Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [adv] far as " in BNC.

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1 Mrs Symons was , as a matter of fact , a frequent visitor to this house before the war ; indeed , she was among the most popular as far as the staff were concerned due to the kind appreciation she never shied from showing .
2 Second , in the NATO member states , the relative lack of formal restrictions has contributed to the public unease about defence policy , which is associated in people 's minds with threats of all-out nuclear war : far from assisting deterrence this situation is highly corrosive so far as effective defence and deterrence are concerned .
3 These were highly controversial so far as the implementation of the Regulation is concerned , with the British Department of National Heritage fearing an increase by 250,000 in export documents required by the antiquities trade , as all archaeological goods , even of no value , are required to have export papers .
4 But smoking was obviously kosher as far as this old bat went .
5 I have nothing against the article which prompted this letter , I just feel it is so out-of-date as far as fluids are concerned .
6 But i I did feel it was airing those possible scenarios to get a reaction and I think the forty minutes we 've had discussing that have been extremely valuable as far as we 're concerned .
7 Though the hoped-for explosion of educational television has not happened the effect has not been entirely negative as far as literacy goes .
8 Life is much less complicated as far as Building Regulations approval is concerned .
9 All these things , if I may say so , are entirely irrelevant so far as Dr Hill is concerned . ’
10 She wished she were n't so naïve as far as men were concerned .
11 And no matter how true that is in the natural sense , it is a , it is abundantly true as far as God is concerned .
12 The New Moon in your opposite sign of Scorpio on the 29th should prove exciting and rather eventful as far as one involvement or partnership is concerned — and obviously 1989 is by no means over yet , not by a long chalk .
13 It was this very situation — one where the workers themselves could take control of the struggle , organise and demand on their own behalf — which was not acceptable as far as the trade union bureaucracy and leadership were concerned .
14 This position is not heterodox so far as relinquo ( or , as it is here expressed , dimitto ) is concerned : Section i argued that the problem with it is precisely that it attributes property directly to a beneficiary rather than vesting it in a trustee .
15 Other important provisions of the Unfair Contract Terms Act relate to the implied terms under the Sale of Goods Act and similar legislation ; these will apply to computer hardware but will be largely irrelevant as far as computer software is concerned because computer software does not come within the definition of goods .
16 But so long as English law refuses to recognise that parent companies are under a legal as well as a moral obligation to meet the debts of their subsidiaries the group accounts are largely irrelevant so far as creditors are concerned since they normally have resort only against the individual company with which they have dealt .
17 so you know we 've actually been doing that is not new as far as we 're concerned
18 The area between the Severn and Stroud is perhaps one of the more interesting as far as Gloucestershire 's industrial heritage is concerned .
19 But it was still kosher as far as Albert Roger Quigley was concerned .
20 So it 's not a lot of lot of bother the only thing is that i you got ta drive in town rather than drive on country lanes to get to the main roads little bit more dangerous as far as getting caught is concerned ha !
21 Well he 's off sick as far as I know
22 ‘ She 's in the cottage hospital , still unconscious as far as I know — I 've left one of my boys there in case she comes to , but she 's running a high temperature and they 're afraid of bronchial pneumonia .
23 Well that was of the interesting things to come out of the study , erm something which was totally unexpected as far as I was concerned , and that was it seemed that the pupils in the mixed ability classes developed more slowly socially than the pupils in the streamed classes .
24 Well that was one of the interesting things to come out of the study , something which was totally unexpected as far as I was concerned , and that was it seemed that the pupils in the mixed ability classes developed more slowly socially than the pupils in the streamed classes .
25 Will these families be more symmetrical as far as the allocation of unpaid work is concerned ?
26 This book , therefore , is good and probably reliable as far as it goes .
27 ‘ Allowing for the recovery period is also important as far as the next cooking cycle is concerned .
28 The thesis of ‘ The intentional fallacy ’ , that the meaning of the words in a text is , and should be treated as , a matter of public knowledge , seems wholly unexceptionable as far as the dictionary-definition ( the ‘ denotation ’ ) of words is concerned ; but it seems much more problematic when one takes account of the broader associations that words carry with them ( ‘ connotations ’ ) .
29 In 1931 , however , they were all still comparatively innocent as far as publication was concerned .
30 The general social and political advantages of the newly enlarged audiences were obvious but in cultural terms what was really significant as far as the subsequent history of the movies was concerned was that the showmen who made and presented the movies were no longer thinking in terms of a homogeneous or class audience .
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