Example sentences of "[prep] as far [subord] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Playing out of defence , however , was about as far as it went , though in the closing stages they produced the most sustained attacking football of the afternoon . |
| 2 | Like a couple of chums , but that 's about as far as it goes . |
| 3 | That 's about as far as I 've got . ’ |
| 4 | I watch videos and read manga , and that 's about as far as I want to go . |
| 5 | I watch a lot of videos and read manga , and that 's about as far as I want to go . |
| 6 | In as far as they existed at all , relations with these countries were conducted as between tributaries of the Chinese empire . |
| 7 | The development of such trading centres is only relevant here in as far as they point to the direction in which economy was evolving in the sixth and seventh centuries . |
| 8 | The power of decision being committed by the statute exclusively to the housing authority , their exercise of the power can only be challenged before the courts on the strictly limited grounds ( i ) that their decision was vitiated by bias or procedural unfairness ; ( ii ) that they have reached a conclusion of fact which can be impugned on the principles set out in the speech of Lord Radcliffe in Edwards v. Bairstow [ 1956 ] A.C. 14 ; or ( iii ) that , in as far as they have exercised a discretion ( as they may require to do in considering questions of reasonableness under section 17(1) ( 2 ) and ( 4 ) ) , the exercise can be impugned on the principles set out in the judgment of Lord Greene M.R. in Associated Provincial Picture Houses Ltd. v. Wednesbury Corporation [ 1948 ] 1 K.B . |
| 9 | Yet not only had she not said anything but as far as he 'd been able to ascertain she had n't left him any lunch . |