Example sentences of "[adv] far [conj] [adj] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As far as lay in her power , Winnie took precautions against violence . |
| 2 | Empathizing as far as possible with his hosts , the anthropological research worker seeks to seize the essence of life around him and to incarnate its animating spirit . |
| 3 | Where the reading skill required is that of interpreting such things as labels and road signs , they should pursue the normal targets and programmes as far as possible for their own safety , though they may need help where practicable to interpret these things through other than ordinary visual means . |
| 4 | If I have a choice between working for a nice man who let's me get on with my work in my own way and as far as possible on my own initiative and a difficult woman , then I 'm not going to hesitate , am I ? ’ |
| 5 | ’ Do I qualify as a nice man who lets you get on with your work in your own way and as far as possible on your own initiative ? ’ |
| 6 | But then I return to the knifeblade , flexing gently under my weight as I try to shift my centre of gravity as far as possible over my feet to protect the belay . |
| 7 | We accept the general proposition that people should rise to the top as far as possible through their talents and skills , not through wealth or influence or inheritance . |
| 8 | I devote myself to the modest task of first abstracting from the actual economic policy of the State , which is the resultant of the struggle between two systems of economy , and the corresponding classes , so as to investigate in its pure form the movement towards the optimum of primitive socialist accumulation , to discover the operation of the conflicting tendencies , as far as possible in their pure state , and then try to understand why the resultant in real life proceeds along one particular line and not another . |
| 9 | So Alice refused all offers of alcohol from the solicitous hostess in First Class , rejected the proffered magazines , donned her eyepads , and lay back as far as possible in what the airline liked to call her armchair . |
| 10 | The idea has its parallel in the ever-higher smoke stacks and ever-longer sewage outfalls which were designed to export pollution problems as far as possible from their source . |
| 11 | The idea has its parallel in the ever-higher smoke stacks and ever-longer sewage outfalls which were designed to export pollution problems as far as possible from their source . |
| 12 | Orphaned at a very early age , he is brought up ‘ by hand ’ by his shrewish sister , Mrs Joe , the wife of the village blacksmith , Joe Gargery , who loves him and protects him as far as possible from his sister 's tyranny . |
| 13 | Danquah 's evidence was somewhat defensive , even apologetic : Nkrumah felt that their intention was to distance themselves as far as possible from his pronouncements and actions . |
| 14 | No doubt my readers will have bigger and better examples of the persistence of facies which so fascinates me in this chapter , but I write as far as possible from my own experience . |