Example sentences of "[adv] far [conj] [art] [noun] [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 Predictably , she was not sympathetic to the boisterous ways of a young teenager , though she did not go so far as a Mrs Dudley who complained to Bloomsbury House that one of her fifteen-year-old lodgers , Willy , had ‘ broken the beading on a wardrobe and had also broken a chair ’ , offences which most parents of healthy teenagers would have accepted as part of growing up .
2 The Secretary of State 's duty so far as the Lord Chief Justice and the trial judge are concerned , is only to ‘ consult . ’
3 The 1936 Act was certainly effective so far as the United Kingdom was concerned .
4 Legally , it would seem that nothing less would do , so far as the United Kingdom is concerned .
5 Of the twenty States listed in the Table , thirteen are parties to the more recent Hague Convention of 1965 which does not involve the abrogation of the earlier bilateral Conventions but has in practice superseded them so far as the United Kingdom is concerned .
6 In so far as the United Kingdom might wish to argue that it itself has the right under the Convention to retain requirements such as those at issue , reference can also be made to the court 's judgment in Commission of the European Economic Community v. Italian Republic ( Case 10/61 ) [ 1962 ] E.C.R. 1 , from which it appears that according to the principles of international law , a member state which , by virtue of the entry into force of the E.E.C .
7 So far as the La Pintada case [ 1985 ] A.C. 104 is concerned , that case differs from the present in the following material respects : ( 1 ) In the La Pintada case the plaintiffs were seeking to establish an extension of the common law that would apply in parallel to the statutory provisions .
8 As far as the Greater York area is concerned , objections have been lodged by Leeds City Council and by Montague Evans on behalf of a group of parish councils in Selby District adjoining York .
9 They make the 2600 kilometre trip regularly , transporting the GSi Astras from their base near Dungannon to GM Spain 's headquarters in Madrid and on to events throughout the country — even as far as the Canary Islands .
10 As far as the PowerPC RISC is concerned , IBM says the 603 — for notebooks and entry-level desktops — the 604 — for mid-range and multiprocessing desktops — and the 64-bit 620 multiprocessing part , designed for commercial systems , will be out at the end of next year or beginning of 1995 .
11 A further exploration with von Wissmann in 1939 took him from Aden , through the almost unknown highlands to the north-east as far as the Wadi Jirdan and on into Hadhramaut , the results appearing in his Aden to the Hadhramaut ( 1947 ) .
12 The outward journey was quite uneventful as far as the Wadi Tamit , a steep defile leading down the escarpment on to the coastal plain .
13 As far as the United Kingdom is concerned there is one major and very simple reason for this — exporting is necessary for our economic survival .
14 Consignments arrive at Burnt Oak every Thursday afternoon to crowds of eager bargain hunters who travel from as far as the Lake District and Newcastle .
15 Beyond the Ezbekia Gardens and as far as the Moqqatam Hills lies the medieval city , dense , ruinous and vital .
16 There is no danger of too many coaches spoiling the broth as far as the Hong Kong RFU is concerned though : Simpkin will have all the power he needs on the playing side .
17 Some swim into the Baltic , others pass through the Straits of Gibraltar into the Mediterranean and may even travel as far as the Black Sea .
18 Certainly , it is important to study bureaucracies as institutions in their own right , even if we would not go as far as the poet Alexander Pope who wrote :
19 Charles led an Austrasian and Saxon army personally down the Danube , and wasted Avar territories as far as the River Raab .
20 Comparable buildings are also visible from the air north of the defences as far as the River Nene , apart from the low-lying Billing Brook area .
21 As far as the Bass VI was concerned , these were mainly restricted to the addition of neck-binding and block position markers on the 21-fret rosewood fingerboard .
22 With some exceptions , the gentry and clergy readily accepted the Restoration in 1660 ; few went as far as the Reverend Dr William Oughtred who , at the age of 86 , ‘ died of excess of joy when he heard of the restoration of the monarchy ’ .
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