Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] far as the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The passing of the Victorian age , significant in so many spheres , brought no great change in this area ; there is no magic in the divide between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries so far as the scope of judicial review is concerned .
2 This is , of course , a time of smokescreens so far as the Masters is concerned and to hear some of the Europeans talk over the last few days , they appear to be in need of the psychiatrist 's couch as much as anything .
3 He 's been lucky of course , in that respect , in that he has had something to occupy himself over the last few months as far as the Gulf war is concerned , and in that respect , of course , I think I do n't I think it would be very difficult to fault him .
4 Yet they were clearly important considerations as far as the school was concerned .
5 There are really only two important considerations as far as the desktop publisher is concerned ; is it readable and does it look good .
6 Consequently , it has been closed off and is out of bounds as far as the Exhilarator goes . ’
7 This makes little difference to the behaviour of the companies so far as the production of policies and their conduct of business are concerned , but it does impose further constraints on the marketing of what are now clearly seen as forms of saving .
8 ‘ Portugal has completely fulfilled its obligations as far as the Deed of Declaration is concerned , ’ Mr De Silva said .
9 Behind the house , the railway embankment stretches straight and level in both directions as far as the eye can see , which is a long way .
10 A few stumps of the 1859 pier built by the company remain , together with lengths of the tramway which ran from the pier-head to the coalyard and stone bankers as far as the Brook .
11 While the Blackpool cars ventured over the ex-Company tracks as far as the Cabin , soon after the Gynn junction was completed , it was not until 1926 that double-deckers reached Bispham .
12 Suffice it to say that whatever the Court of Appeal 's finding there are likely to be significant procedural and resource implications as far as the administration of the complaints system is concerned and these will have to be explored during the coming year .
13 The new economic climate of the late sixteenth century brought advantages and disadvantages so far as the funeral was concerned .
14 Lonely white roads stretched across the great , wide moors as far as the hills .
15 Fleury was quite wrong in thinking that Miriam had been nourishing amorous ambitions as far as the Collector was concerned ; on the contrary , throughout the siege she had taken great pains not to allow her feelings to attach themselves to any individual man .
16 Yes , it was not so much a deletion as er a reduction in the numbers because we were very mindful erm in going through the requirement erm and not making significant changes as far as the U K was concerned and we needed to make some savings in cost if at all possible and therefore we carried out a very comprehensive review of all the items of role equipment such as drop tanks er pylons , explosive release units and those type of things which had been provisionally earmarked for a very high intensive and fairly long running conflict and it was felt that if we were to make some savings then it was a sensible balance to reduce those numbers on the basis that we could save some money in the programme but at the same time many of these items could be bought later on at relatively short notice , clearly not within a conflict but in the years to come .
17 All students are urged to pursue these performing studies as far as the acquisition of a Teacher 's Diploma of one of the recognised colleges of music and , in suitable cases , to proceed to a Performer 's Diploma .
18 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 .
19 Later generations of women have been catching up with their male contemporaries as far as the acquisition of paper qualifications is concerned .
20 I ask her if she has any special preferences as far as the telly is concerned .
21 Recent decisions from Europe give clear rules as far as the union 's concerned and I hope the Labour Party .
22 I will be adding my comments as far as the programme officers are concerned at the close of the enquiry .
23 Now what were the limits so far as the Vietnam war was concerned ?
24 Now what were the limits so far as the Vietnam war was concerned ?
25 What I 'm arguing for tonight is that given that we 've relatively recent boundary change , the people have just about got used to it , so by and large er it does n't seem to have huge numbers of demerits as far as the city is concerned and that we are now very , very close , as close as is possible to the norm for the average constituency size that we actually endorse the boundary commissions proposals and leave well alone and the second part of the motion merely says to a neighbouring authority , y'know , please in some senses be punctilious about not to suddenly decide to poke your noses into something way beyond your it 's not just a couple of parishes on the south boundary , a couple of parishes from from the north of their but actually way to our area but what candidly I can only see as a rather partisan er er
26 Right , now , erm , were going to have it on the actual headings as far as the minutes concerned cos we did n't deal with anything very much last time , but the next item on the agenda erm , is usually campaigns and Amnesty erm usually has one or two or more campaigns running on a particular aspect of it 's work or a particular country and there was some that really started maybe two or three years ago and which have continued erm in a smaller form since that time .
27 I remembered arriving in Cross the previous day on the school bus noticing the universal teatime re-fuelling of hundreds of fires and stores ; fresh puffing chimneys as far as the eye could see .
28 They went round the coasts as far as the Carthaginians allowed them to go .
29 What the local authority wished to do under the interim care order was assess the mother with these children and protect the children so far as the father was concerned .
30 This would appear to be the end of the road for transsexuals as far as the law is concerned .
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