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

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1 But it was still kosher as far as Albert Roger Quigley was concerned .
2 There are thousands of Wealden houses which survive , though few as early as Pattenden .
3 That having been said , it is true that attack is predicted by other postures only about half as well as escape .
4 The area between the Severn and Stroud is perhaps one of the more interesting as far as Gloucestershire 's industrial heritage is concerned .
5 None of us is pure as far as animal exploitation is concerned .
6 On the practical level , changes in social policies which reduce women 's claims to maintenance on men but do not recognise that changes in the division of responsibilities for caring between men and women within the family and between the family and the wider community are also required , may in the end be counter-productive as far as women are concerned .
7 My dancing partner and her parents turned up , a little bit embarrassing for me as my French was very limited as far as conversation was concerned .
8 My own preferences tend toward the simple and straightforward as far as switching is concerned .
9 The balcony was cool and the night was dark as far as Broadway , where a slab of writhing electricity changed the colour of all the window panes on the other side of the street .
10 The Lithuania match is meaningless as far as World Cup Group Three is finish his career with an unbeaten run .
11 The books of Roald Dahl are in the group of books that , due to their appeal to young readers , and perhaps their iconoclastic treatment of the adult world , are suspect as far as critics and prize panels are concerned .
12 I 've still drawn a blank as far as recording is concerned but I will be to my father .
13 I have nothing against the article which prompted this letter , I just feel it is so out-of-date as far as fluids are concerned .
14 There was little chance of being on his side at all as far as Maggie was concerned .
15 But she was n't any help at all as far as Evans was concerned .
16 Though the hoped-for explosion of educational television has not happened the effect has not been entirely negative as far as literacy goes .
17 In 1931 , however , they were all still comparatively innocent as far as publication was concerned .
18 Therefore , the Unfair Contract Terms Act is helpful as far as contracts for hardware are concerned but has little relevance for software contracts .
19 The issue of how to prove loss is a major stumbling block and is prone , under strict judicial interpretation , to render the section redundant as far as insider dealing is concerned .
20 Glad that her limited knowledge of Danish included an apology , she blinked away her tears , raising her eyes to the stranger 's face and freezing as completely as Lot 's wife as she found herself looking into the ice-blue eyes of the man she loved .
21 The motive power is provided by No 85013 as far as Preston , from where diesel traction will take over .
22 A Schools Council report ( 1970 ) has emphasized that the problem is not that this sort of pupil leaves school at the earliest opportunity but that as far as school learning goes they ‘ leave ’ at the age of about 12 .
23 The point is that as far as room bookings are concerned
24 Life is much less complicated as far as Building Regulations approval is concerned .
25 Mr Loxton 's evidence was shaky as far as time was concerned .
26 Russell Reynolds has achieved the highest fee income in the British market through adapting to the British way of doing things whilst retaining an American approach to marketing and business development ; it has achieved the former as effectively as Spencer Stuart and the latter as profitably as Korn/Ferry , to produce a combination more successful than either .
27 I followed the Awash as far as Bilen and then turned eastwards across the desert to Afdam on the railway .
28 Indications of these future difficulties became apparent as early as October 1935 when , during Jacques ' absence through injury , Lionel Elvin and Ernest Green combined to defeat a Cambridge Board proposal to discontinue the long-standing tradition that the new District Secretary should be appointed as Joint Secretary to the Tutorial Classes Committee .
29 Most such answers imply enjoyment , even ‘ I am interested in it ’ ( which at least suggests the prospect of happy hours of observing , reading , thinking ) ; but ‘ I am curious about it ’ is neutral as far as enjoyment is concerned .
30 During his time in the Army he had been exemplary as far as conduct in battle and general discipline were concerned , but he would not have been as traditional a British soldier as he was if he had n't stretched a principle or two during life in barracks .
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