Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [adv] far as [adj] " in BNC.

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31 The intention was that the substance of popular power be retained as far as possible .
32 ( d ) Party not to take advantage of his own wrong A lease will be construed so far as possible so as not to permit a party to it to take advantage of his own wrong .
33 All board work should be planned as far as possible when preparing the lesson , e.g.
34 It is too early to quantify this but I hope that as before any redundancies can be managed as far as possible on a voluntary basis .
35 Before the brigade of receptionists change shift they must ensure that all work has been processed as far as possible and that any messages or matters to be dealt with are brought to the attention of the evening shift .
36 If this has not already been done , the bone fragments should be separated , those of left and right bones being differentiated as far as possible .
37 In particular it wanted to ensure that British nuclear thinking , planning , targeting and developments as a whole evolved along lines which were compatible with and were harnessed as far as possible to fit in with its own requirements .
38 The action and control areas were carefully selected so that they were matched as far as possible in terms both of the number of referrals to the psychogeriatric service in the previous year , and of 1981 census data on the number of elderly people resident , particularly those aged 80 and over , the housing amenities of elderly people and the proportion of elderly people living alone ( see Table 2.1 ) .
39 Roman cities were planned as far as possible symmetrically on a grid system , although in the case of existing towns which they took over , or of hill sites , geographical problems made this difficult .
40 The administration of these services is decentralised as far as possible to conform with these areas in more accessible mini-town halls .
41 The tunnel is designed as far as possible to stay within the chalk marl but the alignment is constrained by the geometric requirements of a high speed railway including a minimum horizontal curvature of 4,200m and a maximum gradient of just under 1% .
42 For the trie , the current structure is searched as far as possible following the sequence of letters in the new word to be added .
43 It is therefore important to ensure that wording is agreed as far as possible during drafting meetings .
44 ACT carried back is offset as far as possible against the most recent period first and then the next most recent period , and so on until the claim is exhausted or the six year time limit is reached .
45 . The last one then , erm , C P is the completer. and their role is to see that the team is protected as far as possible from mistakes and they also maintain a sense of urgency within the team .
46 On many excavations this potential for error is reduced as far as possible by putting the workforce under the control of supervisors , who are in turn responsible to one or more directors .
47 But in 1938 he could only suggest that the manyattas be brought as far as possible under administrative control and the moran ‘ encouraged in any activities to maintain their manliness such as sports , road work , or their lion-hunting with spears ’ .
48 Although expressiveness is maintained as far as possible , it has to be sacrificed on occasions in order to insert new subjects .
49 Tied cottages , indeed , performed much the same function as the closed village in Victorian times , by enabling farmers to ensure that their expenditure on housing was limited as far as possible to guaranteeing their own labour requirements .
50 Government accepted responsibility for keeping aggregate monetary demand at a level sufficient to ensure full employment or what was considered as far as possible to constitute full employment ( an unemployment rate of 1% or 2% was considered acceptable ) , and the annual Budget was to be used as the main instrument of economic policy .
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