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

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1 subdivision of a county , the smallest area so far as local government is concerned , governed until 1894 by a body known as the Vestry .
2 Brownlow was felt by many in the group to be typical of government sponsored community economic development initiatives in that it was unrepresentative of local people in so far as local people felt excluded from the processes that were happening , even though substantial resources were being made available through the initiative .
3 As far as local government is concerned the extent and direction of change to which it has been subject since the 1960s are difficult to explain mainly in terms of the state itself .
4 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 ) .
5 which we can be sure , or think we can be sure , of biological connection is always very narrow ; but sociological kinship , which depends only on our willingness to slot individuals into particular verbal categories , can be extended as far as we like , or rather as far as local convention requires , and that may be thousands of miles and include many thousands of individuals .
6 In fact as far as local education establishments are concerned , I 've already had two enquiries from direct enquiries from schools saying , Are you available ?
7 Mr Curtis , who is also chairman of Darlington & District Business Club , said : ‘ As far as local companies are concerned the business link is an exceptionally good idea .
8 As far as local democracy was concerned , no evidence was clearly discernible either for an improvement or for a deterioration .
9 Other hospitals will also bring their rubbish to be burnt in Gloucester — the hospital says that it hopes that as far as local people are concerned waste wo n't now be a dirty word .
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