Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] far as [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But only so far as this : that the Pioneers did not in fact succeed in creating the Manufacturing Society as a Co-operative . |
| 2 | There is one poem in which the I dominates to a remarkable extent and which , since it has been read literally , might seem an exception to my argument , namely 62 : If one reads only as far as this point , or reads the rest of the poem inattentively , one might indeed take this as an attack by the poet on his own narcissism . |
| 3 | Large-scale industrialization and urbanization were bad enough as far as most Basque Nationalists were concerned ; even worse was the descent upon their homeland of tens of thousands of ‘ Spanish ’ immigrant workers , many of whom were affiliated to the Socialist UGT . |
| 4 | No , at least not as far as that will have been changed by CATE . |
| 5 | The Sound of Music : Newcastle Theatre Royal ANY production of this popular classic has its work cut out as far as most critics are concerned . |
| 6 | When the handicap player copies the picture and ‘ freezes ’ his movement , he might as well only swing back as far as that . |
| 7 | The Flower of Chivalry did not go quite so far as that . |
| 8 | Again Balfour 's account is in substantial agreement , although he adds the gloss that when , at one stage in his summing up he referred to his assumption that Asquith would not serve under either Law or Lloyd George , Asquith intervened to say that he had not gone quite so far as that ; he must consult his friends before giving a final answer . |
| 9 | My principal concern here , however , is to observe that the phenomenon of the fired word-pair is a contra-indication of the parallelism of greater precision — at least as far as those words are concerned . |
| 10 | And at Wyvis Hall , below the woods and above the river , with the nearest road half a mile away and the nearest house twice as far as that , total silence prevailed . |
| 11 | The standard weapon of an infantryman in the British army , a type of camera and the latest aid to computer games playing may all share the same initials but that 's about as far as any similarity between them can be made to stretch . |
| 12 | Then , serious again , he continued soberly , ‘ Anyway , as I wuz sayin' , I do n't think we 've anythin' to worry about as far as this Angel One fella 's concerned . |
| 13 | No-one else had gone quite as far as that , and the self-conscious Thiercelin had tried to look as if Lefevre was nothing to do with him . |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't think things have got quite as far as that yet : ’ |
| 15 | The Crofting Reform ( Scotland ) Act of 1976 did not go quite as far as this , but it did give the crofters the incontestable right to purchase their house and garden , and the optional ( though not incontestable ) right to purchase their land for 15 times the annual rent . |
| 16 | And yet as far as many practitioners were concerned it was revolutionary . |
| 17 | ‘ And may not be ever again as far as this company 's concerned . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ It 's OK — I know we 're still a breed apart as far as many people are concerned . |
| 19 | Finally , fears that fundholders would encourage referrals to private clinics to avoid a charge on their budgets seem to be unfounded , certainly as far as these aggregate data are concerned , and there was only limited evidence that fundholders were making use of their freedom to contract with private hospitals for outpatient services for NHS patients . |