Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [that] [adv] far as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mill , for all his apprehensions about public opinion and mass ignorance , never abandoned the basic democratic principle that as far as possible the people should govern themselves , and that therefore the ultimate objective had to be the maximum of direct , personal participation : |
| 2 | There is a powerful argument that as far as sexual behaviour is concerned , an area in which consent makes the difference between gross violation and shared pleasure , and in which physical proximity makes it relatively easy to ask about consent , the law should in effect impose a duty to enquire . |
| 3 | Seisin is a root of title , and it may be said without undue exaggeration that so far as land is concerned there is in England no law of ownership , but only a law of possession . |
| 4 | Well the only thing that as far as I 'm concerned erm er Richard is is when would you like to come on the training course ? |
| 5 | Auguste repressed the traitorous thought that so far as household management went , she would prove like Mr David Copperfield 's ‘ child-wife ’ Dora . |