Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] far as [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The great train was standing there , faintly hissing , silver , immensely heavy , stretching away in both directions for as far as one could see in the gloom . |
| 2 | She could n't reach very far , but for as far as she could , the window was clean , bright . |
| 3 | For as far as she could see there were no secret , unsafe corners . |
| 4 | For as far as I could see , the surface was bare , grey dirt — rocky , bumpy , ridged , pitted . |
| 5 | Generally speaking , things have gone about as far as they can possibly go when things have got about as bad as they reasonably get . |
| 6 | Raising the sums which will be required in the name of global environmental security during the next 50–60 years ( which is about as far as anyone can reasonably try to foresee ) will create severe political and economic stresses . |
| 7 | He agreed that I had gone about as far as I could go in Moose Jaw , and together we composed a night-letter telegram to Gladstone Murray in Ottawa requesting a reply to my job application . |
| 8 | This is taking a sense of the particular about as far as you can go : man evolving as harmoniously with his landscape as the mayfly nymph evolved in harmony with its stream . |
| 9 | She took a step backwards , which was about as far as she could go in that hallway . |
| 10 | Lying under that police car just now , he knew he had gone down about as far as he could go , had expected to be caught , done for . |
| 11 | ‘ Trusts you about as far as he could spit , ’ Bicker finished . |
| 12 | I think er what this exercise today has shown us is that only about half the factors in H two er have a strategic dimension in so far as they would affect a choice between broad sectors around York . |
| 13 | Certainly there was the occasional spectacular apostasy from civilized values , as in the case of Jack Driberg , a Kenya Masai official who went native and then proceeded to a distinguished career as a lecturer in anthropology at Cambridge ; but on the whole the records , in so far as they can be relied on in such matters do not support this view . |
| 14 | such person shall as though he were the Policyholder observe fulfil and be subject to the terms exceptions and conditions of this Policy in so far as they can apply . |
| 15 | In the event of the death of any person entitled to indemnity under this Section the Corporation will in respect of the liability incurred by such person indemnify his legal personal representatives in the terms of and subject to the limitations of this Section provided that such representatives shall as though they were the Policyholder observe fulfil and be subject to the terms exceptions and conditions of the Policy in so far as they can apply . |
| 16 | unless he shall observe fulfil and be subject to the terms exceptions and conditions of this Policy in so far as they can apply |
| 17 | compensation payable to any person other than the Policyholder shall be paid direct to such other person who shall observe fulfil and be subject to the terms exceptions and conditions of this Policy in so far as they can apply . |
| 18 | This style also reflects the attempt by the political élite in Moscow to hand down to the provinces general directives which were as sophisticated as possible and based on Marxist tenets in so far as they could be understood at lower levels . |
| 19 | The transitive verb meant ‘ to make suitable ’ and when translated into human terms this indicated a solution to a number of perceived difficulties in the juvenile labour-market : at the very least it offered a safeguard against redundancy through technological change ; it provided a necessary companion for ‘ intelligence ’ , one of the qualities demanded by ‘ modern ’ industrial conditions ; and it seemed to imply a degree of social contentment , integration , and stability , which were important , if only in so far as they could serve as protection against the ravages of unemployment and , in extreme cases , unemployability . |
| 20 | Thus when determining what contracts fall within or outside the ambit of s 3 , issues of reasonableness , equality of bargaining power and the possibility of negotiation are in fact not very relevant , except in so far as they could move a judge to finding that terms were standard or not in borderline cases . |
| 21 | The section does not apply to contractual guarantees , as between a seller and a purchaser , as these are obviously caught under the appropriate sections of the UCTA relating to contracts , in so far as they should be caught at all ( see s 5(3) ) . |
| 22 | In so far as one can single out a starting-point in Althusser 's exposition , it is Marx 's critique of homo oeconomicus . |
| 23 | Others would admit , indeed require , that higher education should embody rationality , and in so far as one can believe or practice that , it becomes a cultural pattern . |
| 24 | They uniformly show young , narrow-shouldered , and in so far as one can see through the draperies , narrow-hipped , flat-chested women with long pale hands which have clearly never done a stroke of work . |
| 25 | Language is not just the means of communication in literature , but , in so far as one can say literature has a content , language in all its opacity is also the content of literature . |
| 26 | In fact , in so far as one can detect a firm line in his early Algerian policy , it was a policy which aimed to achieve association — i.e. cooperation between France and a more autonomous but not fully independent Algeria . |
| 27 | We also judge work performance by the quality of the product ( in so far as we can assess this ) and by the work style of the performer . |
| 28 | Seeing value in activities only in so far as we can conceive them retaining it when cut off from the main tides of human affairs , leads to a kind of preciosity and detachment from what excites most human beings which is ultimately impoverishing . |
| 29 | Personal honour will affect us in so far as we can believe in the man or woman who defends or loses it . |
| 30 | And in so far as we can use gender imagery for these things the Logos is a masculine principle … . |