Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun pl] as far [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The situation has improved substantially since then and girls have achieved parity with boys as far as staying on at school . |
| 2 | Gabriel followed the even pattern of pawmarks as far as possible : they carried his eye up to a distant knoll crowned with trees and wounded with great white scars of bare chalk . |
| 3 | This would appear to be the end of the road for transsexuals as far as the law is concerned . |
| 4 | This is not a satisfactory state of affairs as far as a religion is concerned , and when this condition is reached it is in decline . |
| 5 | There were exports , as early as the late fourteenth century , from Newcastle and Durham to places as far as Danzig , although Flanders and the Northern Netherlands were more common destinations . |
| 6 | The regular adherents of the congregation are about 100 ; the average attendance from 150 to 200 , and the number of members as far as can be ascertained about 25 , but this can form no criterion of what the congregation may become under a regular and thorough ministry . |
| 7 | What I 'm arguing for tonight is that given that we 've relatively recent boundary change , the people have just about got used to it , so by and large er it does n't seem to have huge numbers of demerits as far as the city is concerned and that we are now very , very close , as close as is possible to the norm for the average constituency size that we actually endorse the boundary commissions proposals and leave well alone and the second part of the motion merely says to a neighbouring authority , y'know , please in some senses be punctilious about not to suddenly decide to poke your noses into something way beyond your it 's not just a couple of parishes on the south boundary , a couple of parishes from from the north of their but actually way to our area but what candidly I can only see as a rather partisan er er |
| 8 | While such views are common doctrine in grammars as far as finite forms are concerned , it will be proposed here that a support or person is also present in the infinitival form of the verb , even though the latter can neither be predicated grammatically of a subject nor take any personal endings . |