Example sentences of "far as [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The Mamur Zapt ? ’ said Suleiman , surprised but , so far as Owen could tell , not disconcerted . |
| 2 | As far as West Germany is concerned the post-1945 reorganisation of the union movement into just 16 industrial unions made trade union structure in that country the least complex in Europe . |
| 3 | We could travel together as far as Doha and I would go on alone to Abu Dhabi . |
| 4 | You do n't go as far as Church Hill ! |
| 5 | Well you do n't go as far as Church Hill then . |
| 6 | but when the weather improves we shall , we shall go as far as Harrendle on the bus |
| 7 | And as far as Daniele was concerned it was just a business arrangement , nothing else . |
| 8 | Western Turkey and Sicily were initially affected , but by 1348 it had spread as far as Spain and Morocco . |
| 9 | As far as PR 's concerned , the Newleys are the kiss of death . ’ |
| 10 | All too soon as far as Maggie was concerned the waltz was over and they were clapping the band . |
| 11 | There was little chance of being on his side at all as far as Maggie was concerned . |
| 12 | So far as Rome was concerned , they were , of course , rebellious outlaws , to be hounded , harried and ruthlessly extirpated . |
| 13 | In his grandfather 's time the City had stretched only as far as Ch'ung Ch'ing . |
| 14 | The churchyard had emptied , the wedding-carriages had rolled away , taking their fragile gaiety with them to another world so far as Cara was concerned . |
| 15 | It was quite a crush but the first circuit — left on to Orchard Street and all the way round Selfridges , then Oxford Street as far as Marylebone Lane and then Wigmore again — went off without serious injury . |
| 16 | As far as Tallis is concerned , Lacan is a charlatan , the L. Ron Hubbard of psychoanalysis . |
| 17 | The girl had returned earlier , and prematurely , from the hunt , but was not around as far as Tallis could see . |
| 18 | She walked to the shops and back , sometimes walked through the back streets , once almost as far as Marcus 's flat ( but did not dare to go near it ) , avoiding the noisy King 's Road , and the embankment where Jack often walked with Alison , and as she knew , farther east where Ludens walked with Marcus . |
| 19 | The psychiatrist was called Mr Rose and was , as far as Marcus could remember from time to time , medium in height , medium brown in colouring and with a medium tenor voice when he spoke , which was infrequently . |
| 20 | As far as Marcus had been concerned she had succeeded too well , she admitted as she paid cursory attention to the long dark lashes fringing her clear grey eyes . |
| 21 | As far as Nutty was concerned it was the most deadly engagement she had ever contemplated , to be fought unto death . |
| 22 | Almost the most enjoyable thing of all is Lewis 's ability to find traces of the ‘ old world ’ — beliefs which go back to Isadore of Seville or Macrobius or even as far as Plato — surviving in the pages of Fielding , Johnson or Wordsworth . |
| 23 | Therefore , unless hiking with considerable fortitude , the only way to approximate their journey is to take the normal road up as far as Invermoriston and then continue on its south-western fork , the A887 , and in time it becomes the road — or so I presume — ; Johnson and Boswell travelled , the one cut by General Wade , straight across the rising land and emerging a little over half-way along the present road through Glenmoriston . |
| 24 | The former , whose work is well known throughout the North-East , has also toured nationally and as far as Poland . |
| 25 | The railway will come at least as far as Witney , you mark my words . |
| 26 | The tramway to Wallington , Carshalton and Sutton left the Mitcham line at Elis David Place at the western end of Tamworth Road , West Croydon , and after negotiating two rather sharp corners in Church Street and passing Croydon Parish Church , ran along Epsom Road , flanked on one side by the railway as far as Waddon Station . |
| 27 | In the centre and west , in Croatia and Slovenia , the military frontier held , but throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries these areas were the victims of frequent raids by marauding bands of Turks , who even penetrated as far as Graz . |
| 28 | In so far as Whitehall had considered these matters it had been vaguely assumed that a status quo ante would be established and the Dutch in the Netherlands East Indies , the French in Indochina , and the Colonial Office in Burma and Malaya would resume their rightful sway . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | As far as Trent could see , there was no reason at all . |