as jobs are concerned . |
| 18 | What happens as far as patients in hospital are concerned Ann when it comes to an election ? |
| 19 | And I think there 's a big difference between you talking about what happens as far as forestry is concerned and actually what some of the logging companies are up to . |
| 20 | Erm your worships as far as the personal circumstances are concerned she is fifty nine years old , she has n't worked for the last three years she 's in receipt of invalidity benefit similarly her husband who has n't worked for the last ten or eleven years er , is on invalidity benefit . |